Mailing Address:
Harvard Medical School
Department of Population Medicine
133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02215
Richard_Platt@harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 509-9971
Fax: (617) 859-9853
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Richard Platt, MD, MSc
Dr. Platt is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Population Medicine. He is an internist trained in infectious diseases and epidemiology.
He is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges Advisory Panel on Research, the FDA Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee, and the IOM Roundtable on Evidenced Based Medicine. He has chaired the Executive Committee of the HMO Research Network, was co-chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the CDC's Center for Infectious Diseases, chaired the NIH study section, Epidemiology and Disease Control 2, and the CDC Office of Health Care Partnerships Steering Committee.
His research focuses on developing multi-institution automated record linkage systems for use in pharmacoepidemiology, and for population based surveillance, reporting, and control of both hospital and community acquired infections, including bioterrorism events.
He is Principal Investigator of the CDC sponsored Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics (www.phiconnect.org ), the AHRQ sponsored HMO Research Network Center for Education and Research in Therapeutics (CERT www.certs.hhs.gov ), an AHRQ sponosored HMO Research Network DEcIDE center (http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/decide), the CDC sponsored Eastern Massachusetts Prevention Epicenter, and an FDA contract to conduct post-marketing studies of drugs' safety and effectiveness. He is co-Principal Investigator of a Modeling Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Initiatives/MIDAS), and of the CDC sponsored Harvard Pilgrim/Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates Vaccine Safety Datalink program (http://www.cdc.gov/nip/vacsafe).
Selected Publications:
Lazarus R,Klompas M,Campion FX,McNabb SJ,Hou X,Daniel J,Haney G,DeMaria A,Lenert L,Platt R,.
Electronic Support for Public Health: validated case finding and reporting for notifiable diseases using electronic medical data
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J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2009 Jan;1:18-24
Velentgas P,Bohn RL,Brown JS,Chan KA,Gladowski P,Holick CN,Kramer JM,Nakasato C,Spettell CM,Walker AM,Zhang F,Platt R,.
A distributed research network model for post-marketing safety studies: the Meningococcal Vaccine Study23
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Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2008 Dec;12:1226-1234
Platt R,Madre L,Reynolds R,Tilson H,.
Active drug safety surveillance: a tool to improve public health27
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Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2008 Dec;12:1175-1182
Moore KM,Duddy A,Braun MM,Platt R,Brown JS,.
Potential population-based electronic data sources for rapid pandemic influenza vaccine adverse event detection: a survey of health plans
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Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2008 Dec;12:1137-1141
Go AS,Yang J,Gurwitz JH,Hsu J,Lane K,Platt R,.
Comparative effectiveness of different beta-adrenergic antagonists on mortality among adults with heart failure in clinical practice19
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Arch Intern Med. 2008 Dec 8;22:2415-2421
Johnson ES,Thorp ML,Platt RW,Smith DH,.
Predicting the risk of dialysis and transplant among patients with CKD: a retrospective cohort study34
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Am J Kidney Dis. 2008 Oct;4:653-660
Sabin JE,Mazor K,Meterko V,Goff SL,Platt R,.
Comparing drug effectiveness at health plans: the ethics of cluster randomized trials
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Hastings Cent Rep. 2008 Sep;5:39-48
Goodman ER,Platt R,Bass R,Onderdonk AB,Yokoe DS,Huang SS,.
Impact of an environmental cleaning intervention on the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci on surfaces in intensive care unit rooms32
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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008 Jul;7:593-599
Goff SL,Feld A,Andrade SE,Mahoney L,Beaton SJ,Boudreau DM,Davis RL,Goodman M,Hartsfield CL,Platt R,Roblin D,Smith D,Yood MU,Dodd K,Gurwitz JH,.
Administrative data used to identify patients with irritable bowel syndrome37
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J Clin Epidemiol. 2008 Jun;6:617-621
Meropol SB,Chan KA,Chen Z,Finkelstein JA,Hennessy S,Lautenbach E,Platt R,Schech SD,Shatin D,Metlay JP,.
Adverse events associated with prolonged antibiotic use
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Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2008 May;5:523-532
Klompas M,Kulldorff M,Platt R,.
Risk of misleading ventilator-associated pneumonia rates with use of standard clinical and microbiological criteria
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Clin Infect Dis. 2008 May 1;9:1443-1446
Huang SS,Diekema DJ,Warren DK,Zuccotti G,Winokur PL,Tendolkar S,Boyken L,Datta R,Jones RM,Ward MA,Aubrey T,Onderdonk AB,Garcia C,Platt R,.
Strain-relatedness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from patients with repeated infection42
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Clin Infect Dis. 2008 Apr 15;8:1241-1247
Andrade SE,Raebel MA,Brown J,Lane K,Livingston J,Boudreau D,Rolnick SJ,Roblin D,Smith DH,Dal Pan GJ,Scott PE,Platt R,.
Outpatient use of cardiovascular drugs during pregnancy56
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Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2008 Mar;3:240-247
Smith DH,Kramer JM,Perrin N,Platt R,Roblin DW,Lane K,Goodman M,Nelson WW,Yang X,Soumerai SB,.
A randomized trial of direct-to-patient communication to enhance adherence to beta-blocker therapy following myocardial infarction
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Arch Intern Med. 2008 Mar 10;5:477-483
Andrade SE,Raebel MA,Brown J,Lane K,Livingston J,Boudreau D,Rolnick SJ,Roblin D,Smith DH,Willy ME,Staffa JA,Platt R,.
Use of antidepressant medications during pregnancy: a multisite study72
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Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2008 Feb;2:194-195
Klompas M,Kleinman K,Platt R,.
Development of an algorithm for surveillance of ventilator-associated pneumonia with electronic data and comparison of algorithm results with clinician diagnoses
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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008 Jan;1:31-37
Klompas M,Haney G,Church D,Lazarus R,Hou X,Platt R,.
Automated identification of acute hepatitis B using electronic medical record data to facilitate public health surveillance
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PLoS ONE. 2008;7:e2626-
Holmes JH,Brown J,Hennessy S,Lane K,Langer RD,Lazarus R,O'Connor PJ,Strom BL,Platt R,.
Developing a distributed research network to conduct population-based studies and safety surveillance
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AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008;973-
Finkelstein JA,Huang SS,Kleinman K,Rifas-Shiman SL,Stille CJ,Daniel J,Schiff N,Steingard R,Soumerai SB,Ross-Degnan D,Goldmann D,Platt R,.
Impact of a 16-community trial to promote judicious antibiotic use in Massachusetts
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Pediatrics. 2008 Jan;1:e15-e23
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