Daniel C. Chen, MD, MSc

Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Daniel Chen, MD, MSc, Medicine/GIM, is a clinician-educator whose scholarship focuses on evaluation and measurement of medical student empathy. He serves as an assistant dean for student affairs and course director for the Research Elective in Biomedical Sciences. He mentors medical residents and students regularly and teaches medical students rotating through internal medicine clerkship. Dr. Chen has made instrumental contributions to medical education in establishing and advancing the study of empathy among medical students. He was one of the first researchers to use the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy and his work demonstrating a decrease in medical student empathy has resulted in medical curriculum changes.

Publications

  • Published 3/30/2026

    Goryachev SD, Wu JT, Lin E, Friedman DR, Zwolinski R, Dhond R, Elbers DC, La J, Yildirim C, Corrigan JK, Chen DCR, Brophy MT, Do NV, Fillmore NR. Rule-based natural language processing to extract clinical trial and research study enrollment history from unstructured notes. Health Informatics J. 2026; 32(1):14604582261430614. PMID: 41912375.

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  • Published 10/16/2025

    Henke RM, Head MA, Smith LeBeau L, Benevent R, Davenport MJ, Camacho-Cook J, White MC, Mulvaney-Day N, Gibson TB, Sarpong A, Roth C, Banducci AN, Chen DCR, Stein MD, Meng F, Hyde J, Livingston NA. Behavioral health telehealth utilization during the pandemic among adults with opioid use disorder and behavioral health utilization in the year prior to COVID-19: Differences by payor source, treatment type, and patient demographics. Psychol Serv. 2026 Feb; 23(1):183-195. PMID: 41100287.

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  • Published 8/7/2025

    Culnan JM, Goryachev SD, Bihn JR, Lee G, Chen DCR, Soloviev O, Zwolinski R, Dulberger KN, Do NV, Paller CJ, Cooperberg MR, Fillmore NR. Automated Extraction of Imaging and Pathology Data From Diverse Prostate Cancer Electronic Records. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2025 Aug; 9:e2500085. PMID: 40773714.

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  • Published 10/31/2023

    Meisel JL, Chen DCR, Cohen GM, Bernard SA, Carmona H, Petrusa ER, Opole IO, Navedo D, Valtchinov VI, Nahas AH, Eiduson CM, Papps N. Listen Before You Auscultate: An Active-Learning Approach to Bedside Cardiac Assessment. MedEdPORTAL. 2023; 19:11362. PMID: 37915746.

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  • Published 1/10/2023

    Li A, La J, May SB, Guffey D, da Costa WL, Amos CI, Bandyo R, Milner EM, Kurian KM, Chen DCR, Do NV, Granada C, Riaz N, Brophy MT, Chitalia V, Gaziano JM, Garcia DA, Carrier M, Flowers CR, Zakai NA, Fillmore NR. Derivation and Validation of a Clinical Risk Assessment Model for Cancer-Associated Thrombosis in Two Unique US Health Care Systems. J Clin Oncol. 2023 Jun 01; 41(16):2926-2938. PMID: 36626707.

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Other Positions

  • Assistant Dean, Student Affairs
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Websites

Education

  • New York University School of Medicine, MD
  • Boston University School of Public Health, MSc
  • University of Pennsylvania, BA

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