Peter Embí to Help Steer National AI Code of Conduct Initiative
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is launching a three-year initiative
DBMI Digest June 2023 Issue—Now Available!
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
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.
Introducing VUMC's "On the Horizon" Town Hall Series ft. DBMI—6/22/23
On the Horizons Town Hall: "Advancing Clinical Data Assets and New Tools for Research Discovery"
Featuring DBMI's Peter Embi, Paul Harris & Travis Osterman
Date/Time: Thursday, June 22 from 10:00-11:00 am CT
Location: Microsoft Teams (live)
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.
DBMI Digest May 2023 Issue—Now Available!
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the May 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.
Nominations for Student Academic Award & Citizenship/Service Award Due 6/9/23!
DBMI is accepting nominations for our two student awards until June 9, 2023!
The Academic Award recognizes excellence in academic scholarship and research. The Citizenship and Service Award recognizes contributions to the DBMI community.
Present Your Science's Melissa Marshall Presentation Coaching—6/29/23
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FINAL DBMI Seminar & Research Colloquium This Week (5/1): Jesse Ehrenfeld & Bill Stead
WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023
12:00 - 1:00 PM CT
Event Type: DBMI + Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC) Seminar
Title: "Reducing Provider Burnout and Supporting Provider Well-Being"
DBMI Digest April 2023 Issue—Now Available!
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the April 2023 DBMI Digest here.