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PubMed

• Development of a Human Evaluation Framework and Correlation with Automated Metrics for Natural Language Generation of Medical Diagnoses.
  Yanjun Gao, Samuel Tesch, Dmitriy Dligach, Anoop Mayampurath, Matthew M Churpek, Majid Afshar, Emma Croxford, Brian Patterson, Daniel To> ;Medrxiv. 2024 Apr 9
• Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Measures for Identifying Patients Requiring High-Intensity Care.
  Daniel C To, Tessa L Steel, Kyle A Carey, Cara J Joyce, Anoop Mayampurath, Elizabeth M Salisbury-Afshar, Dana P Edelson, Matthew M Churpek, Majid Afshar> ;Critical Care Explorations. 2024 Mar 1
• 1 citations
  Validation of SeptiCyte RAPID to Discriminate Sepsis from Non-Infectious Systemic Inflammation.
  Robert Balk, Annette M Esper, Greg S Martin, Russell R Miller 3rd, Bert K Lopansri, John P Burke, Mitchell Levy, Steven Opal, Richard E Rothman, Franco R D'Alessio, Ve...> ;Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2024 Feb 20
• Development and external validation of multimodal postoperative acute kidney injury risk machine learning models.
  Karway, G., Caskey, J., Spicer, A., Carey, K., Gilbert, E., Dligach, D., Mayampurath, A., Koyner, J., Afshar, M., Churpek, M.> ;JAMIA Open. 2023 Dec 1
• Creation of a data commons for substance misuse related health research through privacy-preserving patient record linkage between hospitals and state agencies.
  Majid Afshar, Madeline Oguss, Thomas A Callaci, Timothy Gruenloh, Preeti Gupta, Claire Sun, Askar Safipour Afshar, Joseph Cavanaugh, Matthew M Churpek, Edwin Nyakoe-Ny...> ;JAMIA Open. 2023 Dec 1
• Performance of International Classification of Disease-10 codes in detecting emergency department patients with opioid misuse.
  Neeraj Chhabra, Dale Smith, Paul Pachwicewicz, Sameer Bhalla, Caitlin M Maloney, Mennefer Blue, Brihat Sharma, Majid Afshar, Niranjan S Karnik, Lin, Y., Lee, P.> ;Addiction. 2024 Apr 1
• ASO Visual Abstract: Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage with Short- and Long-Term Outcomes After Pancreatectomy for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.
  Clayton T Marcinak, Roberto J Vidri, Amy K Taylor, John K Krebsbach, Kaleem S Ahmed, Noelle K LoConte, Patrick R Varley, Majid Afshar, Sharon M Weber, Daniel E Abbott,...> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2024 Jan 1
• Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage with Short- and Long-Term Outcomes After Pancreatectomy for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.
  Clayton T Marcinak, Roberto J Vidri, Amy K Taylor, John K Krebsbach, Kaleem S Ahmed, Noelle K LoConte, Patrick R Varley, Majid Afshar, Sharon M Weber, Daniel E Abbott,...> ;Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2024 Jan 1
• Improving model transferability for clinical note section classification models using continued pretraining.
  Weipeng Zhou, Meliha Yetisgen, Majid Afshar, Yanjun Gao, Guergana Savova, Timothy A Miller> ;Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2023 Dec 22
• Multi-Task Training with In-Domain Language Models for Diagnostic Reasoning.
  Brihat Sharma, Yanjun Gao, Timothy Miller, Matthew M Churpek, Majid Afshar, Dmitriy Dligach> ;Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting. 2023 Jul 1
• Playing in the clinical decision support sandbox: tools and training for all.
  Andrey Soares, Majid Afshar, Chris Moesel, Michael A Grasso, Eric Pan, Anthony Solomonides, Joshua E Richardson, Eleanor Barone, Edwin A Lomotan, Lisa M Schilling> ;JAMIA Open. 2023 Jul 1
• Improving the Transferability of Clinical Note Section Classification Models with BERT and Large Language Model Ensembles.
  Weipeng Zhou, Dmitriy Dligach, Majid Afshar, Yanjun Gao, Timothy A Miller> ;Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting. 2023 Jul 1
• 3 citations
  Overview of the Problem List Summarization (ProbSum) 2023 Shared Task on Summarizing Patients' Active Diagnoses and Problems from Electronic Health Record Progress Notes.
