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Our team is composed of a group of wonderfully intelligent and talented clinicians, statisticians, programmers, and project managers from the VA hospital, Brigham and Women\u2019s hospital, and Harvard School of Public Health.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Tianxi Cai<\/strong>
\nProfessor, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and VA Hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Email: tcai.hsph@gmail.com<\/p>\n

Dr. Cai\u2019s current research interests are mainly in the area of\u00a0biomarker evaluation; model selection and validation; prediction methods; personalized medicine in disease diagnosis, prognosis and treatment; statistical inference with high dimensional data; and survival analysis.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Katherine Liao<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor and Clinician, Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital (BWH) and VA Hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email: KLIAO@BWH.HARVARD.EDUDr. Liao is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Bioinformatics at Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician in the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital (BWH), and a Staff Rheumatologist at the VA Boston Healthcare System. She serves as Director of the VERITY Bioinformatics Resource Core, and co-directs the Cardiovascular Rheumatology Clinic a collaboration between the BWH Divisions of Rheumatology and Cardiology. At Boston VA, she co-directs the Applied Bioinformatics Core for Clinical Research within the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology and Information Center which serves nationwide VA investigators.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Tianrun\u00a0 Cai<\/strong>
\nHarvard Catalyst Profile<\/span><\/a>
\nAssociate Bioinformatician and Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital (BWH),\u00a0 Harvard Medical School and VA Hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email: tcai1@bwh.harvard.edu<\/p>\n

Dr. Cai has medical doctor background and he has been a researcher on Bioinformatic area at BWH and VA Boston Health System for a few years. He is now an Associate Bioinformatician in the Division of Rheumatology at BWH and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also a member of the\u00a0VERITY Bioinformatics Resource Core<\/span><\/a>\u00a0at BWH. Prior to coming to BWH, he was a practicing general surgeon in China. His research focus and expertise is in natural language processing (NLP) and clinical informatics. Incorporating NLP and machine learning techniques, he developed several software and generalized GUI tools for data extraction, patient recruitment, note selection and chart review to perform clinical outcomes research and disease classification.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Jiehuan Sun<\/strong>
\nPostdoc in Biostatistics, HSPH and VA Hospital<\/strong>
\nEmail: jiehuan.sun@gmail.com<\/p>\n

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\"\"Jie Huang<\/strong>
\nProgrammer Analyst, BWH and VA Hospital<\/strong>
\nEmail: jhuang34@bwh.harvard.edu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lauren Costa<\/strong>
\nProject Manager and Health Science Specialist, VA Hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email: Lauren.costa@va.gov<\/p>\n

Lauren has been working at the Boston VA hospital as a research project manager\/coordinator for over two years, and has worked with the BRIC team since she started. She graduated from Boston University School of Public Health with her MPH in Epidemiology in 2016, and also obtained her undergraduate degree in Health Science at BU.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Nicholas Link<\/strong>
\nData Analyst, VA Hospital<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email: Nicholas.link2@va.gov<\/p>\n

Nick is a data analyst in the BRIC team working full time at MAVERIC, a research division of the Boston VA Hospital. He graduated from Rice University in 2015 with a B.A. in applied mathematics and joined our team in August 2017. He has been working on NLP, MAP, and various other tasks the team is involved in.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Selena Huang<\/strong>
\nClinician and Research Fellow, BWH<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email: shuang@bwh.harvard.edu<\/p>\n

Dr. Huang is a rheumatology fellow at the Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital. She is currently pursuing a master\u2019s degree in health data science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.\u00a0 She is interested in disease phenotyping and risk prediction using machine learning methods, utilizing the electronic health record data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kumar Dahal,<\/strong>
\nProgrammer Analyst II, BWH and VA<\/strong>
\nEmail: kdahal@bwh.harvard.edu<\/p>\n

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Kumar is a Programmer Analyst at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital. He completed his MS in Computer Science from the University of Memphis in 2017 and joined Brigham in April 2018. He has over 5 years of experience in database system, particularly in US Healthcare Data Analysis. His main interests lie in the areas of Health Care Data Analysis and Management, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning.<\/p>\n

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Ashley Galloway<\/strong><\/p>\n

Project Manager, VA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email: ashley.galloway@va.gov<\/p>\n

Ashley Galloway,\u00a0MPH, joined MAVERIC as a project manager in June 2018, where she currently helps manage multi-site epidemiology research studies. Ashley received her MPH in Epidemiology and Social and Behavioral Sciences from Boston University School of Public Health in 2013. She has gained experience in clinical trial research, epidemiologic investigations, and coordination of a statewide public health program for newborn hearing screening for the state of New Mexico. Most recently, she was project manager for the Surgical Health Scientists Aligning with Patient Priorities Research Core within the Center for Surgery and Public Health.<\/p>\n

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Collaborators<\/span><\/h2>\n

MAVERIC, VA Boston: Kelly Cho, Anne Ho, Jackie Honerlaw, Petra Schubert, Laura Tarko, Jie Huang, Jennifer Hoffman, Daniel Posner, Yuri Ahuja<\/p>\n

Section of Clinical Science, BWH: Jacqueline Stratton, p30 project manager, and Sara Tedeschi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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