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Principal Investigator

Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), of Biomedical Data Science, of Surgery and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health

For more information on Dr. Hernandez-Boussard click here.

Profiles & Newsworthy Stories

'Not Her First Rodeo'

Advancing AI Research, Education, Policy, and Practice to Service the Collective Needs of Humanity

'Workshop on Transparency for Data and Model Reuse'

A Draft Report of Transparency Guidance for NIH Awardees Using, Developing, or Contributing AI: Published Oct. 2024
Co-chair, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, PhD

Current Team

Postdoctoral Scholars

Yeon Mi Hwang

Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Informatics

ymh@stanford.edu

Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Informatics

tusharm@stanford.edu

Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Informatics

mpillai@stanford.edu

PhD Students

César Baëta

Ph.D. Student in Epidemiology and Clinical Research

Ashley Adanna Lewis

Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Informatics

alewis23@stanford.edu

MedScholars / Medical Students

Vaibhavi Shah

MD Student

vaibhavi@stanford.edu

Masters Students

Audrey A. Kwan

Masters Student in Computer Science

aakwan@stanford.edu

Youran "Peggy" Li

Masters Student in Bioengineering

peggyli@stanford.edu

Summer Royal

Masters Student in Computer Science

sroyal@stanford.edu

Brian Sutjiadi, MD

Masters Student in Biomedical Data Science

bsutjiad@stanford.edu

Javen Xu

Masters Student in Biomedical Data Science

javenxu@stanford.edu

Visiting Scholars

Nerea Laura Keller

Visiting Scholar: MD Student, University of Zurich

nlkeller@stanford.edu

Research Staff

Behzad Naderalvojoud

Biomedical Informatics Scientist, MED / BMIR

behzadn@stanford.edu

Michelle Sahai

Biomedical Informatics Contingent Staff Researcher, MED / BMIR

msahai@stanford.edu

Tina Seto

Software Development, TDS-Research IT, MED / BMIR

TSeto@stanfordhealthcare.org

Administration / Management

Lionel Z. Jeremiah

Administrative Associate II, MED/BMIR Administration

lionelzj@stanford.edu

David L. M. Preston

Program Manager, Academic Prog Prof 2, MED / BMIR

preston@stanford.edu

Summer Interns

Prior Years

2024

Teodors Smith

UCLA

www.linkedin.com/in/teodors-smith

2023

Thomas Leonard

Brown

Ashlyn Roice

Caltech

2021

Sarah Rosenthal

UCSF

2019

Beril Erdogdu

Brown University

Kristen Vitolo

Van Nuys High School

Melih Yilmaz

Koç University

Andy Zhang

Berkeley High School

2018

Dilan De Silva

Henry Gunn High School

Sahithi Madireddy

Notre Dame High School

Mrunali Manjrekar

Leigh High School

2017

Tarun Amarnath

Saint Francis High School

Michael Kwan

The Harker School

2016

Christine Cho

Castilleja High School

Rashi Bose

Castilleja High School

Past Scholars

Boussard Lab Alumni

Imon Banerjee, PhD

Nicolas Bievre, MS

Vincent Billaut, MS

Luisa Bouneder, MS

Selen Bozkurt, PhD

Emile Clastres, MS

Jean Coquet, PhD

Marika Cusick, MS

Karishma Desai, PhD, B.Pharm

Steven Dillmann

Inés Dormoy, MS

Rajendra Dulal, PhD

Oualid El Hajouji, MS

Hamza El Mosor, MS

Gabriela Escobar, BA

Sergio Gonzales

Fatima Gowher, MS, BA

Simon Hagege, MS

Benjamin Jacobson, BA

Jennifer Joseph, PhD

Thomas Leonard, BA

Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, PhD

Axel Moyal, MSc

Raphael Lenain, MS

Lakshmi Manoharan, MS

Doug Morris

Jung In Park, PhD

Arjun Parthipan

Rohan Paul, MS, BSc

Dylan Peterson, MD

Selina "Junyi" Pi, PhD

Eliane Roeoesli, MSc, MBA

Shengtian Sang, PhD

Elia Saquand, MS

Martin Seneviratne, MD, MS

Alessandro Shapiro, BS

Rebecca Staiger, PhD

Joachim Studnia, MS

Ran "Sunny" Sun, PhD, MA

Dario Tedesco, MD, PhD

Julien Vialard, MS

Yuqing Wang, PhD

Yingjie Weng

Melih Yilmaz, PhD

Wen-wai Yim, PhD

Alex Youssef

Alban Zammit, MS

MedScholars Alumni

Nicole Arkin

Association of Nurse-to-Patient Ratio with mortality and preventable complications following aortic valve replacement. Arkin N, Lee PH, McDonald K, Hernandez-Boussard T. J Card Surg. 2014 Mar;29(2):141-8.

