Dr. David Chartash

Biography

David Chartash is a Lecturer in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. His research interests include the history and foundation of medical diagnosis and management, particularly focusing on the meticulous process of patient history-taking, confirmatory physical examination, and the use of ancillary investigations. Methodologically, he aims to model information from medical records and clinical encounters through approaches in cognitive science, computational linguistics, and complex systems science. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario, focusing on biomedical signals and systems analysis. He then completed a Master of Health Science in Clinical Engineering at the University of Toronto, while practicing as an engineer at the Toronto Health Economics Technology Assessment Collaborative. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Indiana University Bloomington, specializing in Medical Informatics and Complex Systems, and has been a fellow at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is also involved with the Melnick Informatics Lab and the MHS-CIDS Program at Yale, contributing to real-world evidence in acute care research.

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