Gabe Brat, PhD

Gabriel Brat, MD

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

Gabriel Brat is a trauma surgeon, surgical intensivist, and assistant professor of surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also an assistant professor in biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School (secondary). 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, computer vision of open surgical videos for performance analysis and feedback, and leveraging large-scale database and machine learning models to inform surgical planning and improve outcomes. As the co-founder of a successful recently acquired 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.

Effects of laparoscopic vs open abdominal surgery on costs and hospital readmission rate and its effect modification by surgeons' case volume.
Authors: Shin TH, Friedrich S, Brat GA, Rudolph MI, Sein V, Munoz-Acuna R, Houle TT, Ferrone CR, Eikermann M.
Surg Endosc
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Optimizing opioid prescribing and pain treatment for surgery: Review and conceptual framework.
Authors: Bicket MC, Brat GA, Hutfless S, Wu CL, Nesbit SA, Alexander GC.
Am J Health Syst Pharm
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Altered monocyte and NK cell phenotypes correlate with posttrauma infection.
Authors: Seshadri A, Brat GA, Yorkgitis BK, Giangola M, Keegan J, Nguyen JP, Li W, Nakahori Y, Wada T, Hauser C, Salim A, Askari R, Lederer JA.
J Trauma Acute Care Surg
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Intraoperative Unfractionated Heparin Unresponsiveness during Endovascular Repair of a Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm following Administration of Andexanet Alfa for the Reversal of Rivaroxaban.
Authors: Eche IM, Elsamadisi P, Wex N, Wyers MC, Brat GA, Cunningham K, Bauer KA.
Pharmacotherapy
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Effect of Surgery-Specific Opioid-Prescribing Education in a Safety-Net Hospital.
Authors: Yorkgitis BK, Paffett C, Brat GA, Crandall M.
J Surg Res
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Controlled substance prescribing and education in orthopedic residencies: A program director survey.
Authors: Yorkgitis BK, Dugan MM, Bell A, Brat GA, Crandall M.
Am J Surg
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Surgery program directors' knowledge of opioid prescribing regulations: a survey study.
Authors: Yorkgitis BK, Raygor D, Bryant E, Brat G, Smink DS, Crandall M.
J Surg Res
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Postoperative opioid prescribing: Getting it RIGHTT.
Authors: Yorkgitis BK, Brat GA.
Am J Surg
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Postsurgical prescriptions for opioid naive patients and association with overdose and misuse: retrospective cohort study.
Authors: Brat GA, Agniel D, Beam A, Yorkgitis B, Bicket M, Homer M, Fox KP, Knecht DB, McMahill-Walraven CN, Palmer N, Kohane I.
BMJ
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Ultrasonography training and utilization in surgical critical care fellowships: a program director's survey.
Authors: Yorkgitis BK, Bryant EA, Brat GA, Kelly E, Askari R, Ra JH.
J Surg Res
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