Dr. Seth Eisen is a Rheumatologist who's worked at both the St. Louis VA and Washington University. He has served as PI on several studies throughout the years.
Dr. Eisen serves as the national director of the VA’s Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) service from 2007-2012. In that role, he developed major initiatives in medical informatics, including the creation of VINCI (VA Informatics & Computing Infrastructure), a powerful, national, virtual computing platform for data analyses and storage using state-of-the-art statistical programs; implemented a national program of natural language processing (NLP) software and tools to facilitate the transformation of the VA’s electronic medical record text data into information useful to investigators and program office leadership; initiated HSR&D’s CREATE (Collaborative Research to Enhance Transformation and Excellence) and COIN (Centers of Innovation) programs that encouraged the development of national, cross-medical center research teams in which program and policy leadership participated; and substantially enhanced HSR&D’s 5-year career development award program.
Dr. Eisen serves as the national director of the VA’s Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) service from 2007-2012. In that role, he developed major initiatives in medical informatics, including the creation of VINCI (VA Informatics & Computing Infrastructure), a powerful, national, virtual computing platform for data analyses and storage using state-of-the-art statistical programs; implemented a national program of natural language processing (NLP) software and tools to facilitate the transformation of the VA’s electronic medical record text data into information useful to investigators and program office leadership; initiated HSR&D’s CREATE (Collaborative Research to Enhance Transformation and Excellence) and COIN (Centers of Innovation) programs that encouraged the development of national, cross-medical center research teams in which program and policy leadership participated; and substantially enhanced HSR&D’s 5-year career development award program.