July 2024:
Alvin Jeffrey, PhD officially joined the DMBI primary faculty as an assistant professor on July 1st, 2024. Welcome!
Eric Tkaczyk, MD, PhD, FAAD received a five-year, $4.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the NIH to validate an AI technology for measuring skin changed in patients with chronic graft versus-host disease.
May 2024:
Congratulations to Jessica Ancker, MPH, PhD for being awarded the 2024 DBMI Outstanding Educator Award of the second DBMI All-Hands Meeting!
Likewise, congratulations to Scott Nelson, PharmD, MS for being awarded the 2024 Technology, Organizational Development and Evaluation (TDOE) Award at the Second DBMI All-Hands Meeting!
April 2024:
Colin Walsh, MD, MA received the Kevin B. Johnson Award for outstanding contributions to research on Friday, April 12. Congrats!
Alvin Jeffrey, PhD published the third edition of his Orientation book, titled "Staff Educator's Guide to Clinical Orientation."
March 2024:
Congratulations to Aileen Wright, MD, MS, who just received the notice of award for her K23 project “Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Clinical Decision Support for Preventing Hypoglycemia in Hospitalized Patients,” funded by NIDDK.
February 2024:
Ashley Spann, MD, MSACI received the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Hepatology Award. Congrats Ashley!
Ashley Spann, MD, MSACI also received the Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Career Development Award!
January 2024:
DBMI’s Laurie Novak, PhD, MHSA, Megan Salwei, PhD, Colin Walsh, MD, MA, Brad Malin, Sharon Davis, Adam Wright, PhD, Michael Matheny, Amanda Mixon and team, led by Peter Embi, were awarded funding from the Augmented Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare Initiative (AIM-HI) Coordinating Center at Kaiser Permanente for our project “Advancing Novel Approaches and Best Practices for Effective AI-Enabled Diagnosis using Randomized Trials, Algorithmovigilance, and Proactive Risk Assessment
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March 2023:
Congratulations to Aileen Wright, MD, MS, who just received the notice of award for her K23 project “Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Clinical Decision Support for Preventing Hypoglycemia in Hospitalized Patients,” funded by NIDDK.
Travis Osterman, DO, MS, appointed VUMC’s new Associate Vice President for Research Informatics!
April 2023:
Jessica Ancker, PhD and Adam Wright, PhD are part of a collaboration that received an R01 grant from the National Institute of Aging. In partnership with Vanderbilt University Medical Center, this mixed methods study will develop GEMRA - a machine-learning model designed to identify acute post-ED risk in older adults - into accurate, realtime, EHR-based clinical decision support. The goal is for GEMRA to inform ED-based risk reduction strategies for older adult diseases and vulnerabilities that can be under-recognized in conventional clinical practice.
Megan Salwei, PhD was selected as a 2023 NIH mHealth Scholar and will attend the NIH mHealth Training Institute summer (2023) at UCLA. Congrats Megan!
May 2023
Congratulations to Julie Bauml, MD and Aileen Wright, MD, MS for winning the 2023 Physican Builder Award, as part of the eStar Physician Builder Program!
July 2023
Colin Walsh, MD, MA was named to the 2023 Class of Fellows for the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI)! He is one of 24 fellows elected this year. They will be honored at MedInfo 2023 on July 9, 2023.
Siru Liu, PhD won the 2023 Vanderbilt Postdoc of the Year Award. It’s given to one postdoc each year for "excellence in research, scholarship or creative expression". Congrats!
August 2023:Travis Osterman, DO, MS Jonathan Wanderer, MD, MPhil
Congrats to Travis Osterman, DO, MS, and Jonathan Wanderer, MD, MPhil, for being named Associate Chief Medical Information Officers in HealthIT at Vanderbilt University Medical Center! As part of their new duties, Osterman and Wanderer will provide mentoring and guidance to HealthIT clinical directors in their operational IT efforts.
Michael Ward, MD, PhD, MBA is MPI on a $3 million implementation science R18 grant recently awarded by AHRQ. CCQIR co-investigators include Adam Wright, PhD, Asli Weitkamp, PhD, Stephen Gradwohl, MD, and Shilo Anders, PhD.
The project is titled "Development of SMART on FHIR interoperable clinical decision support for emergency department patients with pneumonia and pilot deployment into novel Epic electronic health record environments." Congratulations!
September 2023:
Allison McCoy, PhD was elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). Congratulations Allison!
October 2023
Siru Liu, PhD was selected as one of 30 rising stars in the field of medical research by STAT Wunderkind, a health sciences newsletter published by the Boston Globe! Read more about Siru’s feature here.
Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc & Lindsay Nelson were awarded a R01-equivalent for “Multi-level Initiative to Address Social Drivers of Health (SDoH) in Clinical Practice “as a competitive revision for grant funding the Southeast Collaborative for Innovative and Equitable Solutions to Chronic Disease Disparities (PI, Wilkins). Congrats!
This project seeks to understand the optimal approaches for capturing social drivers of health (SDoH) in clinical care processes and evaluate a multi-level initiative that collects and addresses SDoH among patients with multiple medical conditions including type 2 diabetes plus hypertension and/or hyperlipidemia.
Kevin Johnson, MD, MS received the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award for his project "Helping Doctors Doctor: Using AI to Automate Documentation & De-Autonomate Health Care"
Congrats to Siru Liu, PhD who was interviewed by the National Library of Medicine to discuss her K99/R00 project “Optimizing Clinical Decision Support Alerts Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence” on camera! Adam Wright, PhD and Allison McCoy, PhD and Peter Embi were happy to be interviewed as well!
Laurie Novak, PhD and Peter Embí, MD, MS were awarded a grant from the Moore Foundation, working with collaborators from Duke AI Health, the University of Iowa, and the Coalition for Health AI network. The grant aims to support the creation and initial validation of standardized benchmarking tools to enable health systems to internally identify strengths and weaknesses for the development and deployment of AI technology. Congratulations!
November 2023
Eddie Qian, MD, MS, Adam Wright, PhD, and team published their ACORN Randomized Clinical Trial “Cefepime vs Piperacillin-Tazobactam in Adults Hospitalized With Acute Infection” in JAMA. This paper was covered in the VUMC Reporter and in NEJM’s Journal Watch here.
Laurie Novack, PhD, MHSA was featured in the VUMC reporter for being part of the VUMC team, in collaboration with Duke University School of Medicine for being awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the project “Measuring Artificial Intelligence (AI) Maturity in Healthcare Organizations.”
2023 AMIA Annual Symposium Recap
Allison McCoy, PhD, Siru Liu, PhD & Adam Wright, PhD received an honorable mention for their paper “Using AI-Generated Suggestions from ChatGPT to Optimize Clinical Decision Support” and VCLIC’s Clickbusters was also mentioned!
Jessica Ancker, MPH, PhD, FACMI co-authored a paper “Beyond Mathematics, Statistics, and Programming: Data Science, Machine learning, and AI Competencies and Curricula for Clinicians, Informaticians, Science journalists, and Researchers” which was mentioned in the Year in Review!
“The Impact of Clinical Decision Support on Health Disparities and the Digital Divide”, a paper by Brian Douthit, PhD, Allison McCoy, PhD and Scott Nelson, PharmD, MS was also mentioned
Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, MPH, MS had the paper “ChatGPT and the Clinical Informatics Board Examination: The End of Unproctored Maintenance of Certification?” mentioned as well!
Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, FACMI received an AMIA 2023 Leadership Award for his work with 25x5!
Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, MPH, MS and Tom Reese, PharmD, PhD were named as part of the 2024 class of 84 Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA) in the FAMIA Applied Informatics Recognition Program!
December 2023
Congratulations to Allison McCoy, PhD for being newly promoted to Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics! We are so excited to see the continued impact and innovations you will bring in your new role!
Laurie Novak, PhD, Colin Walsh, MD, MA and Megan Salwei, PhD are co-principal investigators on a three-year grant awarded to Peter Embi from Kaiser Permanente sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the research project “Advancing Novel Approaches and Best Practices for Effective AI-Enabled Diagnosis using Randomized Trials, Algorithmovigilance, and Proactive Risk Assessment.” Congrats!