Bruce E. Bray, M.D.

Bio

Dr. Bray is a Professor in the Departments of Medicine (Cardiovascular) and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Bray obtained a bachelor of science degree in biology and a medical degree from Loma Linda University. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Wright State University / Kettering Medical Center, and completed his Cardiovascular Disease fellowship at the University of Utah.

Dr. Bray is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Clinical Informatics and Echocardiography.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Office Locations

Academic Bio

Development and implementation of informatics tools in the health care environment; knowledge representation models and structured vocabularies for clinical medicine; medical expert systems and computerized practice guidelines; standards in medical informatics.

Research Statement

Knowledge management systems development and implementation; knowledge representation models and structured vocabularies for clinical medicine; medical expert systems and computerized practice guidelines; standards in medical informatics.

Education History

Selected Provider Publications

Journal Article

1. Meystre SM, Kim Y, Gobbel GT, Matheny ME, Redd A, Bray BE, Garvin JH (2016). Congestive heart failure information extraction framework for automated treatment performance measures assessment.LID - ocw097 [pii]LID - 10.1093/jamia/ocw097 [doi]. (Epub ahead of print) J Am Med Inform Assoc.
2. Hall JL, Ryan JJ, Bray BE, Brown C, Lanfear D, Newby LK, Relling MV, Risch NJ, Roden DM, Shaw SY, Tcheng JE, Tenenbaum J, Wang TN, Weintraub WS (2016). Merging Electronic Health Record Data and Genomics for Cardiovascular Research: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association. Circ Cardiovasc Genet, 9(2), 193-202.
3. Hall JL, Ryan JJ, Bray BE, Brown C, Lanfear D, Newby LK, RellingMV, Risch NJ, Roden DM, Shaw SY, Tcheng JE, Tenenbaum J, Wang TN, Weintraub WS (3/14/2016). Merging electronic health record data and genomics for cardiovascular research: a science advisory from the American Heart Association on behalf of the American Heart Association Professional and Public Education and Publications Committee of the Council on Functional Genomics and Translational Biology, Council on Clinical Cardiology, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research, and Stroke Council. Genet. DOI: 10.1161/HCG.0000000000000029. Circ Cardiovasc Genet, 2016;9(ePub), 2016;9:XXX–XXX..
4. Meystre SM, Kim Y, Heavirland J, Williams J, Bray BE, Garvin J (2015). Heart Failure Medications Detection and Prescription Status Classification in Clinical Narrative Documents. Stud Health Technol Inform, 216, 609-13.
5. Kawamoto K, Martin CJ, Williams K, Tu MC, Park CG, Hunter C, Staes CJ, Bray BE, Deshmukh VG, Holbrook RA, Morris SJ, Fedderson MB, Sletta A, Turnbull J, Mulvihill SJ, Crabtree GL, Entwistle DE, McKenna QL, Strong MB, Pendleton RC, Lee VS (2015). Value Driven Outcomes (VDO): a pragmatic, modular, and extensible software framework for understanding and improving health care costs and outcomes. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 22(1), 223-35.
6. Archer M, Proulx J, Shane-McWhorter L, Bray BE, Zeng-Treitler Q (2014). Development of an Alert System to Detect Drug Interactions with Herbal Supplements using Medical Record Data. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2014, 249-55.
7. Kukhareva PV, Kawamoto K, Shields DE, Barfuss DT, Halley AM, Tippetts TJ, Warner PB, Bray BE, Staes CJ (2014). Clinical Decision Support-based Quality Measurement (CDS-QM) Framework: Prototype Implementation, Evaluation, and Future Directions. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2014, 825-34.
8. AbdelRahman SE, Zhang M, Bray BE, Kawamoto K (2014). A three-step approach for the derivation and validation of high-performing predictive models using an operational dataset: congestive heart failure readmission case study. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak, 14, 41.
9. Brownstein CA, Beggs AH, Homer N, Merriman B, Yu TW, Flannery KC, DeChene ET, Towne MC, Savage SK, Price EN, Holm IA, Luquette LJ, Lyon E, Majzoub J, Neupert P, McCallie D Jr, Szolovits P, Willard HF, Mendelsohn NJ, Temme R, Finkel RS, Yum SW, Medne L, Sunyaev SR, Adzhubey I, Cassa CA, de Bakker PI, Duzkale H, Dworzynski P, Fairbrother W, Francioli L, Funke BH, Giovanni MA, Handsaker RE, Lage K, Lebo MS, Lek M, Leshchiner I, MacArthur DG, McLaughlin HM, Murray MF, Pers TH, Polak PP, Raychaudhuri S, Rehm HL, Soemedi R, Stitziel NO, Vestecka S, Supper J, Gugenmus C, Klocke B, Hahn A, Schubach M, Menzel M, Biskup S, Freisinger P, Deng M, Braun M, Perner S, Smith RJ, Andorf JL, Huang J, Ryckman K, Sheffield VC, Stone EM, Bair T, Black-Ziegelbein EA, Braun TA, Darbro B, DeLuca AP, Kolbe DL, Scheetz TE, Shearer AE, Sompallae R, Wang K, Bassuk AG, Edens E, Mathews K, Moore SA, Shchelochkov OA, Trapane P, Bossler A, Campbell CA, Heusel JW, Kwitek