Amar K. Das

Honors and Awards

• Starter Research Award in Informatics, PhRMA Foundation (2005)
• Health Services Research Scholar, American Psychiatric Association (2001)
• Finalist, Student Paper Award, Annual AMIA Symposium (2001)
• APA/GW Fellowship, American Psychiatric Association (1999-2001)
• Second Place, Student Paper Award, SCAMC (Annual AMIA Symposium) (1995)
• Best Theoretical Paper Award, SCAMC (Annual AMIA Symposium) (1992)
• Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University (1989)

Professional Education

• BA, Northwestern University Anthropology/Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (1989)
• MD, Stanford University (1997)
• PhD, Stanford University Medical Information Sciences (2002)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Biomedical Informatics

Web Site Links

• Lab Info on BMIR Website

Research Interests

My research group focuses on the advancement of Semantic Web technologies to support temporal reasoning, data integration and collaborative research in healthcare and the life sciences.

Publications

• Knowledge-data integration for temporal reasoning in a clinical trial system. O'Connor MJ,  Shankar RD, Parrish DB, Das AK.  Int J Med Inform.  2009; 78 Suppl 1 S77-85
• Re: A prospective randomized evaluation of VV delay optimization in CRT-D recipients: echocardiographic observations from the RHYTHM II ICD study. Turcott RG,  Das AK, Ashley EA.  Pacing Clin Electrophysiol.  2009; 32 (10): 1360-1; author reply 1361-2
• TrialWiz: an ontology-driven tool for authoring clinical trial protocols. Shankar RD,  Arkalgud S, O'Connor M, Connor M, Boyce KS, Parrish DB, Das AK.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2008; 1226
• Unsupervised method for automatic construction of a disease dictionary from a large free text collection. Xu R,  Supekar K, Morgan A, Das A, Garber A.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2008; 820-4
• Sequence editing by Apolipoprotein B RNA-editing catalytic component [corrected] and epidemiological surveillance of transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance. Gifford RJ,  Rhee SY, Eriksson N, Liu TF, Kiuchi M, Das AK, Shafer RW.  AIDS.  2008; 22 (6): 717-25
• Using an integrated ontology and information model for querying and reasoning about phenotypes: The case of autism. Tu SW,  Tu S, Tennakoon L, O'Connor M, Connor M, Shankar R, Das A.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2008; 727-31
• Extracting subject demographic information from abstracts of randomized clinical trial reports. Xu R,  Garten Y, Supekar KS, Das AK, Altman RB, Garber AM.  Stud Health Technol Inform.  2007; 129 (Pt 1): 550-4
• Knowledge-level querying of temporal patterns in clinical research systems. O'Connor MJ,  Shankar RD, Parrish DB, Das AK.  Stud Health Technol Inform.  2007; 129 (Pt 1): 311-5
• An ontology-driven method for hierarchical mining of temporal patterns: application to HIV drug resistance research. Raj R,  O'Connor MJ, Das AK.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2007; 614-9
• An ontology-based architecture for integration of clinical trials management applications. Shankar RD,  Martins SB, O'Connor M, Parrish DB, Das AK.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2007; 661-5
• Knowledge integration of software for HIV drug resistance research. Hernandez G,  Rhee SY, Shafer RW, Das AK.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2007; 973
• A knowledge representation of local pandemic influenza planning models. Islam R,  Brandeau ML, Das AK.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2007; 988
• Knowledge acquisition and visualization for biomedical research. Zimmerman N,  Meehan S, Herzenberg LA, Das AK.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2007; 1177
• Posttraumatic stress disorder in primary care one year after the 9/11 attacks. Neria Y,  Gross R, Olfson M, Gameroff MJ, Wickramaratne P, Das A, Pilowsky D, Feder A, Blanco C, Marshall RD, Lantigua R, Shea S, Weissman MM.  Gen Hosp Psychiatry.  2006 May-Jun; 28 (3): 213-22
• Customizing clinical narratives for the electronic medical record interface using cognitive methods. Sharda P,  Das AK, Cohen TA, Patel V.  Int J Med Inform.  2006; 75 (5): 346-68
• Task analysis of writing hospital admission orders: evidence of a problem-based approach. Johnson CD,  Zeiger RF, Das AK, Goldstein MK.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2006; 389-93
• Knowledge-based method for building patient decision-analytic tools. Das AK,  Ahmed BA, Garten Y, Robin JI, Goldstein MK.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2006; 175-9
