Prabhu RV Shankar, M.D., M.S., M.R.C.P. (UK)

Prabhu RV Shankar, M.D., M.S., M.R.C.P. (UK)

Associate Adjunct Professor and Clinical Informatician, Division of Health Informatics

Reviews

Specialties

Clinical Informatics

Locations and Contact

Research/Academic Interests

Dr. Shankar's research focus include clinical decision support systems, electronic health records, predictive analytics, outcomes research, knowledge modeling, ontology development and its application for data standardization, integration and computer-assisted reasoning. His other passion is the application of evolving mobile health (mHealth) technologies in healthcare.

Division

Health Informatics

Center/Program Affiliation

Public Health Sciences
Clinical and Translational Science Center

Medical School

M.D., Mysore Medical College, Mysore, India 1989

Other School

M.R.C.P., Internal Medicine, Royal College of Physicians, London UK 1993

Other School

M.S., Health Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston TX 2003

Internship

KR Hospital, Mysore, Karnataka, India 1984-1985

Internship

Internal Medicine, Various Hospitals (UK), Manchester, Great Yarmouth, UK 1992-1993

Residency

Internal Medicine, KR Hospital, Mysore, Karnataka, India 1985-1989

Residency

Internal Medicine, Various Hospitals (UK), Kettering, Swindon, UK 1993-1998

Finalists, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded, Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs) initiated CD2H DREAM Challenge IDEA Competition, 2019

First Prize, the American Medical Informatics Association Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Working Group (AMIA KDDM WG) and the University of North Norway (UNN) sponsored international data competition to predict (Predictive Modeling) surgical site infections in post-operative patients using laboratory data using machine learning tools, AMIA Conference, 2016

Poster award, Pediatric Healthcare Innovation Conference, Emory University and Georgia Tech, 2014

Student Poster award, Annual Research Day poster contest, University of Texas at Houston, 2002

Valedictorian, Mysore, India, 1978

Golden award, SMART Cumulus Project, UC Tech Conference, 2024,

Access a full list of Prabhu Shankar's publications here.

McMurry AJ, Gottlieb DI, Miller TA, Jones JR, Atreja A, Shankar PRV, ... & Mandl KD. Cumulus: a federated electronic health record-based learning system powered by Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources and artificial intelligence, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. ocae130. 2024.

Jones JR, Gottlieb D, McMurry AJ, Atreja A, Desai PM, Shankar PRV, ... & Mandl KD. Real world performance of the 21st Century Cures Act population-level application programming interface, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2024; 31(5), 1144-1150.

Townsley SK, Basu D, Vora J, Wun T, Chuah CN, Shankar PRV. Predicting Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Risk in Cancer Patients Using Machine Learning, Journal of Health Care Science. 2023; DOI: 10.1002/hcs2.55, In Press.

Shankar SP, Grimsrud K, Lanoue L, Egense A, Willis B, Hörberg J, AlAbdi L, Mayer K, Ütkür K, Monaghan KG, Krier J, Stoler J, Alnemer M, Shankar PR, Schaffrath R, Alkuraya FS, Brinkmann U, Eriksson LA, Lloyd K, Rauen KA; Undiagnosed Diseases Network. A novel DPH5-related diphthamide-deficiency syndrome causing embryonic lethality or profound neurodevelopmental disorder. Genet Med. 2022 Apr 27:S1098-3600(22)00704-3. doi:10.1016/j.gim.2022.03.014. Epub ahead of print. PMID:35482014.

Shankar SP, Grimsrud K, Lanoue L, Egense A, Willis B, Shankar P, ... & Rauen KA. DPH5: A Novel gene causing diphthamide biosynthesis disorders, Journal of Investigative Medicine. Jan 2022; Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 236-236.

Shankar SP, Fallurin R, Watson T, Shankar PR, Young TL, Orel-Bixler D, Rauen KA. Ophthalmic manifestations in Costello syndrome caused by Ras pathway dysregulation during development. Ophthalmic Genet. 2022 Feb;43(1):48-57. doi:10.1080/13816810.2021.1978103. Epub 2021 Oct 6. PMID:34612139.

Vyas-Read S, Guglani L, Shankar P, Travers C, Kanaan U. Atrial Septal Defects Accelerate Pulmonary Hypertension Diagnoses in Premature Infants. Front Pediatr. 2018 Nov 23;6:342. doi:10.3389/fped.2018.00342. PMID:30533406.

Shankar PR. Predictive Modeling of Surgical Site Infections Using Sparse Laboratory Data. International J Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare (IJBDAH). 2018;3(1):13-26. doi:10.4018/IJBDAH.2018010102.

Pham A, Bluett E, Puthran P, Sarkar S, Kim K, Shankar P. First 28: Design of a Mobile App for Neonatal Health Risk Assessment and Support for New Mothers. Iproceedings. 2018; 4(2):e11740. 

Shankar P, Anderson N. Advances in Sharing Multi-sourced Health Data on Decision Support Science 2016-2017. Yearb Med Inform. 2018 Aug;27(1):16-24. doi:10.1055/s-0038-1641215. Epub 2018 Aug 29. PMID:30157504.