"Leveraging electronic health records and biobanks to inform precision care in diabetes complications."
Dr. Ayush Giri is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Quantitative Sciences at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University, and is a scholar in the Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) program. His research interests focus on understanding how non-modifiable risk factors such as genetic predisposition, race, and genetic ancestry and modifiable risk factors such as obesity influence human health and disease etiology, especially as it relates to women's health. Topics of active investigation in women's health include gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, and pelvic organ prolapse.
Dr. Giri uses data from traditional cohort studies and electronic health records and utilizes methods including epidemiologic study design, genome-wide association study, admixture mapping, statistical modeling, gene-environment interactions, genetic risk scores, transcriptome-wide association study, and phenome-wide association study. He is interested in developing and evaluating approaches that better incorporate sex as a biologic variable in epidemiologic and genetic investigations of traits and phenotypes that are differentially distributed in men and women.
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