Amee Azad

Intraocular Pressure Changes after Cataract Surgery in Patients with and without Glaucoma: An Informatics-Based Approach. Wang SY, Azad AD, Lin SC, Hernandez-Boussard T, Pershing S.Ophthalmol Glaucoma. 2020 Sep-Oct;3(5):343-349. doi: 10.1016/j.ogla.2020.06.002.

Acute pain after breast surgery and reconstruction: A two-institution study of surgical factors influencing short-term pain outcomes. Azad AD, Bozkurt S, Wheeler AJ, Curtin C, Wagner TH, Hernandez-Boussard T.J Surg Oncol. 2020 Jun 20. doi: 10.1002/jso.26070.

Carson Burns

Characterization of Young Adult Emergency Department Users: Evidence to Guide Policy. Burns C, Wang NE, Goldstein BA, Hernandez-Boussard T. J Adolesc Health. 2016 Dec;59(6):654-661.

The Affordable Care Act reduces emergency department use by young adults: evidence from three States. Hernandez-Boussard T, Burns CS, Wang NE, Baker LC, Goldstein BA. Health Aff (Millwood). 2014 Sep;33(9):1648-54.

Antonia Chan

Trends in Medicaid Inpatient, Outpatient, and Emergency Utilization during COVID-19. Chan, A, Staiger, B, Sun, R, Baker, L, Hernandez-Boussard, T. Academy Health. 2021, Jun 17.

Changes in Medicaid Enrollee Characteristics during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Sun, R, Staiger, B, Chan, A, Baker, L, Hernandez-Boussard, T. Academy Health. 2021, Jun 14.

Kuo-Kai Chin

Integrating Adjuvant Analgesics into Perioperative Pain Practice: Results from an Academic Medical Center. Chin KK, Carroll I, Desai K, Asch S, Seto T, McDonald KM, Curtin C, Hernandez-Boussard T. Pain Med. 2019 Apr 1.

Annika M. Dries

Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in the Context COVID-19. Annika M. Dries, Neera Ahuja, Jason Hom, and Tina Hernandez-Boussard. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid. 2022 Jan.

Micaela Finnegan

Emergency Department Visits Following Elective Total Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery: Identifying Gaps in Continuity of Care. Finnegan MA, Shaffer R, Remington A, Kwong J, Curtin C, Hernandez-Boussard T. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2017 Jun 21;99(12):1005-1012.

Zarah Iqbal

Differences in Health Care Utilization Between Early and Late Adolescents with Chronic Medical Conditions.

Dale Daniel Kim

AF/AC Project Update - GPT-4 in Identifying Disparities in Anticoagulation Usage

Arman Koul

Clinical Presentation and Predicting Onset of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (CIPN) and Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Impairment (CRCI) in Breast Cancer Patients

Jereen Kwong

Effect of Medicare's Nonpayment Policy on Surgical Site Infections Following Orthopedic Procedures. Kwong JZ, Weng Y, Finnegan M, Schaffer R, Remington A, Curtin C, McDonald KM, Bhattacharya J, Hernandez-Boussard T. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 Jul;38(7):817-822.

Kevin Li

Clinical Documentation to Predict Factors Associated with Urinary Incontinence Following Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer. Li K, Banerjee I, Magnani CJ, Blayney DW, Brooks JD, Hernandez-Boussard T.Res Rep Urol. 2020 Jan 23;12:7-14. doi: 10.2147/RRU.S234178. eCollection 2020. PMID: 32158720

Christopher Magnani

PSA Testing Use and Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Stage After the 2012 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Guideline Changes. Magnani CJ, Li K, Seto T, McDonald KM, Blayney DW, Brooks JD, Hernandez-Boussard T.J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2019 Jul 1;17(7):795-803. doi: 10.6004/jnccn.2018.7274.

