BioVU Celebrates 15 Years Supporting Personalized Medicine

Lindsey Guerin
June 21, 2022
In 2003, Dan Roden, MD, then director of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, imagined a large-scale biobank integrated with electronic health records to help doctors “personalize” medical care for their patients.

About the CI Fellowship Program

June 20, 2022
Vanderbilt’s Fellowship Program in Clinical Informatics is a two-year program with both didactic and rotational training. This two-year fellowship is open to physicians who are ABMS board certified or board eligible in a primary specialty (e.g.

Jonathan Brett Heimlich, MD, PhD

Jonathan
Heimlich
Clinical Fellow
Vanderbilt Genomic Medicine Training Program, Cardiovascular Medicine
2525 West End Ave.
jonathan.b.heimlich@vumc.org

Dr. Heimlich is a VGM postdoctoral fellow in DBMI’s CPM and a cardiovascular medicine fellow. He is also a member of the Harrison Society, VUMC’s physician-scientist training program. He is originally from Alpharetta, Georgia and completed his MD and PhD Training at the Medical College of Georgia prior to studying Medicine and Cardiology at VUMC. 

Brett joined Alex Bick’s lab in July 2022 and his work has focused on somatic mosaicism as it relates to cardiovascular diseases. He has been utilizing single cell sequencing techniques in combination with additional methods to gain novel insight into clonal populations of peripheral blood cells that may uniquely contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease. 

Chris Guardo

Chris
Guardo
Master's Student
Department of Biomedical Informatics
2525 West End Avenue
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
chris.guardo@vumc.org

Chris Guardo (he/him) received his Bachelor of Science in mathematics and statistics from Belmont University (May 2022). Chris is a part-time student pursuing a master's degree and is an Associate Statistical Analyst in Wei-Qi Wei's lab. 

Assessment of a Naloxone Coprescribing Alert for Patients at Risk of Opioid Overdose

Paul Govern
May 25, 2022
The drug naloxone can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose. In 2016 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that clinicians prescribing opioids for chronic pain consider coprescribing naloxone in patients with higher opioid dosages, a history of substance use disorder or overdose, or a concurrent benzodiazepine prescription. 

Brad Malin Received Lasting Research Award for Pioneering Data Privacy Research

Paul Govern
May 25, 2022
Bradley Malin, PhD, Accenture  Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received the Lasting Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) annual Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY). The award was presented April 25 at CODASPY, held this year in Hanover, Maryland.

Experts Seek Uniform Patient Confidentiality Policies for Adolescents. Study by Trent Rosenbloom, Jessica Ancker et al

Paul Govern
May 9, 2022
When it comes to health care for adolescents, patient autonomy and parental responsibility are at times forced into opposition, and when adolescent patients in the U.S. seek care for sensitive issues — sexually transmitted infections, mental health problems, drug use, contraception, etc. — the health care team’s ability to render treatment without involving a parent will depend on which jurisdiction they’re in.

Michael Matheny & Sharidan Parr Elected to 2022 Class of AMIA Fellows

Mia Garchitorena
May 3, 2022
Two Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty are among a group of 92 fellows who were inducted into the 2022 Class of Fellows of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). The honorary program of AMIA members recognizes professional achievements in the application of information science to serve clinical teams and biomedical research. The fellows will be inducted at the AMIA 2022 Clinical Informatics Conference in Houston in May 2022. The two new fellows of AMIA from VUMC are:
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