User:Bryan Piccirillo

Bryan Piccirillo
Contact : bpicciri@bidmc.harvard.edu

Current Position

 * '''Internal Medicine resident PGY2, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
 * Associate Editor-In-Chief for WikiDoc.org

Education

 * B.S. in Biology and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 2006.
 * M.D. University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, 2010.

Previous Research work
Current: Co-principal investigator in designing an algorithm to assess cardiac catheterization procedures at BIDMC based on current appropriateness guidelines, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.

2009-2010: Co-principal investigator in a project which examined retrospectively predictors for rehospitalization rates in patient with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction, St Francis Medical Center, Hartford, CT. 2007-2008: Participated in and published in a retrospective review in exploring predictors of clinically significant postprcoedural hypotension after carotid endarterectomy and carotid angioplasty with stenting. Co-authored the study published in Journal of Vascular Surgery, September 2009: 526-533; University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT.

2004-2005: Co-principal investigator in a bioinformatics project to design a functional online database and search engine for studying novel amino acid motifs (short recognizable sequences) on proteins. Co-authored the study: Minimotif Miner: A tool for investigating protein function. Nature Methids. March 2006: 175-77. University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT.