Department of Biomedical Informatics Archive — Page 11 of 25
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June 15, 2022
Chancellor Faculty Fellows announced
Several highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise have been selected for the 2022 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. -
May 25, 2022
Study seeks to improve gender equity for liver transplantation waiting list
Women who need a liver transplant are more likely to spend more time on a waiting list, become too sick for transplant or die compared to men. To improve equity, a recently published Vanderbilt-led study suggests a sex adjustment to criteria for MELD (model for end-stage liver disease), which determines allocation of transplanted livers. -
May 24, 2022
DBMI summer program for MNPS high school students resumes
High school students in Metro Nashville Public Schools who are interested in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and computer science can once again get paid internship experience through a summer program within the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at Vanderbilt, thanks to initial funding from DBMI faculty member Daniel Fabbri. -
May 23, 2022
Pushing (anti-overdose) drugs
An automated alert to encourage clinicians to coprescribe naloxone for patients at risk of opioid overdose increased naloxone prescriptions per opioid prescription 16-fold. -
May 19, 2022
Malin recognized for pioneering data privacy research
Vandrbilt's Bradley Malin, PhD, has received the Lasting Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) annual Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy. -
May 13, 2022
Suicide prediction method combines AI and face-to-face screening
New Vanderbilt research is pointing to solutions for efficient clinical prediction of suicide attempt or suicidal thinking in adults. -
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.