  Yanjun Gao, Dmitriy Dligach, Timothy Miller, Matthew M Churpek, Majid Afshar> ;Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting. 2023 Jul 1
• 1 citations
  Design and rationale of the CHILL phase II trial of hypothermia and neuromuscular blockade for acute respiratory distress syndrome.
  Carl B Shanholtz, Michael L Terrin, Thelma Harrington, Caleb Chan, Whittney Warren, Robert Walter, Faith Armstrong, Jeffrey Marshall, Rachel Scheraga, Abjihit Duggal, ...> ;Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. 2023 Jun 1
• 1 citations
  Improving Model Transferability for Clinical Note Section Classification Models Using Continued Pretraining.
  Weipeng Zhou, Meliha Yetisgen, Majid Afshar, Yanjun Gao, Guergana Savova, Timothy A Miller> ;Medrxiv. 2023 Apr 24
• 5 citations
  Deployment of Real-time Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning Clinical Decision Support in the Electronic Health Record: Pipeline Implementation for an Opioid ...
  Majid Afshar, Sabrina Adelaine, Felice Resnik, Marlon P Mundt, John Long, Margaret Leaf, Theodore Ampian, Graham J Wills, Benjamin Schnapp, Michael Chao, Randy Brown, ...> ;JMIR Medical Informatics. 2023 Apr 20
• Accuracy of models to prognosticate survival after surgery for pancreatic cancer in the era of neoadjuvant therapy.
  Clayton T Marcinak, William F Parker, Alexander A Parikh, Jashodeep Datta, Shishir K Maithel, David A Kooby, Mark E Burkard, Hong Jin Kim, Michael T LeCompte, Majid Af...> ;Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2023 Aug 1
• 1 citations
  Progress Note Understanding - Assessment and Plan Reasoning: Overview of the 2022 N2C2 Track 3 shared task.
  Yanjun Gao, Dmitriy Dligach, Timothy Miller, Matthew M Churpek, Ozlem Uzuner, Majid Afshar> ;Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2023 Jun 1
• Association between Substance Misuse and Outcomes in Critically III Patients with Pneumonia.
  Paul M Reynolds, Majid Afshar, Garth C Wright, P Michael Ho, Tyree H Kiser, Peter D Sottile, Meghan D Althoff, Marc Moss, Sarah E Jolley, R William Vandivier, Ellen L ...> ;Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 2023 Apr 1
• 2 citations
  DR.BENCH: Diagnostic Reasoning Benchmark for Clinical Natural Language Processing.
  Yanjun Gao, Dmitriy Dligach, Timothy Miller, John Caskey, Brihat Sharma, Matthew M Churpek, Majid Afshar> ;Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2023 Feb 1
• 1 citations
  Clinical Trial Design Innovations for Precision Medicine in Asthma.
  Salman Siddiqui, Elin Haf Davies, Majid Afshar, Loren C Denlinger> ;Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 2023 Jan 1
• 2 citations
  The Evaluation of a Clinical Decision Support Tool Using Natural Language Processing to Screen Hospitalized Adults for Unhealthy Substance Use: Protocol for a Quasi-Ex...
  Cara Joyce, Talar W Markossian, Jenna Nikolaides, Elisabeth Ramsey, Hale M Thompson, Juan C Rojas, Brihat Sharma, Dmitriy Dligach, Madeline K Oguss, Richard S Cooper, ...> ;JMIR Research Protocols. 2022 Dec 19
• Machine Learning Techniques to Explore Clinical Presentations of COVID-19 Severity and to Test the Association With Unhealthy Opioid Use: Retrospective Cross-sectional...
  Hale M Thompson, Brihat Sharma, Dale L Smith, Sameer Bhalla, Ihuoma Erondu, Aniruddha Hazra, Yousaf Ilyas, Paul Pachwicewicz, Neeral K Sheth, Neeraj Chhabra, Niranjan ...> ;JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 2022 Dec 8
• 6 citations
  Summarizing Patients' Problems from Hospital Progress Notes Using Pre-trained Sequence-to-Sequence Models.
  Yanjun Gao, Timothy Miller, Dongfang Xu, Dmitriy Dligach, Matthew M Churpek, Majid Afshar> ;Proceedings of COLING. International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2022 Oct 1
• 9 citations
  A scoping review of publicly available language tasks in clinical natural language processing.
  Yanjun Gao, Dmitriy Dligach, Leslie Christensen, Samuel Tesch, Ryan Laffin, Dongfang Xu, Timothy Miller, Ozlem Uzuner, Matthew M Churpek, Majid Afshar> ;Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2022 Sep 12
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Journal Articles

