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Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Ronilda Covar Lacson, MD, PhD

  • Research Scientist, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Research Interests and Projects

My research interests are in Spoken and Textual Natural Language Processing in Medicine, Consumer and Patient Informatics, and Predictive Modeling. Some of the projects I am currently involved in are

  • SDR: Spoken Dietary Records
  • Predictive Modeling in the Hemodialysis Domain
  • Textual Annotation of Biomedical Data

Past Projects

  • SMART: Scalable Medical Alert and Response Technology

Publications

See PubMed

Education and Training

  • B.S. Basic Medical Sciences, University of the Philippines
  • M.D., University of the Philippines
  • Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Medical Resident, Harbor Hospital Center, University of Maryland
  • M.S. Medical Informatics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D. Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Selected Professional Activities

Other Current and Past Positions

  • Intern and Medical Resident, Internal Medicine, Harbor Hospital Center, Baltimore, MD
  • Chief Medical Resident, Internal Medicine, Harbor Hospital Center, Baltimore, MD
  • Research Assistant, Health Sciences and Technology, MIT
  • Research Assistant, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT
  • Teaching Assistant, Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, Cambridge, MA
  • National Library of Medicine Medical Informatics Fellow, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
  • Research Affiliate, Clinical Decision Making Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT
  • Research Scientist, DSG, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Contact Information

Location
C1348, 900 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
Phone
617-732-6271
Email
rlacson at dsg dot harvard dot edu
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