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    Cynthia Brandt, MD, MPH

    Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
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    Vice Chair for Education, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science

    Professor, Biostatistics

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    Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science

    Vice Chair for Education, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science; Professor, Biostatistics

    Biography

    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.

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    Education & Training

    Fellowship NLM T15
    Yale University (1997)
    MPH
    University of Washington (Seattle) (1989)
    MD
    Loma Linda University (1984)

    Board Certifications

    • Clinical Informatics

      Certification Organization
      American Board of Preventive Medicine
      Original Certification Date
      2014

    • General Preventive Medicine

      Certification Organization
      American Board of Preventive Medicine
      Original Certification Date
      1991

    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.

    Medical Research Interests

    Health Services; Health Services Research; Informatics; Medical Informatics; Medical Informatics Applications; Preventive Medicine; Public Health; Public Health Informatics

    Public Health Interests

    Health Informatics

    Research at a Glance

    Yale Co-Authors

    Frequent collaborators of Cynthia Brandt's published research.

    Publications

    2024

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    Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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      Department of Veterans Affairs

      Peer Review Groups and Grant Study SectionsReviewer
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      AMIA

      Professional OrganizationsMember
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      Department of Veterans Affairs

      Peer Review Groups and Grant Study SectionsReviewer
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      Journal of American Medical Informatics Association

      Journal ServiceEditorial Board Member
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      Department of Veterans Affairs

      Peer Review Groups and Grant Study SectionsReviewer
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    Locations

    • Section of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

      Academic Office

      100 College Street, Fl 9

      New Haven, CT 06510

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    • PRIME Center

      Academic Office

      VA Connecticut Healthcare

      950 Campbell Avenue, Ste West Campus

      West Haven, CT 06516

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