Ben Reis, PhD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Faculty, Children's Hospital Informatics Program

Affiliated Faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

affiliation	Harvard Medical School Children's Hospital Boston Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
research	Predictive models of medicine (intelligenthistories.org) Pharmacovigilance and drug safety Network modeling Public health surveillance (aegis.chip.org) Social networks and health (www.healthysocial.org) History, Linguistics and Political informatics (www.speechwars.com)
clinical_interests	Abuse, Diabetes, Depression, IBD, Autism
address	1 Autumn St, Room 540.1 Boston MA, 02115
email	Ben_Reis at Havard.edu
phone	+1 857 218 4561
fax	+1-617-730-0921
publication	Reis BY, Kohane IS, Mandl, KD. Longitudinal histories as predictors of future diagnoses of domestic abuse: modelling study. BMJ, 2009. In Press. Freifeld CC, Mandl KD, Reis BY, Brownstein JS. HealthMap: global infectious disease monitoring through automated classification and visualization of Internet media reports. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008 Mar-Apr;15(2):150-7. Reis B.Y., Kirby C., Hadden L.E., Olson K., McMurry A.J., Daniel J.B., Mandl K.D. AEGIS: A Robust and Scalable Real-time Public Health Surveillance System. J Am Med Inform Assoc. Sep 2007. Reis B.Y., Kohane I.S., Mandl K.D. An epidemiological network model for disease outbreak detection. PLoS Med. 2007 Jun;4(6):e210. McMurry A.J., Gilbert C.A., Reis B.Y., Chueh H.C., Kohane I.S., Mandl K.D. A self-scaling, distributed architecture for public health, research, and clinical care. J Am Med Inform Assoc. July 2007. Fine A.M., Nigrovic L.E., Reis B.Y., Cook E.F., Mandl K.D. (2007) Linking Surveillance to Action: Incorporation of Real-time Regional Data into a Medical Decision Rule. J Am Med Inform Assoc. March 2007;14 (2):206-211. Reis B.Y., Brownstein J.S., Mandl K.D. (2005) Running outside the baseline: impact of the 2004 Major League Baseball postseason on emergency department use. Ann Emerg Med. 2005 Oct;46(4):386-7. Mandl K.D., Reis B.Y., Cassa C. (2004) Measuring outbreak detection performance using controlled feature set simulations. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Sep 24;53 Suppl:130-6. Reis B.Y., Mandl K.D. (2004) Syndromic surveillance: the effects of syndrome grouping on model accuracy and outbreak detection. Annals of Emergency Medicine. Sep;44(3):235-41. Beitel A.J., Olson K.L., Reis B.Y., Mandl K.D. (2004) Use of emergency department chief complaint and diagnostic codes for identifying respiratory illness in a pediatric population. Pediatric Emergency Care. Jun;20(6):355-60. Reis B.Y., Pagano M, Mandl K.D. (2003) Using temporal context to improve biosurveillance. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science U S A. 100(4):1961-1965. Reis B.Y., Mandl K.D. (2003) Time series modeling for syndromic surveillance. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. Jan 23;3(1):2. Butte A.J., Bao L., Reis B.Y., Watkins T.W., Kohane I.S. (2001) Comparing the similarity of time-series gene expression using signal processing metrics. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Dec;34(6):396-405. Reis B.Y., Butte A.J., Kohane I.S. (2001) Extracting knowledge from dynamics in gene expression. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Feb;34(1):15-27. Seung H.S., Lee D.D., Reis B.Y., Tank D.W. (2000) Stability of the memory of eye position in a recurrent network of conductance-based model neurons. Neuron. 26(1):259-71. Seung H.S., Lee D.D., Reis B.Y., Tank D.W. (2000) The autapse: a simple illustration of short-term analog memory storage by tuned synaptic feedback. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. Sep-Oct;9(2):171-85. Lee, D.D., Reis, B.Y., Seung, H.S., Tank, D.W. (1997) Nonlinear network models of the occulomotor integrator. Journal of Computational Neuroscience 5, 371.