• A combined data mining approach for infrequent events: analyzing HIV mutation changes based on treatment history. Lin RS,  Rhee SY, Shafer RW, Das AK.  Comput Syst Bioinformatics Conf.  2006; 385-8
• Ontology-driven mapping of temporal data in biomedical databases. Narayanan PS,  O'Connor MJ, Das AK.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2006; 1045
• A dynamic distributed architecture for temporal data abstraction. Chauhan VP,  O'connor MJ, Das AK.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2006; 880
• Prediction of HIV mutation changes based on treatment history. Lin RS,  Rhee SY, Shafer RW, Das AK.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2006; 1011
• Combining text classification and Hidden Markov Modeling techniques for categorizing sentences in randomized clinical trial abstracts. Xu R,  Supekar K, Huang Y, Das A, Garber A.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2006; 824-8
• Depression in African Americans: breaking barriers to detection and treatment. Das AK,  Olfson M, McCurtis HL, Weissman MM.  J Fam Pract.  2006; 55 (1): 30-9
• Depression in US Hispanics: diagnostic and management considerations in family practice. Lewis-Fernández R,  Das AK, Alfonso C, Weissman MM, Olfson M.  J Am Board Fam Pract.  2005 Jul-Aug; 18 (4): 282-96
• Modeling electronic discharge summaries as a simple temporal constraint satisfaction problem. Hripcsak G,  Zhou L, Parsons S, Das AK, Johnson SB.  J Am Med Inform Assoc.  2005 Jan-Feb; 12 (1): 55-63
• Gender differences in posttraumatic stress disorder among primary care patients after the World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001. Weissman MM,  Neria Y, Das A, Feder A, Blanco C, Lantigua R, Shea S, Gross R, Gameroff MJ, Pilowsky D, Olfson M.  Gend Med.  2005; 2 (2): 76-87
• Bipolar depression in a low-income primary care clinic. Olfson M,  Das AK, Gameroff MJ, Pilowsky D, Feder A, Gross R, Lantigua R, Shea S, Weissman MM.  Am J Psychiatry.  2005; 162 (11): 2146-51
• Screening for bipolar disorder in a primary care practice. Das AK,  Olfson M, Gameroff MJ, Pilowsky DJ, Blanco C, Feder A, Gross R, Neria Y, Lantigua R, Shea S, Weissman MM.  JAMA.  2005; 293 (8): 956-63
• Computational method for temporal pattern discovery in biomedical genomic databases. Rafiq MI,  O'Connor MJ, Das AK.  Proc IEEE Comput Syst Bioinform Conf.  2005; 362-5
• Bipolar disorder. Gross R,  Das AK, Weissman MM.  N Engl J Med.  2004; 351 (23): 2454-5
• Screening for depression in adults. Das AK,  Gross R, Weissman MM.  Ann Intern Med.  2003; 138 (9): 767; author reply 767-8
• Specifying design criteria for electronic medical record interface using cognitive framework. Sharda P,  Das AK, Patel VL.  AMIA Annu Symp Proc.  2003; 594-8
• Computers in psychiatry: a review of past programs and an analysis of historical trends. Das AK,  Psychiatr Q.  2002; 73 (4): 351-65
• SYNCHRONUS: a reusable software module for temporal integration. Das AK,  Musen MA.  Proc AMIA Symp.  2002; 195-9
• A formal method to resolve temporal mismatches in clinical databases. Das AK,  Musen MA.  Proc AMIA Symp.  2001; 130-4
• A temporal database mediator for protocol-based decision support. Nguyen JH,  Shahar Y, Tu SW, Das AK, Musen MA.  Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp.  1997; 298-302
• A foundational model of time for heterogeneous clinical databases. Das AK,  Musen MA.  Proc AMIA Annu Fall Symp.  1997; 106-10
• EON: a component-based approach to automation of protocol-directed therapy. Musen MA,  Tu SW, Das AK, Shahar Y.  J Am Med Inform Assoc.  1996 Nov-Dec; 3 (6): 367-88
• Knowledge-based temporal abstraction in diabetes therapy. Shahar Y,  Das AK, Tu SW, Kraemer FB, Basso LV, Musen MA.  Medinfo.  1995; 8 Pt 1 852-6
• A comparison of the temporal expressiveness of three database query methods. Das AK,  Musen MA.  Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care.  1995; 331-7
• A logical foundation for representation of clinical data. Campbell KE,  Das AK, Musen MA.  J Am Med Inform Assoc.  1994 May-Jun; 1 (3): 218-32
• A temporal query system for protocol-directed decision support. Das AK,  Musen MA.  Methods Inf Med.  1994; 33 (4): 358-70
• Knowledge-based temporal abstraction for diabetic monitoring. Shahar Y,  Das AK, Tu SW, Kraemer FB, Musen MA.  Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care.  1994; 697-701
• A temporal-abstraction mediator for protocol-based decision-support systems. Das AK,  Shahar Y, Tu SW, Musen MA.  Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care.  1994; 320-4
• An extended SQL for temporal data management in clinical decision-support systems. Das AK,  Tu SW, Purcell GP, Musen MA.  Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care.  1992; 128-32