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Cynthia Brandt, MD, MPH

Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
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Appointments

Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
Primary
Anesthesiology
Secondary

Additional Titles

Vice Chair for Education, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science

Professor, Biostatistics

About

Titles

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.

Appointments

Other Departments & Organizations

  • Anesthesiology
  • Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
  • Biostatistics
  • Center for Biomedical Data Science
  • 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)

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

  • activity

    Department of Veterans Affairs

    Peer Review Groups and Grant Study SectionsReviewer
  • activity

    Department of Veterans Affairs

    Peer Review Groups and Grant Study SectionsReviewer
  • activity

    AMIA

    Professional OrganizationsMember
  • activity

    Journal of American Medical Informatics Association

    Journal ServiceEditorial Board Member
  • activity

    Department of Veterans Affairs

    Peer Review Groups and Grant Study SectionsReviewer
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Get In Touch

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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