Tianx Cai

Tianxi Cai, ScD

Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Director, Translational Data Science Center for a Learning Health System (CELEHS)

10 Shattuck Street, Room 434, Boston, MA 02115

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Tianxi Cai is a major player in developing analytical tools for mining EHR data and predictive modeling with biomedical data. She provides statistical leadership on several large-scale projects, including the NIH-funded Undiagnosed Diseases Network at DBMI. Cai's research lab develops novel statistical and machine learning methods for several areas including clinical trials, real world evidence, and personalized medicine using genomic and phenomic data. Cai received her ScD in Biostatistics at Harvard and was an assistant professor at the University of Washington before returning to Harvard as a faculty member in 2002.


DBMI Research Areas
Sparse kernel machine regression for ordinal outcomes.
Authors: Shen Y, Liao KP, Cai T.
Biometrics
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Mode of childbirth and long-term outcomes in women with inflammatory bowel diseases.
Authors: Ananthakrishnan AN, Cheng A, Cagan A, Cai T, Gainer VS, Shaw SY, Churchill S, Karlson EW, Murphy SN, Kohane I, Liao KP.
Dig Dis Sci
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Colonoscopy is associated with a reduced risk for colon cancer and mortality in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.
Authors: Ananthakrishnan AN, Cagan A, Cai T, Gainer VS, Shaw SY, Churchill S, Karlson EW, Murphy SN, Kohane I, Liao KP.
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol
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Methods to Develop an Electronic Medical Record Phenotype Algorithm to Compare the Risk of Coronary Artery Disease across 3 Chronic Disease Cohorts.
Authors: Liao KP, Ananthakrishnan AN, Kumar V, Xia Z, Cagan A, Gainer VS, Goryachev S, Chen P, Savova GK, Agniel D, Churchill S, Lee J, Murphy SN, Plenge RM, Szolovits P, Kohane I, Shaw SY, Karlson EW, Cai T.
PLoS One
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Predicting suicides after psychiatric hospitalization in US Army soldiers: the Army Study To Assess Risk and rEsilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS).
Authors: Kessler RC, Warner CH, Ivany C, Petukhova MV, Rose S, Bromet EJ, Brown M, Cai T, Colpe LJ, Cox KL, Fullerton CS, Gilman SE, Gruber MJ, Heeringa SG, Lewandowski-Romps L, Li J, Millikan-Bell AM, Naifeh JA, Nock MK, Rosellini AJ, Sampson NA, Schoenbaum M, Stein MB, Wessely S, Zaslavsky AM, Ursano RJ.
JAMA Psychiatry
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Classification of CT pulmonary angiography reports by presence, chronicity, and location of pulmonary embolism with natural language processing.
Authors: Yu S, Kumamaru KK, George E, Dunne RM, Bedayat A, Neykov M, Hunsaker AR, Dill KE, Cai T, Rybicki FJ.
J Biomed Inform
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Thromboprophylaxis is associated with reduced post-hospitalization venous thromboembolic events in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.
Authors: Ananthakrishnan AN, Cagan A, Gainer VS, Cheng SC, Cai T, Scoville E, Konijeti GG, Szolovits P, Shaw SY, Churchill S, Karlson EW, Murphy SN, Kohane I, Liao KP.
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol
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Improving the power of genetic association tests with imperfect phenotype derived from electronic medical records.
Authors: Sinnott JA, Dai W, Liao KP, Shaw SY, Ananthakrishnan AN, Gainer VS, Karlson EW, Churchill S, Szolovits P, Murphy S, Kohane I, Plenge R, Cai T.
Hum Genet
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Evaluating marker-guided treatment selection strategies.
Authors: Matsouaka RA, Li J, Cai T.
Biometrics
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Mortality and extraintestinal cancers in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis and inflammatory bowel disease.
Authors: Ananthakrishnan AN, Cagan A, Gainer VS, Cheng SC, Cai T, Szolovits P, Shaw SY, Churchill S, Karlson EW, Murphy SN, Kohane I, Liao KP.
J Crohns Colitis
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