Cynthia Brandt, MD, MPH
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Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
Vice Chair for Education, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science; Professor, BiostatisticsBiography
Dr. Brandt completed a general Preventive Medicine residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in 1989 and a post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by the National Library of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine in 1997. She is board certified in Preventive Medicine and Clinical Informatics. Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on issues related to the design, development and use of informatics tools in the domain of clinical research, as well as health services research.
Appointments
Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
ProfessorPrimaryAnesthesiology
ProfessorSecondaryEmergency Medicine
ProfessorSecondaryBiostatistics
ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Anesthesiology
- Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
- Biostatistics
- Center for Biomedical Data Science
- Center for Medical Informatics
- Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Emergency Medicine
- Emergency Medicine York Street Campus Faculty
- MHS-CIDS Program Leadership
- Pain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities, and Education (PRIME) Center
- Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS)
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale-Drug use, Addiction, and HIV prevention Research Scholars (DAHRS)
Education & Training
- Fellowship NLM T15
- Yale University (1997)
- MPH
- University of Washington (Seattle) (1989)
- MD
- Loma Linda University (1984)
Research
Overview
I have worked for years building informatics infrastructure for clinical research, working closely with many clinical research groups, and performing research focused on issues such as the management of clinical vocabularies used in clinical research databases and implementation of computerized clinical practice guidelines. I currently provide mentoring and training for both Yale national library of medicine informatics fellows and pre-doctoral students, and VA special informatics fellows. Research projects with fellows have included broad informatics domains including: clinical guidelines, clinical research databases, natural language processing, the design and application of informatics tools, personal health records, handheld computing, evaluation of informatics projects, and the design and use of electronic medical record data for quality, health services research and clinical decision support. Informatics is an interdisciplinary specialty and my past mentees have included emergency medicine, primary care and other types of clinicians, nurses and computer scientists. I also have extensive experience in health services research and currently have funded projects that use VA Electronic health record (VistA) and administrative and Corporate Data Warehouse data. I am co-leading an interdisciplinary team that received funding to develop the Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center, that provides national leadership and serves as a national resource in conducting high-impact pragmatic clinical trials on non-drug approaches to manage pain and other comorbid conditions in veteran and military health care systems.
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News
- May 21, 2024
Leeds Receives VA Research Award for AI, Housing Study
- May 08, 2024
Yale/VA Researchers Examine Gabapentin Side Effects
- November 17, 2023
Yale Psychiatry Researchers Awarded Grant to Establish PRISM Initiative
- October 13, 2023
Screening for Intimate Partner Violence Experience and Use in the Veterans Health Administration