A, Maga T, Panzer K, Wassink T, Van Daele D, Azaiez H, Booth K, Meyer N, Segal MM, Williams MS, Tromp G, White P, Corsmeier D, Fitzgerald-Butt S, Herman G, Lamb-Thrush D, McBride KL, Newsom D, Pierson CR, Rakowsky AT, Maver A, Lovrecic L, Palandacic A, Peterlin B, Torkamani A, Wedell A, Huss M, Alexeyenko A, Lindvall JM, Magnusson M, Nilsson D, Stranneheim H, Taylan F, Gilissen C, Hoischen A, van Bon B, Yntema H, Nelen M, Zhang W, Sager J, Zhang L, Blair K, Kural D, Cariaso M, Lennon GG, Javed A, Agrawal S, Ng PC, Sandhu KS, Krishna S, Veeramachaneni V, Isakov O, Halperin E, Friedman E, Shomron N, Glusman G, Roach JC, Caballero J, Cox HC, Mauldin D, Ament SA, Rowen L, Richards DR, San Lucas FA, Gonzalez-Garay ML, Caskey CT, Bai Y, Huang Y, Fang F, Zhang Y, Wang Z, Barrera J, Garcia-Lobo JM, Gonzalez-Lamuno D, Llorca J, Rodriguez MC, Varela I, Reese MG, De La Vega FM, Kiruluta E, Cargill M, Hart RK, Sorenson JM, Lyon GJ, Stevenson DA, Bray BE, Moore BM, Eilbeck K, Yandell M, Zhao H, Hou L, Chen X, Yan X, Chen M, Li C, Yang C, Gunel M, Li P, Kong Y, Alexander AC, Albertyn ZI, Boycott KM, Bulman DE, Gordon PM, Innes AM, Knoppers BM, Majewski J, Marshall CR, Parboosingh JS, Sawyer SL, Samuels ME, Schwartzentruber J, Kohane IS, Margulies DM (2014). An international effort towards developing standards for best practices in analysis, interpretation and reporting of clinical genome sequencing results in the CLARITY Challenge. Genome Biol, 15(3), R53.
10. Fillmore CL, Bray BE, Kawamoto K (2013). Systematic review of clinical decision support interventions with potential for inpatient cost reduction. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak, 13, 135.
11. Bui D, Nakamura C, Bray BE, Zeng-Treitler Q (2012). Automated illustration of patients instructions. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2012, 1158-67.
12. Garvin JH, DuVall SL, South BR, Bray BE, Bolton D, Heavirland J, Pickard S, Heidenreich P, Shen S, Weir C, Samore M, Goldstein MK (2012). Automated extraction of ejection fraction for quality measurement using regular expressions in Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) for heart failure. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 19(5), 859-66.
13. Scarton LA, Zeng Q, Bray BE, Shane-McWhorter L (2011). Feasibility and potential benefit of collecting Complementary and Alternative Medicine data through a computerized patient interview. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2011, 1217-23.
14. Kandula S, Zeng-Treitler Q, Chen L, Salomon WL, Bray BE (2011). A bootstrapping algorithm to improve cohort identification using structured data. J Biomed Inform, 44 Suppl 1, S63-8.
15. Fiszman M, Bray BE, Shin D, Kilicoglu H, Bennett GC, Bodenreider O, Rindflesch TC (2010). Combining relevance assignment with quality of the evidence to support guideline development. Stud Health Technol Inform, 160(Pt 1), 709-13.
16. Bradshaw RL, Matney S, Livne OE, Bray BE, Mitchell JA, Narus SP (2009). Architecture of a federated query engine for heterogeneous resources. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2009, 70-4.
17. Deshmukh VG, Hoffman MA, Arnoldi C, Bray BE, Mitchell JA (2009). Efficiency of CYP2C9 genetic test representation for automated pharmacogenetic decision support. Methods Inf Med, 48(3), 282-90.
18. Fiszman M, Ortiz E, Bray BE, Rindflesch TC (2008). Semantic processing to support clinical guideline development. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 187-91.
19. Lin IK, Bray BE, Smith JA, Lange LL (2001). The feasibility of remote-controlled assistance as a search tool for patient education. Proc AMIA Symp, 378-82.
20. Margolis A, Bray BE, Gilbert EM, Warner HR (1995). Computerized practice guidelines for heart failure management: the HeartMan system. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care, 228-32.
21. Gill EA, Borrego C, Bray BE, Renlund DG, Hammond EH, Gilbert EM (1995). Left ventricular mass increases during cardiac allograft vascular rejection. J Am Coll Cardiol, 25(4), 922-6.
22. Huff SM, Rocha RA, Bray BE, Warner HR, Haug PJ (1995). An event model of medical information representation. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2(2), 116-34.
23. Bray BE, Anderson FL, Hardin CW, Kruger RA, Sutton RB, Nelson JA (1985). Digital subtraction coronary angiography using high-pass temporal filtration: a comparison with cineangiography. Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn, 11(1), 17-24.
24. Anderson JL, McIlvaine PM, Marshall HW, Bray BE, Yanowitz FG, Lutz JR, Menlove RL, Hagan AD (1984). Long-term follow-up after intracoronary streptokinase for myocardial infarction: a randomized, controlled study. Am Heart J, 108(6), 1402-8.
25. Anderson JL, Marshall HW, Bray BE, Lutz JR, Frederick PR, Yanowitz FG, Datz FL, Klausner SC, Hagan AD (1983). A randomized trial of intracoronary streptokinase in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med, 308(22), 1312-8.

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