Ted Melnick, MD, MHS
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)Cards
Additional Titles
Section Chief for Research, Emergency Medicine
Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
Publications Overview
- 98 Publications
- 2,391 Citations
- 62 Yale Co-Authors
ACCELERATE Lab
Additional Titles
Section Chief for Research, Emergency Medicine
Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
Publications Overview
- 98 Publications
- 2,391 Citations
- 62 Yale Co-Authors
ACCELERATE Lab
Additional Titles
Section Chief for Research, Emergency Medicine
Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
Publications Overview
- 98 Publications
- 2,391 Citations
- 62 Yale Co-Authors
ACCELERATE Lab
About
Titles
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Biostatistics (Health Informatics)
Section Chief for Research, Emergency Medicine; Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship; Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
Biography
Dr. Melnick is a national leader in emergency medicine and clinical informatics research, with expertise in designing, implementing, and evaluating digital tools that improve care delivery. His work focuses on leveraging electronic health records (EHRs) and clinical decision support systems to enhance clinical workflows and patient outcomes. He is Principal Investigator of the ADAPT project, a five-year R33 award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, now in its third year, evaluating a multicomponent clinical decision support intervention to improve treatment for opioid use disorder in emergency settings. He also leads a multi-year collaboration with the American Medical Association to develop and implement national EHR use measures that better capture the clinical experience and support system-level transformation.
Dr. Melnick serves as Research Section Chief in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He is Program Director for the Yale/VA Clinical Informatics Fellowship and is double board-certified in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Informatics. He practices clinically at Yale New Haven Hospital’s York Street and Shoreline campuses and is deeply engaged in mentoring faculty, fellows, residents, and students in high-impact health services and informatics research.
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Appointments
Emergency Medicine
Associate Professor on TermPrimaryBiomedical Informatics & Data Science
Associate Professor on TermSecondaryBiostatistics
Associate Professor on TermSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
- Biostatistics
- Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics
- Emergency Medicine
- Emergency Medicine York Street Campus Faculty
- Melnick Informatics Lab
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Medicine
- Yale School of Public Health
- Yale-BI Biomedical Data Science Fellowship
Education & Training
- MHS
- Yale University School of Medicine, Clinical Informatics (2014)
- Health Research and Health Policy Training Associate
- Yale School of Medicine (2014)
- Chief Resident
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine (2008)
- Resident
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine (2008)
- Intern
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine (2005)
- MD
- Georgetown University School of Medicine (2004)
- BA
- Williams College (1999)
Research
Overview
Medical Research Interests
ORCID
0000-0002-6509-9537- View Lab Website
ACCELERATE Lab
Research at a Glance
Yale Co-Authors
Publications Timeline
Research Interests
Gail D'Onofrio, MD, MS
Hyung Paek, MD, MSEE
Arjun Venkatesh, MD, MBA, MHS
James Dziura, MPH, PhD
Long H. Tu, MD, PhD
Amit Mahajan, MD
Electronic Health Records
Publications
2025
The Effect of Ambient Artificial Intelligence Scribes on Trainee Documentation Burden.
