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The 2021 Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program (VBISP) began on June 1 and ended on August 6, 2021. A total of 14 undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds conducted individual research projects with DBMI faculty as well as group projects to address vaccine literacy.  Throughout the internship, we shared profiles of each student. Read the profiles below!

The Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC) is back with its first workshop of this academic year! Please join VCLIC on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 to learn about Epic! This workshop will be co-led by Allison McCoy, PhD, and Aileen Wright, MD, MS. The first half of the course will focus on clinical workflows (led by VCLIC director Adam Wright, PhD), and the second half will focus on CDS and build capabilities in Epic (led by Dr. McCoy). 

Colin Walsh, MD, MA, FAMIA, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine and Psychiatry, was featured in a 2020 article in Harper's Magazine, titled "The Undiscovered Country: Can Suicide be Predicted?"

Groups of students in the Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program (VBISP) will be presenting their solution for the 2021 VBISP Design Challenge: Technology to Enhance Vaccine Literacy. 

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the July 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 Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC) published their first Annual Report for 2020-21. Click to read the report here and read a welcome letter from VCLIC's Director, Adam Wright, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI, below!

A gene variant that lowers white blood cell levels and is common in individuals with African ancestry contributes to unnecessary bone marrow biopsies, according to a study published June 28 in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

Applications for the 2021-2022 DBMI Catalyzing Informatics Innovation (CI2) program are now open. The CI2 program supports faculty in the development of early-stage, innovative and impactful informatics-based projects that have the potential to improve health, health care, or discovery. CI2 program awardees receive not only modest funding to pursue their proposed project, but they also join a cohort of CI2 Scholars who work closely with faculty and VUMC leadership. 

The application period for candidates who wish to apply to be Fellows of AMIA opened on May 18, 2021, and will be active through July 19, 2021 at 11:59 pm ET.  FAMIA was established by the AMIA board in 2018 in order to recognize members who apply informatics skills and knowledge within their professional setting, who have demonstrated professional achievement and leadership, and who have a sustained commitment to the betterment of AMIA. 

Wael Alrifai, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, and Chetan Aher, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, are the inaugural winners of the Physician Builder Award, sponsored by the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC). They received trophies made from Lego building blocks and gift certificates.