(From this article) Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has been chosen by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to be the Data and Research Support Center for the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program, a landmark study of genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors affecting the health of a million or more people, federal officials have announced.

Mia Levy, M.D., Ph.D., the Ingram Assistant Professor of Cancer Research and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics was one of 23 fellows recently elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI).  The new fellows will be inducted in November in Chicago, during the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium.  The ACMI is an honorary college of elected fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics and who have met rigorous scholarly scrutiny by their peers.

(from this press release)   Researchers at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine have received a four-year, $4-million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a new center for the study of privacy concerns associated with the use of genomic information, the NIH announced today, May 17.

Beginning in Fall 2016, Vanderbilt University’s Big Biomedical Data Science (BIDS) Training Program will 1) provide matriculating PhD students with access to a diverse array of real big biomedical data sets, software tools, and applications at Vanderbilt (and interdisciplinary collaborations) and 2) integrate courses and faculty from across the institution to ensure that students are well-versed in the foundational competencies of computation, statistics, and biomedical science that are necessary to achieve reproducible success in this field. The program has been formed

Thomas Lasko, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics was awarded a 3-year R01 grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. The goal of this project is to use cutting-edge methods from the data science and big Data communities to provide rapidly interpretable visualizations of complex clinical data patterns that allow clinicians to quickly answer selected clinical questions that they face many times a day.

Federal officials with the White House and National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced today that Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will lead the Direct Volunteers Pilot Studies under the first grant to be awarded in the federal Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program.  A pioneer in Vanderbilt's precision medicine efforts, Josh Denny, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Biomedical Inforamtics and Medicine is the principal investigator for the effort, which is supported by a one-year grant from the PMI Cohort Program (NIH Award #1-OT2-OD-023132).

Dr. Nancy Lorenzi received the Five Pillar Leadership Award from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.  This award recognizes exceptional leaders who consistently model a balanced approach to leadership across the five pillars of excellence and the Credo.

Dr. Chris Lehmann, Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics, has been appointed by the U.S. Government Accountability Office as the first pediatrician to serve on the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee.