Biography
Vivek Rudrapatna is a physician and a clinical data scientist. His research group works on developing new methods for analyzing electronic health records and other large datasets to uncover real-world evidence on treatment effects. Vivek is a practicing gastroenterologist and specializes in the treatment of patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). As a clinician, a researcher, and a patient, he is interested in the study of precision medicine as it pertains to this patient population. His group is working on the development of algorithms to predict which patients may be at greater risk for developing the condition and to optimize treatment selection for IBD patients. He hopes that this work may eventually lead to a future where we can prevent IBD altogether. Vivek received his AB from Harvard (2006), his MD/PhD from Mount Sinai (2014), internal medicine residency at Baylor College of Medicine (2016), and gastroenterology fellowship at UCSF (2020).