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Association of intracranial aneurysm rupture with smoking duration, intensity, and cessation

Anil Can, Victor M. Castro, Yildirim H. Ozdemir, Sarajune Dagen, Sheng Yu, Dmitriy Dligach, Sean Finan, Vivian Gainer, Nancy A. Shadick, Shawn Murphy, Tianxi Cai, Guergana Savova, Ruben Dammers, Scott T. Weiss, Rose Du
First published August 30, 2017, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000004419
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vol. 89 no. 13 1408-1415
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000004419
PubMed: 
28855408
Published By: 
Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American Academy of Neurology
Print ISSN: 
0028-3878
Online ISSN: 
1526-632X
History: 
  • Received February 14, 2017
  • Accepted in final form June 26, 2017
  • First Published August 30, 2017.

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© 2017 American Academy of Neurology

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    1. Anil Can, MD,
    2. Victor M. Castro, MS,
    3. Yildirim H. Ozdemir, BA,
    4. Sarajune Dagen, RN,
    5. Sheng Yu, PhD,
    6. Dmitriy Dligach, PhD,
    7. Sean Finan, BS,
    8. Vivian Gainer, MS,
    9. Nancy A. Shadick, MD, MPH,
    10. Shawn Murphy, MD, PhD,
    11. Tianxi Cai, PhD,
    12. Guergana Savova, PhD,
    13. Ruben Dammers, MD, PhD,
    14. Scott T. Weiss, MD and
    15. Rose Du, MD, PhD
  1. Anil Can, MD,
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  2. Victor M. Castro, MS,
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    1. NONE

    Employment, Commercial Entity:

    1. Partners Healthcare, Data Analyst, 7 years

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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    1. Partners Healthcare, primary employer

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    1. NIH Funding

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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  3. Yildirim H. Ozdemir, BA,
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  4. Sarajune Dagen, RN,
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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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  5. Sheng Yu, PhD,
    6. Scientific Advisory Boards:

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    1. NONE

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    1. (1) a search engine patent that utilizes sentence parsing structures

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  6. Dmitriy Dligach, PhD,
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  7. Sean Finan, BS,
    8. Scientific Advisory Boards:

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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  8. Vivian Gainer, MS,
    9. Scientific Advisory Boards:

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  9. Nancy A. Shadick, MD, MPH,
    10. Scientific Advisory Boards:

    1. NONE

    Gifts:

    1. NONE

    Funding for travel or speaker honoraria:

    1. Travel to a scientific meeting (<$5K) by Bristol Myers Squibb

    Editorial Boards:

    1. Editorial Board of European Journal of Rheumatology

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    1. NONE

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    1. Consultant for BMS (<$5K)

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

    Research Support, Commercial Entities:

    1. Research grants to the Brigham & Women's Hospital from UCB, AMGEN, BMS, DxTerity, Crescendo Biosciences

    Research Support, Government Entities:

    1. co investigators, 2015-2107, NIH-NIAMS K24-AR055989, NIH 1 RO1 GK127118-01A1, and NIH P30 AR070253-01.

    Research Support, Academic Entities:

    1. NONE

    Research Support, Foundations and Societies:

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  10. Shawn Murphy, MD, PhD,
    11. Scientific Advisory Boards:

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    Gifts:

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

    Employment, Commercial Entity:

    1. NONE

    Consultancies:

    1. trinetx, commercial

    Speakers' Bureaus:

    1. NONE

    Other Activities:

    1. NONE

    Clinical Procedures or Imaging Studies:

    1. NONE

    Research Support, Commercial Entities:

    1. NONE

    Research Support, Government Entities:

    1. NIH R01 EB014947, PI NIH U54 LM008748, co-I NIH U01 HG008685, PI PCORI 282364.5077585.0007, PI NIH U54 HG007963, PI PCORI 224125.5095317.0004, site PI PCORI 24126.5095369.0004, site PI NIH RO1 HG009174, PI NIH OT2 0D024612, PI NIH UL1 RR024153, co-I NIH U54 HL117798, co_I

