Priya Ramaswamy, MD
Assistant Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

Dr. Priya Ramaswamy currently serves as the Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer at the San Francisco VA. Priya obtained her bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, and completed her Anesthesiology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She completed her clinical informatics fellowship at UCSF.…

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Priya is passionate about developing and deploying technologies to improve healthcare. Her academic interests are clinical and perioperative informatics, health innovation and technology, and machine learning.

Awards

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• BIDMC Award for Extraordinary Efforts during COVID-19 Pandemic, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 2020
• 1st Place Resident Research Award- Anesthesia Research Presentation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 2019
• The Annual Nancy Oriol Award for Excellence in Obstetric Anesthesiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 2019
• 1st Place Engineering Challenge-Developed a Blockchain Platform to Share Difficult Intubation Scores, Society for Technology in Anesthesia, 2018

Education & Training

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• Anesthesiology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 09/2020
• MD Doctor of Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine 05/2016
• M.Eng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology 06/2011
• S.B. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology 06/2010

Interests

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• Big Data
• Operational Leadership
• Health Technology
• Innovation
• Digital Health
• Perioperative Informatics
• Machine Learning
• Clinical Informatics

Websites

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• Posts on X PriyaRamaswamy (X.com)

Publications (10)

Top publication keywords:
Medical Informatics ApplicationsElectrophysiologic Techniques, CardiacAnesthesiologyNeurologyEducation, Medical, GraduateMedical InformaticsElectronic Health RecordsTidal VolumeWorld Health OrganizationInpatientsDatabases, FactualPulmonary VentilationAnesthesiaBody Surface Potential MappingRespiratory Rate

• Blockchain-Based Healthcare Credentialing: A Solution to High Costs and Administrative Burdens.
  Cureus 2024 Chinedu-Eneh E, Ramaswamy P, Farmer PE
• Paging the Clinical Informatics Community: Respond STAT to Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Health Organization.
  Applied clinical informatics 2022 Arvisais-Anhalt S, Ravi A, Weia B, Aarts J, Ahmad HB, Araj E, Bauml JA, Benham-Hutchins M, Boyd AD, Brecht-Doscher A, Butler-Henderson K, Butte AJ, Cardilo AB, Chilukuri N, Cho MK, Cohen JK, Craven CK…
• An Accessible Clinical Decision Support System to Curtail Anesthetic Greenhouse Gases in a Large Health Network: Implementation Study.
  JMIR perioperative medicine 2022 Ramaswamy P, Shah A, Kothari R, Schloemerkemper N, Methangkool E, Aleck A, Shapiro A, Dayal R, Young C, Spinner J, Deibler C, Wang K, Robinowitz D, Gandhi S
• Keeping an Open Mind About Open Notes: Sharing Anesthesia Records With Patients.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2022 Ramaswamy P, Xie J, Marsiglio AM, Burgart AM, Schmiesing CA, Cohen NH, Robinowitz DL, Wang E
• Developing a COVID-19 WHO Clinical Progression Scale inpatient database from electronic health record data.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022 Ramaswamy P, Gong JJ, Saleh SN, McDonald SA, Blumberg S, Medford RJ, Liu X

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• The emerging role of clinical informatics fellows in service learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021 Subash M, Sakumoto M, Bass J, Hong P, Muniyappa A, Pierce L, Purmal C, Ramaswamy P, Sono R, Uptegraft C, Feinstein D, Khanna R
• Exploring ASA Score Predictability Using Machine Learning
  Society of Technology in Anesthesia Annual Meeting 2020 Ramaswamy P, Grabitz S, Santer P, Eickermann M
• An optimized method for the estimation of the respiratory rate from electrocardiographic signals: implications for estimating minute ventilation.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2014 Weiss EH, Sayadi O, Ramaswamy P, Merchant FM, Sajja N, Foley L, Laferriere S, Armoundas AA
• Analyzing Autonomic Activity in Neonatal Seizures
  Analyzing Autonomic Activity in Neonatal Seizures 2011 Ramaswamy P
• Large-scale analysis of neurite growth dynamics on micropatterned substrates.
  Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro 2010 Wissner-Gross ZD, Scott MA, Ku D, Ramaswamy P, Fatih Yanik M