Gabe Brat, PhD

Gabriel Brat, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Instructor in Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School (Secondary)

Gabriel Brat is a trauma surgeon and assistant professor of surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and instructor in biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School. As the director of the Surgical Informatics Lab, Dr. Brat has a broad research focus on informatics tools to improve surgical outcomes. His interests include clinical decision support to optimize surgical opioid prescribing as well as leveraging large-scale database and machine learning models to inform surgical planning and improve outcomes. As the co-founder of a successful venture-backed machine learning and computer vision company, he now teaches health IT innovation courses at the medical school and mentors several digital health startups. Gabriel has an undergraduate degree in bioengineering and a graduate degree in public health and biostatistics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He completed his medical training at Stanford University and his surgical residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

International Changes in COVID-19 Clinical Trajectories Across 315 Hospitals and 6 Countries: Retrospective Cohort Study.
Authors: Weber GM, Zhang HG, L'Yi S, Bonzel CL, Hong C, Avillach P, Gutiérrez-Sacristán A, Palmer NP, Tan ALM, Wang X, Yuan W, Gehlenborg N, Alloni A, Amendola DF, Bellasi A, Bellazzi R, Beraghi M, Bucalo M, Chiovato L, Cho K, Dagliati A, Estiri H, Follett RW, García Barrio N, Hanauer DA, Henderson DW, Ho YL, Holmes JH, Hutch MR, Kavuluru R, Kirchoff K, Klann JG, Krishnamurthy AK, Le TT, Liu M, Loh NHW, Lozano-Zahonero S, Luo Y, Maidlow S, Makoudjou A, Malovini A, Martins MR, Moal B, Morris M, Mowery DL, Murphy SN, Neuraz A, Ngiam KY, Okoshi MP, Omenn GS, Patel LP, Pedrera Jiménez M, Prudente RA, Samayamuthu MJ, Sanz Vidorreta FJ, Schriver ER, Schubert P, Serrano Balazote P, Tan BW, Tanni SE, Tibollo V, Visweswaran S, Wagholikar KB, Xia Z, Zöller D, Kohane IS, Cai T, South AM, Brat GA.
J Med Internet Res
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Evolving phenotypes of non-hospitalized patients that indicate long COVID.
Authors: Estiri H, Strasser ZH, Brat GA, Semenov YR, Patel CJ, Murphy SN.
BMC Med
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Comment on: Truth and truthiness: evidence, experience and clinical judgement in surgery.
Authors: Marwaha JS, Beaulieu-Jones B, Yuan W, Brat GA.
Br J Surg
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Effects of night surgery on postoperative mortality and morbidity: a multicentre cohort study.
Authors: Althoff FC, Wachtendorf LJ, Rostin P, Santer P, Schaefer MS, Xu X, Grabitz SD, Chitilian H, Houle TT, Brat GA, Akeju O, Eikermann M.
BMJ Qual Saf
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Reducing postoperative opioid pill prescribing via a quality improvement approach.
Authors: Stensland KD, Chang P, Jiang D, Canes D, Berkenwald A, Waisman A, Robinson K, Brat G, Crociani C, Mcanally K, Hyde S, Holliday B, Mechaber J, Baraka A, Moinzadeh A, Wagner AA.
Int J Qual Health Care
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Validation of an internationally derived patient severity phenotype to support COVID-19 analytics from electronic health record data.
Authors: Klann JG, Estiri H, Weber GM, Moal B, Avillach P, Hong C, Tan ALM, Beaulieu-Jones BK, Castro V, Maulhardt T, Geva A, Malovini A, South AM, Visweswaran S, Morris M, Samayamuthu MJ, Omenn GS, Ngiam KY, Mandl KD, Boeker M, Olson KL, Mowery DL, Follett RW, Hanauer DA, Bellazzi R, Moore JH, Loh NW, Bell DS, Wagholikar KB, Chiovato L, Tibollo V, Rieg S, Li ALLJ, Jouhet V, Schriver E, Xia Z, Hutch M, Luo Y, Kohane IS, Brat GA, Murphy SN.
J Am Med Inform Assoc
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Evolving Phenotypes of non-hospitalized Patients that Indicate Long Covid.
Authors: Estiri H, Strasser ZH, Brat GA, Semenov YR, Patel CJ, Murphy SN.
medRxiv
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Overwhelmed Hospitals May Soon Lead to Overwhelmed Rehabilitation Facilities Unless Post-Acute Care Infrastructure Is Strengthened.
Authors: Marwaha JS, Terzic CM, Kennedy DJ, Halamka J, Brat GA.
Am J Phys Med Rehabil
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Machine learning for patient risk stratification: standing on, or looking over, the shoulders of clinicians?
Authors: Beaulieu-Jones BK, Yuan W, Brat GA, Beam AL, Weber G, Ruffin M, Kohane IS.
NPJ Digit Med
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What Every Reader Should Know About Studies Using Electronic Health Record Data but May Be Afraid to Ask.
Authors: Kohane IS, Aronow BJ, Avillach P, Beaulieu-Jones BK, Bellazzi R, Bradford RL, Brat GA, Cannataro M, Cimino JJ, García-Barrio N, Gehlenborg N, Ghassemi M, Gutiérrez-Sacristán A, Hanauer DA, Holmes JH, Hong C, Klann JG, Loh NHW, Luo Y, Mandl KD, Daniar M, Moore JH, Murphy SN, Neuraz A, Ngiam KY, Omenn GS, Palmer N, Patel LP, Pedrera-Jiménez M, Sliz P, South AM, Tan ALM, Taylor DM, Taylor BW, Torti C, Vallejos AK, Wagholikar KB, Weber GM, Cai T.
J Med Internet Res
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