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    Legal Proceedings:

    1. NONE

  11. Tianxi Cai, PhD,
    12. Scientific Advisory Boards:

    1. NONE

    Gifts:

    1. NONE

    Funding for Travel or Speaker Honoraria:

    1. NONE

    Editorial Boards:

    1. NONE

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    1. U54 HG007963 from NIGMS

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  12. Guergana Savova, PhD,
    13. Scientific Advisory Boards:

    1. Wired Informatics, commercial. Advisory board

    Gifts:

    1. NONE

    Funding for travel or speaker honoraria:

    1. non-commercial VA, Washington DC -> travel covered NCI, Washington DC -> travel covered Cincinnati's Children's Hospital -> travel covered + honorarium University of Pittsburg -> travel covered University of Texas-Houston -> travel covered

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    1. UCSF, non-profit, consultant National Library of Medicine, study section member

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    1. Wired Informatics, commercial. Share holder

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    1. Extended Methods and Software Development for Health NLP R01GM114355, NIGMS, NIH Role: MPI Cancer Deep Phenotype Extraction form Electronic Medical Records (admin supplement) 5U24CA184407-02; NIH/NCI Role: MPI Data Fusion: A Sustainable, Scalable, Open Source Registry Advancing PVD Research (admin supplement) 3U01HL121518 - 02W1, NHLBI, NIH Role: Co-investigator Scalable Collaborative Infrastructure for a Learning Healthcare system (SCILHS_CDRN) - Phase II PCORI Role: co-investigator Temporal Relation Discovery for Clinical Text (renewal) R01 LM 10090, NLM, NIH Role: MPI Informatics tools for pharmacogenomics discovery using practice-based data 1R01GM103859, NIGMS, NIH Role: Site PI Cancer Deep Phenotype Extraction from Electronic Medical Records 1U24CA184407-01, NCI, NIH Role: PI Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) U54LM008748 Role: Site PI and NLP team lead

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    1. NONE

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    1. Wired Informatics, commercial. Stock holder

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

    Legal Proceedings:

    1. NONE

  13. Ruben Dammers, MD, PhD,
    14. Scientific Advisory Boards:

    1. NONE

    Gifts:

    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

    Editorial Boards:

    1. Contemporary Neurosurgery (no compensation) Case Reports in Radiology (no compensation)

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

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  14. Scott T. Weiss, MD and
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  15. Rose Du, MD, PhD
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    1. NONE

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    1. NONE

    Editorial Boards:

    1. 1) Neurosurgery, Associate Editor, 2014-present, 2) Translational Stroke Research, Editorial Board, 2014-present, 3) Neuroscience Journal, Editorial Board, 2012-present, 3) Neurosurgery Journal, Editorial Board, 2013- present, 4) OA Neurosciences, Advisory Board, 2012-present, 5) Dataset Papers in Science, Editorial Board, 2012-present

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    1. Consulting physician for Grand Rounds

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    1. 1) NIH, K08NS067172, PI, 2009-2014

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    1. 1) Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2) Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Research Support, Foundations and Societies:

    1. 1) Dana Foundation

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  1. From the Department of Neurosurgery (A.C., Y.H.O., S.D., R. Du), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Department of Neurosurgery (A.C., R. Dammers), Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus MC Stroke Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Research Information Systems and Computing (V.M.C., V.G., S.M.), Partners Healthcare, Boston, MA; Center for Statistical Science (S.Y.), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; Department of Medicine (S.Y., S.T.W.), Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy (N.A.S.), and Channing Division of Network Medicine (S.T.W., R. Du), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Department of Computer Science (D.D.), Loyola University, Chicago, IL; Informatics Program (D.D., S.F., G.S.), Boston Children's Hospital; Department of Neurology (S.M.), Massachusetts General Hospital; and Biostatistics (T.C.), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
  1. Correspondence to Dr. Du: rdu{at}bwh.harvard.edu
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