Bruce E. Bray,
MD
Languages Spoken: English
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.
Clinical Locations
Cardiovascular Center
801-585-7676
Specialties
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Biomedical Informatics
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Professor (Clinical) Internal Medicine - Professor (Clinical) Nursing - Adjunct Associate Professor |
| Academic Divisions | Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Board Certification | American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine) American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Cardiovascular Disease) American Board of Preventive Medicine (Clinical Informatics) National Board of Medical Examiners |
Patient Rating
The Patient Rating score is an average of all responses to care provider related questions on our nationally-recognized Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survey.
Responses are measured on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being the best score.
Likelihood of recommending care provider
4.8/ 5
Care provider's explanation of condition/problem
4.8/ 5
Care provider's effort to include me in decisions
4.7/ 5
Wait time at clinic
4.5/ 5
Care provider's concern for questions & worries
4.7/ 5
Patient Comments
Patient comments are gathered from our Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survery and displayed in their entirety. Patients are de-identified for confidentiality and patient privacy.
UofU Patient
July 16, 2022
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
Good
UofU Patient
June 11, 2022
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
Very impressed
UofU Patient
November 13, 2021
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
Horrible bedside manner
UofU Patient
August 16, 2021
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
It was my first meeting with Dr. Bray. He was prepared to discuss my condition, listened to my questions and concerns, and carefully addressed each in turn. We were impressed that he was attentive and thorough.
UofU Patient
July 17, 2021
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
Good
UofU Patient
May 15, 2021
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
recommend what to talk to PCP about
UofU Patient
January 17, 2021
UH HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
good
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.
Academic Locations
Research Statement
Knowledge management systems for healthcare; Clinical decision support systems; Standards for clinical informatics; Translational informatics research..
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Biomedical Informatics
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Professor (Clinical) Internal Medicine - Professor (Clinical) Nursing - Adjunct Associate Professor |
| Academic Divisions | Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Board Certification | American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine) American Board of Internal Medicine (Sub: Cardiovascular Disease) American Board of Preventive Medicine (Clinical Informatics) National Board of Medical Examiners |
Research Interests
- Clinical Informatics
- Echocardiography
- Population Health Management and Quality Improvement
Education History
| Fellowship | University of Utah School of Medicine Cardiology Fellow, 1983 |
| Residency | Wright State University/Kettering Medical Center Internal Medicine Resident, 1980 |
| Professional Medical | Loma Linda University Medicine M.D., 1977 |
| Undergraduate | Loma Linda University Biology B.S., 1977 |
Selected Publications - Journal Articles
Journal Article
- Brown JR, Ricket IM, Reeves RM, Shah RU, Goodrich CA, Gobbel G, Stabler ME, Perkins AM, Minter F, Cox KC, Dorn C, Denton J, Bray BE, Gouripeddi R, Higgins J, Chapman WW, MacKenzie T, Matheny ME (2022). Information Extraction From Electronic Health Records to Predict Readmission Following Acute Myocardial Infarction: Does Natural Language Processing Using Clinical Notes Improve Prediction of Readmission? J Am Heart Assoc, 11(7), e024198.
- Wesoowski S, Lemmon G, Hernandez EJ, Henrie A, Miller TA, Weyhrauch D, Puchalski MD, Bray BE, Shah RU, Deshmukh VG, Delaney R, Yostl HJ, Eilbeck K, Tristani-Firouzi M, Yandell M (2022). An explainable artificial intelligence approach for predicting cardiovascular outcomes using electronic health records. PLOS Digit Health, 1(1).
- Williams M, Bray BE, Greenes RA, McCusker J, Middleton B, Perry G, Platt J, Richesson RL, Rubin JC, Wheeler T (2021). Summary of fourth annual MCBK public meeting: Mobilizing computable biomedical knowledge-metadata and trust. Learn Health Syst, 6(1), e10301.
- Reeves RM, Christensen L, Brown JR, Conway M, Levis M, Gobbel GT, Shah RU, Goodrich C, Ricket I, Minter F, Bohm A, Bray BE, Matheny ME, Chapman W (2021). Adaptation of an NLP system to a new healthcare environment to identify social determinants of health. J Biomed Inform, 120, 103851.
- Alper BS, Flynn A, Bray BE, Conte ML, Eldredge C, Gold S, Greenes RA, Haug P, Jacoby K, Koru G, McClay J, Sainvil ML, Sottara D, Tuttle M, Visweswaran S, Yurk RA (2021). Categorizing metadata to help mobilize computable biomedical knowledge. Learn Health Syst, 6(1), e10271.
- Shao Y, Cheng Y, Shah RU, Weir CR, Bray BE, Zeng-Treitler Q (2021). Shedding Light on the Black Box: Explaining Deep Neural Network Prediction of Clinical Outcomes. J Med Syst, 45(1), 5.
- Matheny ME, Ricket I, Goodrich CA, Shah RU, Stabler ME, Perkins AM, Dorn C, Denton J, Bray BE, Gouripeddi R, Higgins J, Chapman WW, MacKenzie TA, Brown JR (2021). Development of Electronic Health Record-Based Prediction Models for 30-Day Readmission Risk Among Patients Hospitalized for Acute Myocardial Infarction. JAMA Netw Open, 4(1), e2035782.
- Williams M, Richesson RL, Bray BE, Greenes RA, McIntosh LD, Middleton B, Perry G, Platt J, Shaffer C (2020). Summary of third annual MCBK public meeting: Mobilizing computable biomedical knowledge-Accelerating the second knowledge revolution. Learn Health Syst, 5(1), e10255.
- Ye X, Zeng QT, Facelli JC, Brixner DI, Conway M, Bray BE (2020). Predicting Optimal Hypertension Treatment Pathways Using Recurrent Neural Networks. Int J Med Inform, 139, 104122.
- Kalsy M, Kelly N, Meystre SM, Kim Y, Bray BE, Bolton D, Goldstein MK, Garvin JH (2020). Stakeholder Engagement for a Planned Automated Quality Measurement System. Sage Open, 10(2), 1-13.
- Morid MA, Sheng ORL, Del Fiol G, Facelli JC, Bray BE, Abdelrahman S (2020). Temporal Pattern Detection to Predict Adverse Events in Critical Care: Case Study With Acute Kidney Injury. JMIR Med Inform, 8(3), e14272.
- Richesson RL, Bray BE, Dymek C, Greenes RA, McIntosh LD, Middleton B, Perry G, Platt J, Shaffer C (2020). Summary of second annual MCBK public meeting: Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge-A movement to accelerate translation of knowledge into action. Learn Health Syst, 4(2), e10222.
- Doing-Harris K, Bray BE, Thackeray A, Shah RU, Shao Y, Cheng Y, Zeng-Treitler Q, Garvin JH, Weir C (2019). Development of a cardiac-centered frailty ontology. J Biomed Semantics, 10(1), 3.
- Kawamanto K, Flynn MC, Kukhareva P, ElHalta D, Hess R, Gregory T, Walls C, Wigren AM, Borbolla D, Bray BE, Parsons MH, Clayson BL, Briley MS, Stipelman CH, Taylor D, King CS, Del Fiol G, Reese TJ, Weir CR, Taft T, Strong MB (2018). A Pragmatic Guide to Establishing Clinical Decision Support Governance and Addressing Decision Support Fatigue: a Case Study. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2018, 624-633.
- Meystre SM, Kim Y, Gobbel GT, Matheny ME, Redd A, Bray BE, Garvin JH (2017). Congestive heart failure information extraction framework for automated treatment performance measures assessment. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 24(e1), e40-e46.
- 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, 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 (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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, Dworzyski 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, Lovrei L, Palandai 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, Gonzlez-Lamuo 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bui D, Nakamura C, Bray BE, Zeng-Treitler Q (2012). Automated illustration of patients instructions. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2012, 1158-67.
- 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-S68.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Fiszman M, Ortiz E, Bray BE, Rindflesch TC (2008). Semantic processing to support clinical guideline development. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 187-91.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sharp SD, Mason JW, Bray B (1992). Comparison of ST depression recorded by Holter monitors and 12-lead ECGs during coronary angiography and exercise testing. J Electrocardiol, 25(4), 323-31.
- Fu LS, Huff S, Bouhaddou O, Bray B, Warner H (1991). Estimating frequency of disease findings from combined hospital databases: a UMLS project. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care, 373-7.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.