Instructor in Medicine
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Janick Weberpals, RPh, PhD, is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Investigator in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
His research interests focus on the comparative effectiveness and safety of cancer therapies and the development and application of novel methods to improve causal inference from highly integrated clinical data dimensions including electronic health records (EHR), images and unstructured notes. His most recent projects centered around missing data approaches in EHR, prognostics scores in oncology and applications of machine learning and deep learning networks (autoencoders) to improve confounding control in comparative effectiveness research. He has further conducted and published multiple studies on drug repurposing in oncology, time-dependent biases and long-term population-level cancer survival using national and European cancer registries.
Dr. Weberpals holds a pharmacy degree from Philipps-University Marburg, Germany, a board certification as specialized pharmacist in drug information and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.