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Informatics director assumes expanded role
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Mia Levy, MD, PhD, assistant professor of cancer research and director of cancer clinical informatics at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been named director of cancer health information and strategy.
In this newly created role, Levy will conceptualize and supervise the development of new informatics tools to support the next generation of precision cancer medicine, data analytics and cancer care coordination.
“What we want to do is create a culture of data fluency within the organization so that we are able to create and consume data in intelligent ways to support our operations and quality initiatives and deliver the best possible care to our patients,” Levy said in a press release.
Levy — who also serves as assistant professor of biomedical informatics and medicine — said it is essential that physicians and other specialists be able to access and understand the vast amount of data collected during patient care to help them devise the most appropriate treatment strategies.
“Mia Levy has exhibited tactical foresight regarding the challenges and opportunities in this new era of big data and has already developed strategies that are important for quality improvement,” Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD, professor of oncology and director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, said in a press release. “With Mia in her new role, [the cancer center] will be able to accelerate the collection of data and streamline its use as a learning tool for better patient care.”