Susanne Churchill

Susanne Churchill, PhD

Executive Director, DBMI, Harvard Medical School
Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital

10 Shattuck St Boston MA 02115

617-432-3209

Susanne Churchill received her PhD from Boston University School of Medicine and did her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School in the field of cardiovascular and renal physiology, progressing to instructor and lecturer. She co-founded the Institute for Circadian Physiology in Boston, where she served as chief operating officer while continuing her research in space medicine and teaching. She returned full time to HMS to serve as director of sponsored programs administration and subsequently was appointed associate dean for research. Churchill next joined forces with Isaac Kohane to lead the successful Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) National Center for Biomedical Computing at Partners HealthCare as its executive director and principle investigator of the educational core. She joined DBMI in 2015 as executive director of the department, executive director of the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Center of Excellence, executive director of the N-GRID (neuropsychiatric genome-scale and RDoC-Individualized domains) Center of Excellence in Genome Science and program director for the long-running Summer Institute in Biomedical Informatics (SIBMI). Churchill is also an instructor in the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Improving case definition of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in electronic medical records using natural language processing: a novel informatics approach.
Authors: Ananthakrishnan AN, Cai T, Savova G, Cheng SC, Chen P, Perez RG, Gainer VS, Murphy SN, Szolovits P, Xia Z, Shaw S, Churchill S, Karlson EW, Kohane I, Plenge RM, Liao KP.
Inflamm Bowel Dis
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A mega-analysis of genome-wide association studies for major depressive disorder.
Authors: Ripke S, Wray NR, Lewis CM, Hamilton SP, Weissman MM, Breen G, Byrne EM, Blackwood DH, Boomsma DI, Cichon S, Heath AC, Holsboer F, Lucae S, Madden PA, Martin NG, McGuffin P, Muglia P, Noethen MM, Penninx BP, Pergadia ML, Potash JB, Rietschel M, Lin D, Müller-Myhsok B, Shi J, Steinberg S, Grabe HJ, Lichtenstein P, Magnusson P, Perlis RH, Preisig M, Smoller JW, Stefansson K, Uher R, Kutalik Z, Tansey KE, Teumer A, Viktorin A, Barnes MR, Bettecken T, Binder EB, Breuer R, Castro VM, Churchill SE, Coryell WH, Craddock N, Craig IW, Czamara D, De Geus EJ, Degenhardt F, Farmer AE, Fava M, Frank J, Gainer VS, Gallagher PJ, Gordon SD, Goryachev S, Gross M, Guipponi M, Henders AK, Herms S, Hickie IB, Hoefels S, Hoogendijk W, Hottenga JJ, Iosifescu DV, Ising M, Jones I, Jones L, Jung-Ying T, Knowles JA, Kohane IS, Kohli MA, Korszun A, Landen M, Lawson WB, Lewis G, Macintyre D, Maier W, Mattheisen M, McGrath PJ, McIntosh A, McLean A, Middeldorp CM, Middleton L, Montgomery GM, Murphy SN, Nauck M, Nolen WA, Nyholt DR, O'Donovan M, Oskarsson H, Pedersen N, Scheftner WA, Schulz A, Schulze TG, Shyn SI, Sigurdsson E, Slager SL, Smit JH, Stefansson H, Steffens M, Thorgeirsson T, Tozzi F, Treutlein J, Uhr M, van den Oord EJ, Van Grootheest G, Völzke H, Weilburg JB, Willemsen G, Zitman FG, Neale B, Daly M, Levinson DF, Sullivan PF.
Mol Psychiatry
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Similar risk of depression and anxiety following surgery or hospitalization for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Authors: Ananthakrishnan AN, Gainer VS, Cai T, Perez RG, Cheng SC, Savova G, Chen P, Szolovits P, Xia Z, De Jager PL, Shaw S, Churchill S, Karlson EW, Kohane I, Perlis RH, Plenge RM, Murphy SN, Liao KP.
Am J Gastroenterol
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Feasibility of studying brain morphology in major depressive disorder with structural magnetic resonance imaging and clinical data from the electronic medical record: a pilot study.
Authors: Hoogenboom WS, Perlis RH, Smoller JW, Zeng-Treitler Q, Gainer VS, Murphy SN, Churchill SE, Kohane IS, Shenton ME, Iosifescu DV.
Psychiatry Res
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Associations of autoantibodies, autoimmune risk alleles, and clinical diagnoses from the electronic medical records in rheumatoid arthritis cases and non-rheumatoid arthritis controls.
Authors: Liao KP, Kurreeman F, Li G, Duclos G, Murphy S, Guzman R, Cai T, Gupta N, Gainer V, Schur P, Cui J, Denny JC, Szolovits P, Churchill S, Kohane I, Karlson EW, Plenge RM.
Arthritis Rheum
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Psychiatric co-morbidity is associated with increased risk of surgery in Crohn's disease.
Authors: Ananthakrishnan AN, Gainer VS, Perez RG, Cai T, Cheng SC, Savova G, Chen P, Szolovits P, Xia Z, De Jager PL, Shaw SY, Churchill S, Karlson EW, Kohane I, Perlis RH, Plenge RM, Murphy SN, Liao KP.
Aliment Pharmacol Ther
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QT interval and antidepressant use: a cross sectional study of electronic health records.
Authors: Castro VM, Clements CC, Murphy SN, Gainer VS, Fava M, Weilburg JB, Erb JL, Churchill SE, Kohane IS, Iosifescu DV, Smoller JW, Perlis RH.
BMJ
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SHRINE: enabling nationally scalable multi-site disease studies.
Authors: McMurry AJ, Murphy SN, MacFadden D, Weber G, Simons WW, Orechia J, Bickel J, Wattanasin N, Gilbert C, Trevvett P, Churchill S, Kohane IS.
PLoS One
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Modeling disease severity in multiple sclerosis using electronic health records.
Authors: Xia Z, Secor E, Chibnik LB, Bove RM, Cheng S, Chitnis T, Cagan A, Gainer VS, Chen PJ, Liao KP, Shaw SY, Ananthakrishnan AN, Szolovits P, Weiner HL, Karlson EW, Murphy SN, Savova GK, Cai T, Churchill SE, Plenge RM, Kohane IS, De Jager PL.
PLoS One
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A translational engine at the national scale: informatics for integrating biology and the bedside.
Authors: Kohane IS, Churchill SE, Murphy SN.
J Am Med Inform Assoc
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