Wright DS, Kanaparthy N, Melnick ER, Levy DR, Huot SJ, Hsiao A, Schwamm L, Ong SY. The Effect of Ambient Artificial Intelligence Scribes on Trainee Documentation Burden. Appl Clin Inform 2025 PMID: 40602775, DOI: 10.1055/a-2647-1142.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchBoarding in Emergency Department Hallways Circa 2025: Why Older Adult Patients Deserve Better
Pines J, Ratwani R, Melnick E. Boarding in Emergency Department Hallways Circa 2025: Why Older Adult Patients Deserve Better. Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society 2025 PMID: 40553078, DOI: 10.1111/jgs.19602.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricHealth Services Usage in Patients Receiving Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder or Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain: Retrospective Cohort Study
Savitz S, Stevens M, Nath B, D'Onofrio G, Melnick E, Jeffery M. Health Services Usage in Patients Receiving Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder or Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain: Retrospective Cohort Study. JMIR Formative Research 2025, 9: e66596. PMID: 40537088, DOI: 10.2196/66596.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsIncidence rate ratiosLong-term opioid therapyIn-person careMental illness cohortOpioid use disorderIn-personTelemedicine visitsChronic painPain medicineOpioid therapyEmergency medicineMental healthFamily practiceHealth service usageChronic opioidsPercentage of visitsIn-Person VisitsIn-person treatmentPoor outcomeAdministrative claims dataUse disorderMedicare Advantage patientsOptumLabs Data WarehouseVulnerable patient populationCare deliveryDiagnostic yield of an abbreviated MRI protocol in the evaluation of dizziness in the emergency department, a single institutional experience
Shareef F, Tu L, Neupane A, Siddique Z, Joshi R, Melnick E, Wira C, Mahajan A. Diagnostic yield of an abbreviated MRI protocol in the evaluation of dizziness in the emergency department, a single institutional experience. Emergency Radiology 2025, 1-10. PMID: 40471503, DOI: 10.1007/s10140-025-02349-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAbbreviated MRI protocolDiagnostic yieldIntracranial pathologyEmergency departmentAcute findingsMRI protocolEvaluation of dizzinessMethodThis retrospective studyDetecting intracranial pathologySignificant intracranial pathologyAxial DWIAxial FLAIRProtocol MRIAbbreviated protocolSupratentorial pathologySWI sequencesMRI findingsRetrospective studyUrgent care settingsAdult patientsCentral etiologyAcute dizzinessInfratentorial siteInstitutional experienceInfarct characteristicsPredicting Agitation Events in the Emergency Department Through Artificial Intelligence
Wong A, Sapre A, Wang K, Nath B, Shah D, Kumar A, Faustino I, Desai R, Hu Y, Robinson L, Meng C, Tong G, Bernstein S, Yonkers K, Melnick E, Dziura J, Taylor R. Predicting Agitation Events in the Emergency Department Through Artificial Intelligence. JAMA Network Open 2025, 8: e258927. PMID: 40332935, PMCID: PMC12059975, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.8927.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsED visitsEmergency departmentAgitation eventsElectronic health record dataArea under the receiver operating characteristic curvePatient-centered careHealth service utilizationPrimary outcomeHealth record dataUrban health systemED visit dataMode of arrivalPrevention of agitationOutcome of agitationDiverse patient populationsRestraint ordersCross-sectional cohortService utilizationVital signsED sitesHealth systemMain OutcomesRestraint eventsRange of predicted probabilitiesVisit dataDisentangling informing participants from obtaining their consent
O'Rourke P, Ali J, Carrithers J, Magnus D, Wilfond B, Bull S, Dember L, D'Onofrio G, Goldman J, Ho P, Melnick E, Staman K, Tulsky J, Vazquez M, Volandes A, Wendler D. Disentangling informing participants from obtaining their consent. Learning Health Systems 2025 DOI: 10.1002/lrh2.70014.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsResearch consentParticipants' understandingContext of routine careStudy team membersPragmatic clinical trialsContext of trialsRoutine careConsentWaiverParticipant consentParticipant engagementResearch participantsEthical analysisTeam membersSignificant riskInstitutional review boardParticipantsParticipants' abilityReview boardCommunicating informationTrialsRegulatory criteriaRiskMonitoring in pragmatic trials lessons from the NIH pragmatic trials collaboratory
Curtis L, Morain S, O'Rourke P, Staman K, Jarvik J, Cheville A, Dailey D, Sluka K, Heagerty P, Melnick E, Chakraborty H, Tulsky J, Volandes A, Simon G. Monitoring in pragmatic trials lessons from the NIH pragmatic trials collaboratory. Contemporary Clinical Trials 2025, 152: 107866. PMID: 40015598, PMCID: PMC12087796, DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2025.107866.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricAdaptive decision support for addiction treatment to implement initiation of buprenorphine for opioid use disorder in the emergency department: protocol for the ADAPT Multiphase Optimization Strategy trial
