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Adam Wright, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI, Director of the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC) and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, will receive the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics, given annually to an individual for contributions that advance biomedical informatics on the national or international level. He will be honored at the 2021 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium on October 30, 2021.

The American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) will present the 2021 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence to Randolph A. Miller, MD, FACMI, Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, during the opening session of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2021 Annual Symposium. AMIA’s Annual Symposium is October 30 – November 3 in San Diego.

Jessica Ancker, PhD, MPH, FACMI, and Kim Unertl, PhD, MS, FACMI, published a study in JAMIA titled "Guidance for Publishing Qualitative Research in Informatics."

The Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University is accepting applications from postdoctoral trainees interested in the field of biomedical informatics and data science. 

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the September 2021 issue here.  Each DBMI Digest features department & faculty announcements, awards & appointments, educational & HR updates, funding opportunities and more. Each issue also includes a profile of one of our faculty, staff, postdocs and students. 

The Vanderbilt Center for Effective Health Communication is hosting a 2021 Health Communication Research Forum on Monday, September 20, 2021 from 3:30 to 5:00 pm CT. The focus of the forum is to discuss new communication research funded by the Center and present an opportunity to network with other health communication researchers at VU/VUMC. 

The Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC) is hosting its second workshop of the year, "Data Resources and Analytics in Mental Health: Basics Workshop," on October 5th from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm CT.  Complete this REDCap form to sign up: https://redcap.link/MentalHealthDataBasics  Click here for more information! 

In intensive care units (ICUs), a patient's brain function status can shift from a state of acute brain dysfunction (ABD) to one that is ABD-free and vice versa, which is challenging to forecast and, in turn, hampers the allocation of hospital resources. 

Any digital health conference features its share of machine learning evangelism. Technology executives give fervent testimonials about its power to save lives and money, to predict episodes of severe illness, to help hospitals root out inefficiency.  This year's gathering of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) in Las Vegas was no different. But in between the glowing anecdotes, an aggressive counter narrative emerged: Machine learning needs a watchdog. 

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the August 2021 issue here.  Each DBMI Digest features department & faculty announcements, awards & appointments, educational & HR updates, funding opportunities and more. Each issue also includes a profile of one of our faculty, staff, postdocs and students.