Dr. Andrea H. Ramirez will present her research, Extracting Drug Exposure Epochs and Drug Response Outcomes from Electronic Health Records, at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2019 Annual Symposium on November 18. Her research was selected out of a record number of submissions to AMIA this year — over 1,200 across all categories! Dr. Ramirez is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The AMIA 2019 Symposium will be held in ...

Dr. Henry Ong will present his research, Extracting Drug Exposure Epochs and Drug Response Outcomes from Electronic Health Records, at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2019 Annual Symposium on November 18. His research was selected out of a record number of submissions to AMIA this year — over 1,200 across all categories! Dr. Ong is a project manager in the IGNITE Network. He also serves as a project manager at the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. The AMIA 2019 Symposium ...

The National Institutes of Health will fund clinical trials to assess the benefits, applicability and efficacy of applying genomic medicine interventions to improve management of diseases such as high blood pressure, depression and chronic pain. The trials are part of the second phase of the Implementing Genomics in Practice (IGNITE) Network with a total investment of $42 million over five years, pending the availability of funds. The trials will begin in 2020. Read more

The Implementing Genomic in Practice (IGNITE) Network was established in 2013 (RFA-HG-12-006, RFA-HG-12-007 and RFA-HG-13-004) to develop methods for incorporating genomic information into clinical care and explore the methods for effective implementation, diffusion, and sustainability in diverse clinical settings. The first phase of the network, IGNITE I, was a consortium of collaborative genomic medicine pilot Demonstration Projects designed to demonstrate the feasibility of, and develop methods for, incorporating an individual patient’s genomic findings into his or her clinical care. The next phase of IGNITE, IGNITE ...

There are about 15 million cancer survivors in the United States; about 400,000 of them are also veterans in the Veterans Affairs (VA) system. As more people survive cancer, their medication needs go beyond their cancer treatment. For veterans, VA physicians hope to bring more personalization to cancer survivorship plans for patients with pharmacogenetic testing. Read more on CAGPM website

The IGNITE I Network funded six genomic medicine projects. Through varied interventions, Lori Orlando, M.D., and team hypothesized that synergies across projects could be leveraged to better understand participants’ experiences with genomic medicine interventions. The team performed cross-network analyses to identify associations between participant demographics and attitudes toward the intervention, plan to share results, and quality of life. Their results were published online on March 20, 2019, in Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine.

Geoff Ginsburg, M.D., Ph.D., presented at the one-day scientific conference “Applications of Genomic Advances in Healthcare” on March 18, 2019, in Singapore. His presentation was entitled, “Achieving Impact of Precision Medicine Locally, Nationally and Internationally.” The conference featured invited speakers from all over the world, including the United States, Finland, Germany, Thailand and Singapore to share their knowledge and experiences on how genomics can be applied to populations, pathways and people.