Dr. Platt is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. 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 recent publications:
- Platt R, Ommaya A. A beneficial side effect of the Medicare drug benefit. N Engl J Med. 2005;353(26):2742-3.
- Wagner AK, Chan KA, Dashevsky I, Raebel MA, Andrade SE, Lafata JE, Davis RL, Gurwitz JH, Soumerai SB, Platt R. FDA drug prescribing warnings: is the black box half empty or half full? Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2005 Nov 18; [Epub ahead of print]
- Ritzwoller DP, Kleinman K, Palen T, Abrams A, Kaferly J, Yih W, Platt R. Comparison of syndromic surveillance and a sentinel provider system in detecting an influenza outbreak--Denver, Colorado, 2003. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2005;54 Suppl:151-6.
- Daniel JB, Heisey-Grove D, Gadam P, Yih W, Mandl K, Demaria A Jr, Platt R. Connecting health departments and providers: syndromic surveillance's last mile. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2005;54 Suppl:147-50.
- Platt R. Toward better benchmarking. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2005;26(5):433-4.
- Davis RL, Kolczak M, Lewis E, Nordin J, Goodman M, Shay DK, Platt R, Black S, Shinefield H, Chen RT. Active surveillance of vaccine safety: a system to detect early signs of adverse events. Epidemiology. 2005;16(3):336-41.
- Yih WK, Caldwell B, Harmon R, Kleinman K, Lazarus R, Nelson A, Nordin J, Rehm B, Richter B, Ritzwoller D, Sherwood E, Platt R. National Bioterrorism Syndromic Surveillance Demonstration Program. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004;53 Suppl:43-9.
- Graham DJ, Staffa JA, Shatin D, Andrade SE, Schech SD, La Grenade L, Gurwitz JH, Chan KA, Goodman MJ, Platt R. Incidence of hospitalized rhabdomyolysis in patients treated with lipid-lowering drugs. JAMA. 2004;292(21):2585-90.
- Miner AL, Sands KE, Yokoe DS, Freedman J, Thompson K, Livingston JM, Platt R.
Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among outpatients. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004;10(11):1931-7.
- Yokoe DS, Noskin GA, Cunnigham SM, Zuccotti G, Plaskett T, Fraser VJ, Olsen MA, Tokars JI, Solomon S, Perl TM, Cosgrove SE, Tilson RS, Greenbaum M, Hooper DC, Sands KE, Tully J, Herwaldt L, Diekema DJ, Wong ES, Climo M, Platt R. Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among inpatients. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004;10(11):1924-30.
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