Dr. Cynthia Brandt

Professor

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Biography

Cynthia Brandt completed a general Preventive Medicine residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in 1989 and a post-doctoral fellowship sponsored by the National Library of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine in 1997. She is board-certified in Preventive Medicine and Clinical Informatics. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, focusing on issues related to the design and development of informatics tools in the domains of clinical research and health services research. She has built informatics infrastructure for clinical research, collaborating closely with clinical research groups and focusing on the management of clinical vocabularies used in research databases and the implementation of computerized clinical practice guidelines. Currently, she mentors and trains Yale's national library medicine informatics fellows and pre-doctoral students in various informatics domains, including clinical guidelines and health services research. She is leading a team in developing the Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center, which provides national leadership in conducting high-impact pragmatic clinical trials, particularly for non-drug approaches to managing pain within veteran and military healthcare systems.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor

2004-01-01 — Present

Yale School of Medicine • New Haven, CT

Cynthia Brandt serves as a Professor in the departments of Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics, focusing on the intersection of informatics and clinical research.

Requirements for Yale University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.5
GRE General
TOEFL
Listening
Required:25
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:100
IELTS
Speaking
Required:7.5
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, or Mathematics
Application Checklist
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  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Application fee ($105)
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Specialization Notes

Administered via the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). GRE General is optional for PhD.