Paul Avillach

Paul Avillach, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
10 Shattuck Street, Boston MA 02115
Avillach Lab

Paul Avillach  holds an MD in public health and epidemiology from the University of Bordeaux and a PhD in biomedical informatics from the University of Marseilles. Avillach's research focuses on the development of novel methods and techniques for the integration of multiple heterogeneous clinic cohorts, electronic health records data, and multiple types of genomics data to encompass biological observations. He is PI and Co-Investigator on several large projects at DBMI, including the BD2K PIC-SURE Center of Excellence, the Global Rare Diseases Registry project, the PCORI ARCH project, and the PCORI Phelan-Mcdermid Syndrome project.


DBMI Research Areas
DBMI Courses
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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Vascular and metabolic risk factor differences prior to dementia diagnosis: a multidatabase case-control study using European electronic health records.
Authors: Perera G, Rijnbeek PR, Alexander M, Ansell D, Avillach P, Duarte-Salles T, Gordon MF, Lapi F, Mayer MA, Pasqua A, Pedersen L, van Der Lei J, Visser PJ, Stewart R.
BMJ Open
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Development and validation of a Paediatric Early Warning Score for use in the emergency department: a multicentre study.
Authors: Zachariasse JM, Nieboer D, Maconochie IK, Smit FJ, Alves CF, Greber-Platzer S, Tsolia MN, Steyerberg EW, Avillach P, van der Lei J, Moll HA.
Lancet Child Adolesc Health
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Scalability and cost-effectiveness analysis of whole genome-wide association studies on Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.
Authors: Krissaane I, De Niz C, Gutiérrez-Sacristán A, Korodi G, Ede N, Kumar R, Lyons J, Manrai A, Patel C, Kohane I, Avillach P.
J Am Med Inform Assoc
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A Semi-Automated Approach for Multilingual Terminology Matching: Mapping the French Version of the ICD-10 to the ICD-10 CM.
Authors: Sylvestre E, Bouzillé G, McDuffie M, Chazard E, Avillach P, Cuggia M.
Stud Health Technol Inform
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Treatment pathway analysis of newly diagnosed dementia patients in four electronic health record databases in Europe.
Authors: James G, Collin E, Lawrance M, Mueller A, Podhorna J, Zaremba-Pechmann L, Rijnbeek P, van der Lei J, Avillach P, Pedersen L, Ansell D, Pasqua A, Mosseveld M, Grosdidier S, Gungabissoon U, Egger P, Stewart R, Celis-Morales C, Alexander M, Novak G, Gordon MF.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
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Methotrexate and relative risk of dementia amongst patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a multi-national multi-database case-control study.
Authors: Newby D, Prieto-Alhambra D, Duarte-Salles T, Ansell D, Pedersen L, van der Lei J, Mosseveld M, Rijnbeek P, James G, Alexander M, Egger P, Podhorna J, Stewart R, Perera G, Avillach P, Grosdidier S, Lovestone S, Nevado-Holgado AJ.
Alzheimers Res Ther
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GenoPheno: cataloging large-scale phenotypic and next-generation sequencing data within human datasets.
Authors: Gutiérrez-Sacristán A, De Niz C, Kothari C, Kong SW, Mandl KD, Avillach P.
Brief Bioinform
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The Genomics Research and Innovation Network: creating an interoperable, federated, genomics learning system.
Authors: Mandl KD, Glauser T, Krantz ID, Avillach P, Bartels A, Beggs AH, Biswas S, Bourgeois FT, Corsmo J, Dauber A, Devkota B, Fleisher GR, Heath AP, Helbig I, Hirschhorn JN, Kilbourn J, Kong SW, Kornetsky S, Majzoub JA, Marsolo K, Martin LJ, Nix J, Schwarzhoff A, Stedman J, Strauss A, Sund KL, Taylor DM, White PS, Marsh E, Grimberg A, Hawkes C.
Genet Med
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International electronic health record-derived COVID-19 clinical course profiles: the 4CE consortium.
Authors: Brat GA, Weber GM, Gehlenborg N, Avillach P, Palmer NP, Chiovato L, Cimino J, Waitman LR, Omenn GS, Malovini A, Moore JH, Beaulieu-Jones BK, Tibollo V, Murphy SN, Yi SL, Keller MS, Bellazzi R, Hanauer DA, Serret-Larmande A, Gutierrez-Sacristan A, Holmes JJ, Bell DS, Mandl KD, Follett RW, Klann JG, Murad DA, Scudeller L, Bucalo M, Kirchoff K, Craig J, Obeid J, Jouhet V, Griffier R, Cossin S, Moal B, Patel LP, Bellasi A, Prokosch HU, Kraska D, Sliz P, Tan ALM, Ngiam KY, Zambelli A, Mowery DL, Schiver E, Devkota B, Bradford RL, Daniar M, Daniel C, Benoit V, Bey R, Paris N, Serre P, Orlova N, Dubiel J, Hilka M, Jannot AS, Breant S, Leblanc J, Griffon N, Burgun A, Bernaux M, Sandrin A, Salamanca E, Cormont S, Ganslandt T, Gradinger T, Champ J, Boeker M, Martel P, Esteve L, Gramfort A, Grisel O, Leprovost D, Moreau T, Varoquaux G, Vie JJ, Wassermann D, Mensch A, Caucheteux C, Haverkamp C, Lemaitre G, Bosari S, Krantz ID, South A, Cai T, Kohane IS.
NPJ Digit Med
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