• The International Epidemiology of ARDS: How Can We Think Locally and Measure Globally?  
  Afshar M, Netzer G, Crit Care Med, 1/1/2013

Books/Book Chapters

• Vascular Emergencies: Expert Management for the Emergency Physician 
  Chapter: Upper Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis 
  Afshar M, Shah, NGEditors: Rogers, Scalea, Gopal, et al.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge2013

Abstracts/Posters

• Internal Validation of an Automated Electronic ARDS Screening Tool in Patients with Cirrhosis
  Formanek P, Yang P, Scaglione S, Zelisko S, Patel S, Cooper RC, Society of Critical Care Medicine 46th Annual Critical Care Congress, 1/1/2017
• Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Burn-Injured Adults: Clinical Risk Factors and Biomarkers from a Multi-Center Study
  Albright JM, Dunn, R, Ramirez L, Conrad P, Mosier MJ, Burnham EL, Kovacs EJ, American Thoracic Society, 1/1/2016
• Comparison of a novel coding algorithm versus the American Burn Association sepsis definition to examine the epidemiology of sepsis in burn-injured adults
  Rech MA, Mosier MJ, Zelisko S, Cooper RS, Netzer G, Kovacs EJ, American Thoracic Society, 1/1/2016
• Association Of Tobacco Exposure With Development Of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome In Burn-Injured Adults
  Williams A, Netzer G, Mosier MJ, Zelisko S, Kovacs EJ, Cooper RS, Durazo-Avizu R, Kliethermes S, American Thoracic Society, 1/1/2016
• Exhaled nitric oxide levels among adults with excessive alcohol consumption
  O’Poole JA, Cao G, Durazo R, Cooper RS, Kovacs EJ, Sisson JH, Alcohol. Clin. Exp. Res., 1/1/2016
• Phosphatidylethanol as a biomarker to identify patients with alcohol misuse
  Burnham EL, Kovacs EJ, Cooper RS, Yong M, Gaydos J, Clark BJ, Lowery EM, Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group Conference, 1/1/2016
• Risky Alcohol Use but Lower Injury Severity in Traumas with High Blood Alcohol Content
  Afshar M, Salisbury-Afshar Elizabeth, American Society of Addiction Medicine, 1/1/2015
• Trauma-associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Case-fatality: 2004-2011
  Smith GS, Murthi S, Cooper R, Netzer G, American Thoracic Society, 1/1/2015
• Trauma Indices and Patient Characteristics to Predict Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Trauma Patients
  Smith GS, Terrin ML, Lissauer ME, Anders MG, Netzer G, American Thoracic Society Scientific Session, 1/1/2014
• The Evaluation and Association of Blood Alcohol Content and Injury Severity with In-Hospital Death at a Statewide Referral Trauma Center
  Smith GS, Terrin ML, Lissauer ME, Netzer G, Research Society on Alcoholism, 1/1/2014
• Effects of acute alcohol intoxication on inflammation and sleep in healthy volunteers
  Wilkinson A, Netzer G, Smith GS, Hasday J, Verceles A, American Thoracic Society Scientific Session, 1/1/2013
• Barriers to early mobility in the ICU: Assessing the Rehabilitation Specialist’s Perspective
  Barrett M, Verceles A, Omanwa K, Johnson D, Lighty K, Netzer G, American Thoracic Society Scientific Session, 1/1/2013
• Immune Response In Healthy Human Volunteers After Binge Alcohol Consumption And Ex-vivo Phytohemagluttinin-M And fMetLeuPhe Stimulation
  Cross A, Netzer G, Hasday J, American Thoracic Society Scientific Session, 1/1/2013
• Association Of Acute Alcohol Exposure With Development Of Acute Lung Injury
  Smith GS, Terrin ML, Barrett M, Lissauer ME, Mansoor S, Jeudy J, Netzer G, American Thoracic Society Scientific Session, 1/1/2013
• Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Outcomes after Near-Hanging
  Mansoor S, Barrett M, Smith GS, Barr EA, Lissauer ME, Netzer G, CHEST Annual Meeting, 1/1/2013
• Tobacco use and airway obstruction in the Old Order Amish
  Netzer G, Bridges T, Hashmi S, Braxton M, Ryan K, Scharf S, Shuldiner AR, Reed RM, American Thoracic Society Scientific Session, 1/1/2012
• Oral hygiene and inflammatory bowel disease
  Singhal S, Farhadi A, Dian D, Keshavarzian A, American Journal of Gastroenterology, 1/1/2007
• Willingness of individuals with IBD to use complementary and alternative medicine
  Daian D. Farhadi A, Keshavarzian A, American Journal of Gastroenterology, 1/1/2007
• Use of prognosis markers, p53 and EGFR, in the early detection and diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma in the oral cavity
  Afshar M, Coon JS, Rush Research Symposium, 1/1/2004
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Lectures

