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The Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research is associated with the CardioVascular Institute (CVI) at BIDMC, where cardiologists, cardiac surgeons and vascular surgeons provide comprehensive care for the heart and vascular system. The Smith Center is comprised of a team of...

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Zeynep Bilgili, MD & Gabriel Brat, MD MPH MSc August 13, 2025 When Sam Altman showcased the abilities of GPT-5 for healthcare, we thought: let’s see what the hype is about. We ran it through seven high-stakes acute care surgery scenarios that included a series of questions from patients to their...

Research interests I am interested in defining population characteristics amenable to new therapies with use of natural history, clinical phenotyping, and biomarkers relevant to essential tremor (ET), Parkinson's disease (PD) and related disorders. Clinical epidemiology of motor aging disorders...

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the ventral intermediate (VIM) nucleus of the thalamus is an approved treatment for essential tremor, and is typically performed using intraoperative neurophysiologic confirmation, requiring the patient to remain awake throughout the surgery. Recently, DBS placement...