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
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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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and risk of incident acute myocardial infarction and stroke: findings from matched cohort study of 18 million European adults.
Authors: Alexander M, Loomis AK, van der Lei J, Duarte-Salles T, Prieto-Alhambra D, Ansell D, Pasqua A, Lapi F, Rijnbeek P, Mosseveld M, Avillach P, Egger P, Dhalwani NN, Kendrick S, Celis-Morales C, Waterworth DM, Alazawi W, Sattar N.
BMJ
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Use of natural language processing in electronic medical records to identify pregnant women with suicidal behavior: towards a solution to the complex classification problem.
Authors: Zhong QY, Mittal LP, Nathan MD, Brown KM, Knudson González D, Cai T, Finan S, Gelaye B, Avillach P, Smoller JW, Karlson EW, Cai T, Williams MA.
Eur J Epidemiol
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Phelan-McDermid syndrome data network: Integrating patient reported outcomes with clinical notes and curated genetic reports.
Authors: Kothari C, Wack M, Hassen-Khodja C, Finan S, Savova G, O'Boyle M, Bliss G, Cornell A, Horn EJ, Davis R, Jacobs J, Kohane I, Avillach P.
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet
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Real-world data reveal a diagnostic gap in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Authors: Alexander M, Loomis AK, Fairburn-Beech J, van der Lei J, Duarte-Salles T, Prieto-Alhambra D, Ansell D, Pasqua A, Lapi F, Rijnbeek P, Mosseveld M, Avillach P, Egger P, Kendrick S, Waterworth DM, Sattar N, Alazawi W.
BMC Med
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Screening pregnant women for suicidal behavior in electronic medical records: diagnostic codes vs. clinical notes processed by natural language processing.
Authors: Zhong QY, Karlson EW, Gelaye B, Finan S, Avillach P, Smoller JW, Cai T, Williams MA.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak
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Adverse obstetric and neonatal outcomes complicated by psychosis among pregnant women in the United States.
Authors: Zhong QY, Gelaye B, Fricchione GL, Avillach P, Karlson EW, Williams MA.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
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Rcupcake: an R package for querying and analyzing biomedical data through the BD2K PIC-SURE RESTful API.
Authors: Gutiérrez-Sacristán A, Guedj R, Korodi G, Stedman J, Furlong LI, Patel CJ, Kohane IS, Avillach P.
Bioinformatics
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Dementia prevalence and incidence in a federation of European Electronic Health Record databases: The European Medical Informatics Framework resource.
Authors: Perera G, Pedersen L, Ansel D, Alexander M, Arrighi HM, Avillach P, Foskett N, Gini R, Gordon MF, Gungabissoon U, Mayer MA, Novak G, Rijnbeek P, Trifirò G, van der Lei J, Visser PJ, Stewart R.
Alzheimers Dement
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Adverse obstetric outcomes during delivery hospitalizations complicated by suicidal behavior among US pregnant women.
Authors: Zhong QY, Gelaye B, Smoller JW, Avillach P, Cai T, Williams MA.
PLoS One
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