Danne Elbers PhD
Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine
150 S Huntington Avenue | (617) 232-9500danne.elbers@va.gov
delbers@bu.edu
Sections
General Internal 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.
Education
Science, Technology, and Society, PhD, University of Vermont
Bioinformatics, MS, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Neuroscience/Neurology, BS, University of Amsterdam
Publications
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.
Published on 2/1/2025Rahafrooz 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.
Published on 7/1/2024Mohan A, Elbers D, Zilbershot O, Afghah F, Vorchheimer D. Deciphering Heartbeat Signatures: A Vision Transformer Approach to Explainable Atrial Fibrillation Detection from ECG Signals. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2024 Jul; 2024:1-6. PMID: 40039647.
Published on 2/2/2024Bihn 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.
Published on 1/25/2024Do 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.
Published on 1/25/2024Clark 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.
Published on 1/25/2024Elbers DC, Fillmore NR, La J, Tosi HM, Ajjarapu S, Dhond R, Murray K, Valley D, Shannon C, Brophy MT, Do NV. Building Research Infrastructure to Develop Greater Learning Efficiencies (BRIDGE). Stud Health Technol Inform. 2024 Jan 25; 310:1131-1135. PMID: 38269991.
Published on 1/10/2024Hernandez KM, Venkat A, Elbers DC, Bihn JR, Brophy MT, Do NV, La J, Liu Q, Prokhorenkov A, Metoki-Shlubsky N, Sung FC, Paller CJ, Fillmore NR, Grossman RL. Prostate cancer patient stratification by molecular signatures in the Veterans Precision Oncology Data Commons. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2023 Dec; 9(4). PMID: 38050021.
Published on 6/1/2023Martens KL, Li A, La J, May SB, Swinnerton KN, Tosi H, Elbers DC, Do NV, Brophy MT, Gaziano JM, Lotfollahzadeh S, Chitalia V, Ravid K, Fillmore NR. Epidemiology of Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With Solid and Hematologic Neoplasms in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jun 01; 6(6):e2317945. PMID: 37306999.
Published on 1/25/2023Elbers DC, La J, Minot JR, Gramling R, Brophy MT, Do NV, Fillmore NR, Dodds PS, Danforth CM. Sentiment analysis of medical record notes for lung cancer patients at the Department of Veterans Affairs. PLoS One. 2023; 18(1):e0280931. PMID: 36696437.