Position temporarily closed (2/26/2025) - Faculty Position Openings: Department of Biomedical Informatics

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this position is temporarily closed due to uncertainty around federal research funding. Please check back later. (February 26, 2025)

 

 

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: 

·               Clinical informatics

·               Research informatics

·               Public and Population Health informatics

·               Precision Medicine and Translational Bioinformatics

·               AI and Data Science

·               Digital and Consumer Health

·               Informatics-Enabled Learning Health Systems

·               Informatics for Ethical and Equitable Health

 

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 https://www.vumc.org/dbmi/.

   

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