Investigator, Instructor (M) General Internal Medicine, Mass General Research Institute

Instructor in Medicine Harvard Medical School

bupropion; choroid neoplasms; counseling; inpatients; nicotine; occupational health; smoking; smoking cessation; tobacco smoke pollution; warfarin

Susan Regan, PhD, collaborates with investigators across the Massachusettes General Hospital Division of General Internal Medicine, providing expertise in research methods, statistical analysis and data management. Her current focus is in HIV and tobacco research. Ongoing projects include data management and statistical analysis of data from several multicenter randomized controlled trials of smoking cessation interventions and international studies of  HIV screening and linkage to care.

Dr. Regan's interests include applying natural language processing, data mining and machine learning techniques to develop methods for longitudinal medical record data in observational studies. Her research involves developing algorithms for classifying patients on uncoded or inadequately coded characteristics such as smoking status, over the counter medication use and foreign born status.