Faculty Position Openings: Department of Biomedical Informatics

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Description

The Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty candidates with expertise in the field of biomedical informatics. The Department is seeking and will consider candidates at all ranks. The successful candidate will have a track record or promise of impactful work across the broad domains within the field of Biomedical Informatics, especially in alignment with VUMC's missions of discovery, clinical service, education, and leadership. VUMC's core mission of personalizing the patient experience through its caring spirit and distinctive capabilities relies heavily on the work DBMI leads.

While we will consider candidates working across the range of biomedical informatics sub-domains, the Department is particularly interested in candidates who can advance its strategic areas, including:

- AI and Data Science

- Clinical informatics

- Digital and Consumer Health

- Informatics-Enabled Learning Health Systems

- Informatics for Ethical and Equitable Health

- Public and Population Health informatics

- Precision Medicine and Translational Bioinformatics

- Research informatics

Information about the Department :

Vanderbilt has made a substantial investment in biomedical informatics. The Department celebrated its 30thanniversary in 2023, and it has grown into the largest academic department of biomedical informatics in the world. DBMI is home to about 50 primary faculty members and more than 130 total faculty. DBMI emphasizes interdisciplinary and collaborative research with a focus on broad topics within the field, including health information technology development, clinical knowledge and workflow modeling, implementation science, machine learning and clinical decision support, biomedical data analysis (clinical, genomic, and proteomic), natural language processing, privacy, and security. DBMI's mission has complementary themes, including education, research, service, and a commitment to our colleagues across our own institution and around the world. Work. Among its faculty are multiple members of the National Academy of Medicine and more than a dozen members of the American College of Medical Informatics. DBMI faculty hold additional appointments in various departments, including anesthesiology, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, computer science, hematology and oncology, human genetics, internal medicine, pediatrics, and surgery.

DBMI faculty often create and maintain readily accessible, large-scale operational clinical information systems, through which new scientific hypotheses are tested and new technologies are deployed. VUMC has benefitted from several decades of experience with electronic health records systems development, deployment and optimization. This system, now the foundation of our enterprise architecture on which Epic EHR sits, also distributes data to a research data warehouse with clinical records on more than 3.4 million patients, of which a subset also includes deidentified and linked tissue and DNA samples.

In addition to a robust set of conventional decision-support capabilities at the point of care, VUMC was the first center to include genetic information in EHR-driven clinical decision support through the computerized provider order-entry system and electronic prescribing application to guide providers to dose selected medications according to a genome-informed model. These advances have allowed VUMC to be known as a state-of-the-art laboratory for innovations that support population health, as recognized by groups such as PCORI, CMS, AHRQ and the NIH, through ongoing funding to DBMI and School of Medicine faculty.

For more information, please visit the DBMI web site at

Information about Vanderbilt University Medical Center :

In its near 150-year history, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has built a strong reputation as a leader in medical education, research, and patient care on an international scale. The Medical Center is driven by discovery and the incorporation of new knowledge into patient care, education, and research. VUMC is committed to ensuring that investigators are competitive in funding and invests more than $100 million annually in internal funding to directly support biomedical research. VUMC's research has long been recognized for its contributions to medical advances, which is reflected in the amount of federal and private support received. The School of Medicine is consistently ranked in the top nationally in terms of NIH funding. In 2021, Vanderbilt received more than 3,100 external awards totaling $1,090,386,890. Awards include those from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Education and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. VUMC research funding has more than doubled since 2007 and career development funding has tripled during that time. The medical center now has more than 450 research laboratories and approximately 545 graduate students and 400 postdoctoral fellows. Paralleling the growth in research has been a clear commitment to the training and mentorship of physician investigators in basic, translational, clinical and population-based science. This commitment includes 100 NIH career development (K) awards. As a result of these training opportunities, approximately 75% of trainees across the institution remain in academic medicine.

VUMC is a private, non-profit, quaternary care teaching organization located in Nashville, Tennessee; a metropolitan area with a population of over 1.8 million. VUMC includes four large hospitals: Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital, Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital, and Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. VUMC serves as a principal referral center for physicians and patients throughout the Southeast and serves a diverse population in terms of socioeconomic status and education level. VUMC managed more than 2 million ambulatory visits, more than 56,000 surgical procedures, and more than 116,000 emergency room visits in 2019. The medical center is the region's hub for postgraduate medical education, with more than 1,000 residents and fellows trained in over 100 specialties. VUMC is ranked among the nation's best hospitals by U.S. News and World Report, having a Top-50 ranking in 9 specialties (cancer, cardiology & heart surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, ear, nose & throat, gastroenterology & GI surgery, geriatrics, obstetrics & gynecology, pulmonology & lung surgery, and urology). Through the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network, VUMC partners with 68 hospitals and 6,100 clinicians in Tennessee and five neighboring states to share best practices and bring value-driven and cost-effective health care to the Mid-South.

Qualifications

The successful applicant should have the background and experience working in the field of biomedical informatics. Applicants must possess any of:

• PhD in biomedical informatics, computational biology, health data science or a closely related field

• Advanced clinical training (MD, PharmD, or other clinical degree) and training or certification in biomedical informatics

• Candidates with other qualifications are welcome to inquire

Application Instructions

Applicants for this position should submit a cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information of a minimum of three references. The cover letter should describe the applicant's relevant qualifications and experience, as well as brief statements of research and teaching interests.

Worksite address

nashville, TN, 37247, US

Who can apply

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