Dr. Brian Coleman

Biography

Brian C. Coleman is a clinician-scientist with primary interests in clinical informatics and pain research. He has a background in biomedical engineering and chiropractic, which has supported his early career work focusing on data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing of electronic health record data. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, emphasizing the application of machine learning and natural language processing in data collected from chiropractic clinics. Recently, he published findings on responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in clinical research, contributing to the assessment of individual impacts in pragmatic clinical trial studies. Coleman’s work has particularly focused on pain care clinical research at the Veterans Health Administration as part of the Pain Research, Informatics, Multimorbidities, Education (PRIME) Center in VA Connecticut. His responsibilities include collaboration with the VA's National Chiropractic Program Office and involvement in several research initiatives, including the NIH-DOD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center. In addition, he provides chiropractic care to U.S. military veterans at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System.

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