Welcome to my homepage. I am currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. I run the Fertility and Health Informatics Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. My UPenn lab website is located here
Latest information on my work can be found at the Fertility and Health Informatics Lab website.
I am also a member of the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
Recently Accepted Papers!!
1. MR Boland, NP Tatonetti Attention Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder and Month of School Enrollment. NEJM 2019;380(7):692-693.
2. J Moore, MR Boland, P Camara, G Gonzalez, B Himes, D Mowery, M Ritchie, L
Shen, R Urbanowicz, J Holmes. Preparing next generation scientists for
biomedical big data: Artificial intelligence approaches. Personalized Medicine. 2019
3. MR Boland. A Model Investigating Environmental
Factors that Play a Role in Female Fecundity or Birth Rate. PLOS ONE. 2018; In press.
4. MR Boland, A Kashyap, J Xiong, JH
Holmes, S Lorch. Development and Validation of the PEPPER Framework (Prenatal
Exposure PubMed ParsER) with Applications to Food Additives. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2018 In press.
5. R Duan, MR Boland*,
JH Moore, Y Chen. ODAL: A one-shot distributed algorithm to perform logistic
regressions on electronic health records data from multiple clinical sites. In Press at 2019 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. *Equal-contribution first-author
Education
PhD Biomedical Informatics, 2017 Columbia University, 2013-2017
Doctoral Thesis: Systems-Level Approach to Understand the Seasonal Factors of Early Development with Clinical and Pharmacological Applications
Doctoral Thesis: Systems-Level Approach to Understand the Seasonal Factors of Early Development with Clinical and Pharmacological Applications
MPhil Biomedical informatics, 2016 Columbia University.
MA Biomedical Informatics, 2012 Columbia University, 2010-2012
Masters Thesis: Associating Periodontal Diseases with Medical Conditions by Linking Medical and Dental Records
Masters Thesis: Associating Periodontal Diseases with Medical Conditions by Linking Medical and Dental Records
Undergraduate Thesis: Functional Annotation of Putatively Conserved Non-Coding Regions in B. floridae
Minors: Computer Science, History