Vivek Rudrapatna, MD, PhD
Vivek Rudrapatna obtained his MD and PhD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, followed by a residency in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and a fellowship in gastroenterology at UCSF. He joined the UCSF faculty in 2020 as a physician scientist. He spends part of his time as a gastroenterologist and inflammatory bowel disease specialist, and spends the remainder as a clinical data science investigator at the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. His research team develops methods for using clinical data to uncover real-world evidence on treatment effects and advance the goals of precision medicine across use cases.
The Real-World Evidence Laboratory
Our group uses a variety of machine learning and biostatistical methods, such as natural language processing, deep learning, and causal inference, to transform electronic health records data into real-world evidence on treatment effects.