| Department of Biomedical Informatics

Genetics and EHR's

April 17, 2020

Lisa Bastarache, MS, research assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics, and Tony Capra, PhD, associate professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Informatics, described the intersection of genetics and electronic health records during last week’s Cutting-Edge Discovery Lecture. For the full article, click here.

New center seeks to strengthen clinical informatics

April 17, 2020

The primary idea driving clinical informatics is that we should use computerized information systems to help people make better clinical decisions,” said Adam Wright, PhD, who joined Vanderbilt last August as director of clinical decision support and the new Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC). For the full article, click here.

VUMC study to use artificial intelligence to explore suicide risk

April 17, 2020

With the help of a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center will use computational methods to shed light on suicidal ideation and its relationship to attempted suicide, predict suicidal ideation and suicide attempt using routine electronic health records (EHRs) and explore the genetic underpinnings of both. For full article click here,

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Elizabeth Jasper, PhD

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Dr. Elizabeth A. Jasper is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Quantitative and Clinical Sciences in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). She received her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Iowa's College of Public Health in 2019. Dr. Jasper completed her postdoctoral research fellowship in the Vanderbilt Genomic Medicine (VGM) Training Program, funded by a National Human Genome Research Institute T32. As an early career faculty member at VUMC, she became a Faculty Scholar in VUMC's Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) and a Precision Therapeutics Academy trainee for the Vanderbilt Integrated Center of Excellence in Maternal and Pediatric pRecIsioN Therapeutics (VICE-MPRINT).