Core Faculty
Emily O'Brien, PhD
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Degree
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
I am an epidemiologist and health services researcher at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. My research focuses on comparative effectiveness, patient-centered outcomes, and pragmatic health services research in cardiovascular and pulmonary disease.
Areas of expertise: Epidemiology, Health Services Research, and Clinical Decision Sciences
Linzer M, O’Brien EC, Sullivan E, Rathert C, Simmons DR, Johnson DH, et al. Burnout in modern-day health care: Where are we, and how can we markedly reduce it? A meta-narrative review from the EUREKA* project. Health Care Manage Rev. 2025 Apr;50(2):57–66.
Cheville A, Patil CL, Boyd AD, Crofford LJ, Dailey D, Martelly VD, et al. Collection of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Rural and Underserved Populations. Appl Clin Inform. 2025 Mar;16(2):259–66.
Lusk JB, O’Brien EC, Hammill BG, Li F, Mac Grory B, Patel MR, et al. Random Survival Forest Machine Learning for the Prediction of Cardiovascular Events Among Patients With a Measured Lipoprotein(a) Level: A Model Development Study. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2025 Feb;18(1):e004629.
