Paul Govern Archive — Page 18 of 54

May 10, 2022

Report lays out solution for pandemic patient privacy

Health information privacy experts at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the University of Texas at Dallas and IBM have collaborated on a public case reporting framework keyed to the dynamics of pandemics.

teen depression study
May 9, 2022

Experts seek uniform patient confidentiality policies for adolescents

New Vanderbilt research outlines how laws concerning adolescent patient confidentiality and independent adolescent consent for health care services vary substantially from state to state, are often unclear, and often run counter to patient confidentiality standards advocated by medical societies.

April 21, 2022

When science spills onto social media

Vanderbilt researchers report that social media posts can offer insights into how the public feels about genome editing, with stances varying across platforms and differing from those of academics and policy makers.

April 21, 2022

Kalousová, Bolton receive Alzheimer’s Association awards

Vanderbilt’s Lucie Kalousová, PhD, and Corey Bolton, PsyD, have received research awards from the Alzheimer’s Association.

April 7, 2022

Computer eyeballs graft-vs-host disease

A machine learning algorithm identified areas of skin affected by chronic graft-versus-host disease on par with clinicians, opening the door to streamlining and standardizing this measure of patient response to therapy.

Leon Cai explains his poster to Sharon Kam (center) and Katherine Lee at the 2022 Alzheimer’s Disease Research Day.
April 7, 2022

Event highlights research on Alzheimer’s disease

The third annual Vanderbilt Alzheimer’s Disease Research Day featured numerous presentations and concluded with a keynote address by Suzanne Craft, PhD, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Wake Forest University.