David Ruau
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Professional Overview
Honors and Awards
- Distinguished paper award, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA TBI) (03/2011)
- Anesthesia Department Research Award, Stanford School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesia (5/10/2010)
- Borcher medal, RWTH University Aachen (06/18/2010)
Professional Education
| Doctor of Philosophy: | Rheinisch-Westfalische Tech Hochschule (2009) |
| Master of Science: | University of Toulouse, France, Bioinformatics (2003) |
Stanford Advisors
| Atul Butte: | Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor |
Lab Affiliations
- David Clark, Anesthesiology Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System (2/2/2009)
- Atul Butte, Butte Lab (2/2/2009)
- Martin Angst, Angst Lab (2/2/2009)
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
The current medical view on disease classification and diagnosis has been evolving to integrate more and more objective biomarkers. The recent transformation of the health system toward Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) now enable researchers to conduct very large epidemiological studies. However, there are several challenges in mining EMRs both methodological and application specific.
I recently used EMRs to study pain differences between men and women (to appear in the Journal of Pain). Several additional projects are underway more specifically to discover pain biomarkers and also understanding physiological events specific to type-2 diabetes onset.
I have a shared appointment between the department of Pediatric Bioinformatics and the department of Anesthesia at Stanford and also the Veterans Affairs Department of Palo Alto. Our team include, Dr. Atul Butte, Dr. Martin Angst and Dr. David Clark.
Publications
- Sex Differences in Reported Pain Across 11,000 Patients Captured in Electronic Medical Records. J Pain. 2012
- Comparison of automated and human assignment of MeSH terms on publicly-available molecular datasets. J Biomed Inform. 2011: S39-43
- Induction of pluripotency in adult unipotent germline stem cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2009; (1): 87-96
- Oct4-induced pluripotency in adult neural stem cells. Cell. 2009; (3): 411-9
- Pluripotency associated genes are reactivated by chromatin-modifying agents in neurosphere cells. Stem Cells. 2008; (4): 920-6
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