Author: Paul Govern
Immune cell profiles may guide flu vaccine timing in pediatric stem cell transplant patients
Mar. 14, 2024—A new study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers has identified key immune cell populations that predict how well pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) recipients will respond to the influenza vaccine.
VUMC mourns loss of former Dermatology leader George Stricklin
Mar. 12, 2024—Longtime Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty member George Stricklin, MD, PhD, died Feb. 28. He was 74. Dr. Stricklin led a distinguished career as a scientist, clinician, and faculty leader. He joined VUMC in 1988, also that year becoming chief of Dermatology at Nashville VA Medical Center. He would go on to become chief of...
Rosenbloom to chair scientific review committee at National Library of Medicine
Mar. 7, 2024—Vanderbilt's Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, on July 1 will begin a one-year term as chair of the Biomedical Informatics, Library and Data Sciences Review Committee of the National Library of Medicine.
Stroke symposium set for April
Mar. 4, 2024—Vanderbilt Neurology Stroke and Neuroscience Symposium will be held April 4 as a hybrid event, in person at the Hilton Garden Inn Nashville Vanderbilt Hotel and online.
2024 REDCap Fest available online
Mar. 1, 2024—Videos and slides from 2024 REDCap Fest, held online Feb. 21 - 23, are available for viewing by members of the Vanderbilt and Meharry Medical College research community.
Study finds more pleasant-sounding medical device alarms could reduce annoyance without compromising effectiveness
Feb. 29, 2024—A new study found that making medical device alarms more musical can significantly reduce perceived annoyance without negatively impacting the ability of research participants to learn and remember the alarms.
Study finds a role for AI in drug repurposing pipeline
Feb. 26, 2024—Vanderbilt researchers are using artificial intelligence to search for existing drugs used for other problems that might help patients Alzheimer's Disease.
AI aids efforts to cut nuisance alerts for health care teams: study
Feb. 22, 2024—A new study from Vanderbilt University Medical Center demonstrates the promise of artificial intelligence to help refine and target the myriad computerized alerts intended to assist doctors and other team members in day-to-day clinical decision-making.
New algorithms show promise for predicting bipolar disorder risk
Feb. 8, 2024—In a new study across three major U.S. health care systems, researchers developed and tested algorithms to predict who will develop bipolar disorder.
Malow receives grant to mount sleep program for children with autism
Jan. 23, 2024—Vanderbilt neurologist Beth Malow, MD, has received a grant from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine to mount a community-based educational program for improving sleep in children with autism spectrum disorder.
Data haul improves immunotherapy response prediction
Jan. 16, 2024—Vanderbilt biostatisticians have developed an immunotherapy response model that outperforms existing predictive models.
Team uses COVID-19 to test automated acute disease profiling
Jan. 2, 2024—An automated solution for creating phenotyping algorithms, PheNorm, worked well to identify symptomatic COVID-19 cases in electronic health records, suggesting that automation could speed high-throughput phenotyping of acute disease.