• Better Automated Screening Methods for ARDS 
  Loyola University Lakeshore Campus - 1/1/2016
• Lost in Translation: Can Big Data Help Us Translate? 
  Loyola University Chicago - 1/1/2015
• NIH National Center for Translational Science (NCATS) and Loyola Center for Translational Science and Education (CTSE): Funding and Infrastructure 
  Loyola University Chicago - 1/1/2015
• Critical appraisal of the medical literature: Use of Evidence Based Medicine 
  University of Maryland - 1/1/2014
• The Evaluation and Association of Blood Alcohol Content and Injury Severity with In-Hospital Death at a Statewide Referral Trauma Center 
  Seattle, WA - 1/1/2014
• Urinary Biomarkers and Cytokine Response in Recent Drinkers Compared to Non-Drinkers after Binge Ethanol Dosing and Phytohemagluttinin-M (PHA) Stimulation 
  1/1/2013
• Association of Acute Alcohol Exposure and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome 
  Loyola University Medical Center - 1/1/2013
• Alcohol and the Critically Ill 
  University of Maryland - 1/1/2012
• Alcohol and Acute Lung Injury 
  University of Maryland - 1/1/2011
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Other

• Alcohol and the Lung 
  Afshar, M, Doctor Radio Siriux XM New York University
  1/28/2016
• The Side Effect of Binge Drinking Other Than a Hangover 
  Afshar, M, Men’s Health Magazine
  1/11/2015
• Booze Binge has immediate effect on immune system 
  Afshar, M, New Scientist Magazine
  1/9/2015
• Binge Drinking May Weaken Immune System 
  Afshar, M, WebMD
  1/5/2015
• Binge Drinking ‘Significantly’ Disrupts 20-Somethings Immune Systems: Study 
  Afshar, M, The Huffington Post
  1/31/2014
• How Those new year’s eve shots may trash your immune system 
  Afshar, M, NBCnews.com
  1/31/2014
• Binge Drinking Suppresses the Immune System 
  Afshar, M, Smithsonian Magazine
  1/30/2014
• How to stay healthy on New Year’s Eve – and Beyond: Why limiting alcohol is especially key during flu season 
  Afshar, M, Shape Magazine
  1/30/2014
• Binge drinking disrupts the immune system 
  Afshar, M, FoxNews
  1/29/2014
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