principal investigators
Mark Clapp, MD MPH and Alexander Melamed, MD MPH direct the Inference Lab. They are faculty members in the Massachusetts General Hospital Vincent Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and hold appointments at Harvard Medical School.
Contact us at mghinferencelab@mgb.org.
Dr. Clapp is a maternal-fetal medicine physician and health services researcher focused of examining the effects of health policies and practice changes on obstetrical outcomes. In addition, his is exploring opportunities for risk stratification and prediction using machine-learning and EHR data for adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes during labor and delivery.
Link to PubMed Publications
Dr. Melamed is a gynecologic oncologist and health services researcher who utilizes innovative methods and sophisticated study designs to improve health care delivered to women and patients with cancer. He is interested in how treatment variability across time, space, and providers can be leveraged to estimate causal effects in observational studies, particularly in scenarios where important confounders are unmeasured.
Link to PubMed Publications
lab members
Kaitlyn James, PhD MPH
Senior Research Analyst
Siguo Li, MS
Data Scientist
current trainees
Mary Kathryn Abel, MD, MAS
OB/GYN Resident
Massachusetts General Hospital
Syem Barakzai, MD
Gynecologic Oncology Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital
Taylor Freret, MD
Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital
Raj Vatsa
MD/PHD Candidate; Harvard Medical School &
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
collaborators
- Jessica Cohen, PhD
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health - Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, MD
UC San Diego Health - Anjali Kaimal, MD MAS
University of South Florida - Scott Lorch, MD MSCE
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia - Roy Perlis, MD MSc
Massachusetts General Hospital - Alejandro Rauh-Hain, MD MPG
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Jason Wright, MD
Columbia University
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