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Vanderbilt names registry medical director
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Jeremy Warner, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine and biomedical informatics, has been appointed medical director of the Vanderbilt Cancer Registry at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
The Vanderbilt Cancer Registry — composed of 90,000 case histories — tracks the number of new cancer patients each year, the type of cancer at diagnosis, the state and county of residence, and the health care outcomes for each patient.
In this recently established role, Warner will connect present and forthcoming electronic medical record systems to classify and develop new informatics methods to enhance the accuracy and timeliness of the data collection process. He also will evaluate challenging cancer diagnoses.
“Cancer registrars serve a vital and sometimes unrecognized role in the curation and abstraction of data relating to cancer patients diagnosed or treated at Vanderbilt,” Warner said in a press release. “I look forward to working with the registrars, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center operations and cancer researchers to make the very most that we can from this invaluable data source.”
Warner joined Vanderbilt in 2012. He previously completed his fellowship in hematology and oncology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.