Dr. Emily R. Pfaff received her Masters in Information Science and her PhD in Clinical and Health Informatics, both from the University of North Carolina (UNC). Since 2011, Dr. Pfaff has served in multiple roles in the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS), UNC's CTSA. Dr. Pfaff is currently NC TraCS Co-Director for Informatics and Data Science. She is also Associate Director of UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine's Program on Clinical and Health Informatics. Dr. Pfaff has an academic appointment as Research Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism at UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Dr. Pfaff is nationally known for her work and leadership in the National Covid Cohort Collaborative (N3C), now known as the N3C COVID Enclave. The N3C COVID Enclave is the largest data enclave of de-identified, individual-level clinical data available for COVID-19 research. Dr. Pfaff and others are piloting additional data enclaves as part of the expansion of N3C, the National Clinical Cohort Collaborative.
Recent Publications
- Islam, JY, Hurwitz, E, Li, D, Camacho-Rivera, M, Sun, J, Safo, S, Ross, JM, Wilkins, K, Hassan, S, Hill, EL et al.. Associations of County-Level Social Determinants of Health with COVID-19 Related Hospitalization Among People with HIV: A Retrospective Analysis of the U.S. National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). AIDS Behav 2024; : . PubMed PMID:39292319 .
- Wen, A, Wang, L, He, H, Fu, S, Liu, S, Hanauer, DA, Harris, DR, Kavuluru, R, Zhang, R, Natarajan, K et al.. A Case Demonstration of the Open Health Natural Language Processing Toolkit From the National COVID-19 Cohort Collaborative and the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery Programs for a Natural Language Processing System for COVID-19 or Postacute Sequelae of SARS CoV-2 Infection: Algorithm Development and Validation. JMIR Med Inform 2024; 12 : e49997. PubMed PMID:39250782 .
- Olson, KR, Takata, T, Clear, KJ, Gao, Y, Ma, Z, Pfaff, E, Mouli, K, Kent, TA, Jones, P Jr, Fukuto, J et al.. The SOD1 Inhibitor, LCS-1, Oxidizes H2S to Reactive Sulfur Species, Directly and Indirectly, through Conversion of SOD1 to an Oxidase. Antioxidants (Basel) 2024; 13 (8): . PubMed PMID:39199236 PubMed Central PMC11351665.
- Zhang, X, Anzalone, AJ, Dai, D, Cochran, G, Dai, R, Rupp, ME, National COVID Cohort (N3C) Collaborative . Chronic Lung Disease as a Risk Factor for Long COVID in Patients Diagnosed With Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Open Forum Infect Dis 2024; 11 (8): ofae424. PubMed PMID:39183811 PubMed Central PMC11342242.
- Anzalone, AJ, Jackson, LE, Singh, N, Danila, MI, Reisher, E, Patel, RC, Singh, JA, National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Consortium. Long-Term Mortality Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Rural Versus Urban Dwellers with Autoimmune or Inflammatory Rheumatic Disease (AIRD): A Retrospective Cohort Analysis from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 2024; : . PubMed PMID:39158165 .
- Butzin-Dozier, Z, Ji, Y, Li, H, Coyle, J, Shi, J, Phillips, RV, Mertens, AN, Pirracchio, R, van der Laan, MJ, Patel, RC et al.. Predicting Long COVID in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative Using Super Learner: Cohort Study. JMIR Public Health Surveill 2024; 10 : e53322. PubMed PMID:39146534 PubMed Central PMC11364083.
- Erlandson, KM, Geng, LN, Selvaggi, CA, Thaweethai, T, Chen, P, Erdmann, NB, Goldman, JD, Henrich, TJ, Hornig, M, Karlson, EW et al.. Differentiation of Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Postacute Sequelae by Standard Clinical Laboratory Measurements in the RECOVER Cohort. Ann Intern Med 2024; 177 (9): 1209-1221. PubMed PMID:39133923 PubMed Central PMC11408082.
- Sharma, S, Liu, J, Abramowitz, AC, Geary, CR, Johnston, KC, Manning, C, Van Horn, JD, Zhou, A, Anzalone, AJ, Loomba, J et al.. Leveraging multi-site electronic health data for characterization of subtypes: a pilot study of dementia in the N3C Clinical Tenant. JAMIA Open 2024; 7 (3): ooae076. PubMed PMID:39132679 PubMed Central PMC11316614.
- Mastoloni, EM, French, E, Coelho, DH, N3C consortium. Impact of Nutritional Status on COVID-19-Induced Olfactory Dysfunction. Laryngoscope 2024; : . PubMed PMID:39077963 .
- Liu, APY, Li, BK, Vasiljevic, A, Dewan, MC, Tamrazi, B, Ertl-Wagner, B, Hansford, JR, Pfaff, E, Mynarek, M, Ng, HK et al.. SNO-EANO-EURACAN consensus on management of pineal parenchymal tumors. Neuro Oncol 2024; : . PubMed PMID:39073785 .
