Derek Baughman, MD

Derek
Baughman
MS Student, Applied Clinical Informatics
derek.j.baughman@vanderbilt.edu

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Currently, I serve active duty with the USAF as the medical director of primary care at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, LA. I also help lead a pilot program at WellSpan Health, providing part-time telemedicine and asynchronous care. I greatly enjoy my relationships with researchers across the country and continue working on telehealth and value-based care projects. After obtaining ABPM certification, I hope to lead healthcare operations in a hybrid environment involving the federal, private, and research sectors.

Bassim El-Sabawi, MD

Bassim
El-Sabawi
Clinical Fellow, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Vanderbilt Genomic Medicine Training Program
bassim.el-sabawi@vumc.org

Dr. El-Sabawi is a VGM postdoctoral fellow and a cardiovascular medicine fellow. He is originally from San Diego, CA. He completed his MD training at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and medical residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. 

His prior work has focused on optimizing outcomes of transcatheter interventions and structural heart diseases. He is now focused on identifying whether proteomic signatures of myocardial remodeling/dysfunction are present early in aortic stenosis before traditional clinical thresholds for intervention. If present, this may point to known/novel pathways contributing to heart failure in aortic stenosis patients and provide an early molecular barometer for clinical surveillance and personalized timing for aortic valve replacement. 

Vanderbilt Mourns Loss of Pediatric Informatician Stuart Weinberg

July 25, 2023
Stuart T. Weinberg, MD, an innovator and advocate in the field of pediatric informatics with expertise in clinical reminders, web services, personal health records, immunization registries and clinical decision support at the provider, institutional and national levels, died on July 18 in Franklin, Tennessee. He was 63.

DBMI Digest June 2023 Issue—Now Available!

June 30, 2023
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the June 2023 DBMI Digest 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. 

VUMC Statement on the Use of Generative AI

June 27, 2023
The recent public release of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that are capable of creating new, realistic content from training data, like OpenAI’s latest multimodal large language model GPT-4, has generated a lot of excitement.

Protiva Rahman, PhD

Protiva
Rahman
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
protiva.rahman@vumc.org

Protiva Rahman, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics Department at the University of Florida, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at VUMC. Previously Dr. Rahman completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Informatics at VUMC and received her PhD in Computer Science from the Ohio State University in 2020. 

Dr. Rahman is interested in building tools to democratize data science, with a focus on empowering domain experts in healthcare. Her research spans the disciplines of data science, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction in domains of infectious diseases and cancer. Her overarching goal is to bridge the gap between data and domain experts. To this end, her PhD thesis presented a framework to amplify expertise in clinical data pipelines while her postdoctoral work aimed to automate data extraction from unstructured texts such as EHR notes and biomedical literature using NLP. 

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