Iscoe M, Hooper C, Levy D, Buchanan L, Dziura J, Meeker D, Taylor R, D’Onofrio G, Oladele C, Sarpong D, Paek H, Wilson F, Heagerty P, Delgado M, Hoppe J, Melnick E. Adaptive decision support for addiction treatment to implement initiation of buprenorphine for opioid use disorder in the emergency department: protocol for the ADAPT Multiphase Optimization Strategy trial. BMJ Open 2025, 15: e098072. PMID: 39979056, PMCID: PMC11842997, DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-098072.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsClinical decision supportMultiphase optimization strategyOpioid use disorderEmergency departmentInitiation of buprenorphineClinical decision support usePlan-Do-Study-Act cyclesLearning health system approachPlan-Do-Study-ActClinical decision support toolHealth system approachAdaptive decision supportUse disorderDecision supportAddiction treatmentPeer-reviewed journalsBuprenorphine initiationOpioid use disorder treatment initiationOpioid-related mortalityIntervention componentsED settingClinician feedbackInstitute Institutional Review BoardTreatment of opioid use disorderParticipating sitesImputation of missing aggregate EHR audit log data across individual and multiple organizations
Li H, Apathy N, Holmgren A, Melnick E, McDougal R. Imputation of missing aggregate EHR audit log data across individual and multiple organizations. Journal Of Biomedical Informatics 2025, 163: 104805. PMID: 39978430, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2025.104805.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsAudit log dataMulti-site organizationLog dataSize of organismsMachine learning methodsOrgan sizeNon-time-seriesLearning methodsIn-house implementationEHR vendorsSmall-sized organismsTime series methodsSmall organismsStrategy efficacyEvaluate performanceMissing percentageTeaching statusMachineModel selectionXGBoostSubgroup criteriaImputation processOrganizationIndividual organsVariable classificationInterventions to Mitigate EHR and Documentation Burden in Health Professions Trainees: A Scoping Review
Levy D, Rossetti S, Brandt C, Melnick E, Hamilton A, Rinne S, Womack D, Mohan V. Interventions to Mitigate EHR and Documentation Burden in Health Professions Trainees: A Scoping Review. Applied Clinical Informatics 2025, 16: 111-127. PMID: 39366661, PMCID: PMC11798655, DOI: 10.1055/a-2434-5177.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsEHR burdenElectronic health recordsHealth professions traineesExperiences of interventionsHealth professionalsDocumentation burdenInpatient settingExperienced health professionalsBurden modelPeer-reviewed studiesQuasi-experimental designDesigning new interventionsShift handoffsEHR workflowPhysician traineesPerspective of interventionHealth recordsPRISMA-ScRScoping ReviewLiving tasksConcept clarificationTeam communicationTrainee experienceWorkflow modelNew interventions
Academic Achievements & Community Involvement
Honors
honor Young Investigator Award
05/17/2017National AwardSociety for Academic Emergency MedicineDetailsUnited Stateshonor Plenary Session
05/13/2015National AwardSociety for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Annual MeetingDetailsUnited Stateshonor AHRQ Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award (K08)
05/01/2013National AwardAgency for Healthcare Research & QualityDetailsUnited Stateshonor Service to Section Award
09/01/2010National AwardAmerican College of Emergency PhysiciansDetailsUnited Stateshonor Informatics Section Grant
07/01/2008National AwardAmerican College of Emergency PhysiciansDetailsUnited States
Clinical Care
Overview
Ted Melnick, MD, specializes in emergency medicine and clinical informatics, using technology and data to improve healthcare delivery.
As an associate professor of emergency medicine and biostatistics (health informatics) at Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Melnick is working to improving the use of electronic health records (EHR) and has contributed to research on the relationship between EHR use and physician burnout. He also works on projects to help start treatment for opioid use disorder in emergency settings.
Dr. Melnick received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Clinical Specialties
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Board Certifications
Clinical Informatics
- Certification Organization
- AB of Preventive Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2016
Emergency Medicine
- Certification Organization
- AB of Emergency Medicine
- Original Certification Date
- 2009
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