Danne Elbers, PhD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Danne C. Elbers, PhD serves as the Associate Director for Data Engineering and Bioinformatics in the Cooperative Studies Program Informatics Center at the VA Boston Healthcare System. In this capacity, she has focused on building a learning healthcare system through translating research workflows, algorithms and outcomes into clinical care utilizing the VA’s large clinical, genomic, and imaging databases.
Her research portfolio includes sharing clinical, genomic, and imaging data through the Precision Oncology Data Repository and Cancer Moonshot efforts; establishing robust internal application infrastructure that enables clinician-facing applications and, translating research outcomes back into the clinic in accordance with learning healthcare system principles.
Recently, she received the Federal Women’s Empowerment award, underscoring her efforts in creating a strong engineering in research environment.

Publications

  • Published 2/21/2025

    Swinnerton K, Fillmore NR, Vo A, La J, Elbers D, Brophy M, Do NV, Monach PA, Branch-Elliman W. Leveraging near-real-time patient and population data to incorporate fluctuating risk of severe COVID-19: development and prospective validation of a personalised risk prediction tool. EClinicalMedicine. 2025 Mar; 81:103114. PMID: 40070694.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 2/1/2025

    Rahafrooz M, Elbers DC, Gopal JR, Ren J, Chan NH, Yildirim C, Desai AS, Santos AA, Murray K, Havighurst T, Udell JA, Farkouh ME, Cooper L, Gaziano JM, Vardeny O, Mao L, Kim K, Gagnon DR, Solomon SD, Joseph J. Effectiveness of electronic medical record-based strategies for death and hospital admission endpoint capture in pragmatic clinical trials. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2025 Feb 01; 32(2):349-356. PMID: 39671451.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 2/2/2024

    Bihn JR, Cioffi G, Waite KA, Kruchko C, Neff C, Price M, Ostrom QT, Swinnerton KN, Elbers DC, Mooney MA, Rachlin J, Stein TD, Brophy MT, Do NV, Ferguson RE, Priemer DS, Perl DP, Hickman RA, Nabors B, Rusiecki J, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Fillmore NR. Brain tumors in United States military veterans. Neuro Oncol. 2024 Feb 02; 26(2):387-396. PMID: 37738677.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 1/25/2024

    Do NV, Elbers DC, Fillmore NR, Ajjarapu S, Bergstrom SJ, Bihn J, Corrigan JK, Dhond R, Dipietro S, Dolgin A, Feldman TC, Goryachev SD, Huhmann LB, La J, Marcantonio PA, McGrath KM, Miller SJ, Nguyen VQ, Schneeloch GR, Sung FC, Swinnerton KN, Tarren AH, Tosi HM, Valley D, Vo AD, Yildirim C, Zheng C, Zwolinski R, Sarosy GA, Loose D, Shannon C, Brophy MT. Matching Patients to Accelerate Clinical Trials (MPACT): Enabling Technology for Oncology Clinical Trial Workflow. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2024 Jan 25; 310:1086-1090. PMID: 38269982.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 1/25/2024

    Clark M, Meyer C, Ramos-Cejudo J, Elbers DC, Pierce-Murray K, Fricks R, Alterovitz G, Rao L, Brophy MT, Do NV, Grossman RL, Fillmore NR. Transfer Learning for Mortality Prediction in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with Low-Resolution Histopathology Slide Snapshots. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2024 Jan 25; 310:735-739. PMID: 38269906.

    Read at: PubMed

View All 19 Publications:   View Full Profile in BUMC

Websites

Education

  • University of Vermont, PhD
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, MS
  • University of Amsterdam, BS

View all profiles