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On June 1, 2021, faculty and staff from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System published a new study titled "High-Throughput Framework for Genetic Analyses of Adverse Drug Reactions Using Electronic Health Records." The study was published in PLoS Genetics.  The researchers presented a high-throughput framework to efficiently identify eligible patients for genetic studies of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) using “drug allergy” labels from electronic health records (EHRs).

Allison McCoy, PhD, FAMIA, Assistant Professor in DBMI, was featured in the new Women in American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) monthly newsletter.

Jessica Ancker, PhD, MPH, FACMI, Vice Chair for Educational Affairs and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, will be speaking at the upcoming American College of Preventative Medicine's annual conference on Tuesday, May 18 at 1:00 pm CT. She will be discussing her project, "Evaluating the Comparative Effectiveness of Telemedicine in Primary Care: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic." 

Stuart Weinberg, MD, FAAP, FAMIA, Associate Professor in DBMI & Pediatrics in the School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University, received the Special Achievement Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He was honored at the virtual presentation of the District IV Awards of Chapter Excellence & Special Achievement Awards on May 6. 

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the May 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 difference made to health care quality measurement by voluntary data sharing across a region's health systems and ambulatory care practices is examined in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association by Adam Wright, PhD, Allison McCoy, PhD, and colleagues.  Read the story in the VUMC Reporter here. 

Bradley Malin, PhD, FACMI, FAIMBE, FIAHSI, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Computer Science, has been appointed to the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Health Statistics of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through 2024. 

Michael Matheny, MD, MS, MPH, FACMI, Co-Director of the Center for Improving the Public's Health through Informatics (CIPHI), is seeking a non-tenured faculty member with expertise in developing and using clinical observational data models, supporting and executing informatics and health services research observational analytic queries for association and predict