Nuriel Moghavem

Performance Measures in Neurosurgical Patient Care: Differing Applications of Patient Safety Indicators. Moghavem N, McDonald K, Ratliff JK, Hernandez-Boussard T. Med Care. 2016 Apr;54(4):359-64.

Cranial neurosurgical 30-day readmissions by clinical indication. Moghavem N, Morrison D, Ratliff JK, Hernandez-Boussard T. J Neurosurg. 2015 Jul;123(1):189-97.

Anthony (Nino) Nastasi

Rule-based Natural Language Processing Pipeline for Anesthesia Classification from EHR Notes. Nastasi A, Curtin C, Hernandez-Boussard T. ACS, September 2018

Thuy Nguyen

Pediatric Patient and Hospital Characteristics Associated With Treatment of Peritonsillar Abscess and Peritonsillar Cellulitis. Nguyen T, Haberland CA, Hernandez-Boussard T. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2015 Nov;54(13):1240-6.

Robyn Shaffer

Thirty-day unplanned postoperative inpatient and emergency department visits following thoracotomy. Shaffer, Backus, Finnegan, Remington, Kwong, Curtin, Hernandez-Boussard. J Surg Res. 2018; 230:117-124.

Vaibhavi Shah

Perspectives on Validation of Clinical Predictive Algorithms. Anne A H de Hond, Vaibhavi B Shah, Ilse M J Kant, Ben Van Calster, Ewout W Steyerberg, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, NPJ Digit Med. 2023 May 6;6(1):86.

Swati Yanamadala

Robot-assisted versus open radical prostatectomy utilization in hospitals offering robotics. Yanamadala S, Chung BI, Hernandez-Boussard TM. Can J Urol. 2016 Jun;23(3):8279-84.

Electronic Health Records and Quality of Care: An Observational Study Modeling Impact on Mortality, Readmissions, and Complications. Yanamadala S, Morrison D, Curtin C, McDonald K, Hernandez-Boussard T. Medicine (Baltimore). 2016 May;95(19):e3332.

Visiting Scholars Alumni

Faculty Collaborators

Professor of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health) and, by courtesy, of Health Policy

sasch@stanford.edu

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics)

ybannett@stanford.edu

Professor of Medicine (Oncology), Emeritus

dblayney@stanford.edu

Keith and Jan Hurlbut Professor

(650) 725-5746

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (Adult Pain)

(650) 721-7286

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health) and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health

pgeldsetzer@stanford.edu

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine (Adult Pain)

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)

Esther Ting Memorial Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Health Policy

(650) 723-9067

knh@stanford.edu

Professor of Ophthalmology

Clinical Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine

brice@Stanford.edu

Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine)

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center)

ats114@stanford.edu

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

sywang@stanford.edu

Lab Social Activities

Celebration Dinner

In February members of the lab celebrated new career paths and opportunities for its team members with a dinner at Terún, Palo Alto. Attendees included (clockwise from lower left): Malvika Pillai, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, César Baëta, Tushar Mungle, Behzad Naderalvojoud, Ashley Lewis, and Madelena Ng.

In June 2024 the Boussard Lab visited Alcatraz Island. Attending (left to right): Tushar Mungle, Madelena Ng, Behzad Naderalvojoud, Quentin Boussard, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Yeon Mi Hwang, Sara Keller, César Baëta, Yuqing Wang, and Malvika Pillai.

Dish walk, March 2024. From left to right: Behzad Naderalvojoud, Siri van der Meijden, Yuqing Wang, Sara Keller (front, in black), David L. M. Preston, Tina Hernandez-Boussard.

Lab trip to San Francisco with 2019 Summer Interns: Beril Erdogdu, Brown University, and Melih Yilmaz, from Koç University.

Lab walk at the Dish with 2017 Summer Interns. Picture includes Tarun Amarnath, Saint Francis High School; Michael Kwan, The Harker School; and Jaiwei Zhou, School of Pharmaceutical Science, Tsinghua University.

Lab walk at the Stanford Dish trail, 2017.