Radek Bukowski, MD, PhD

Computational Health & Medicine Initiatives Directorate

Email: rbukowski@tacc.utexas.edu

Radek Bukowski came to Texas Advanced Computing Center from Dell Medical School, where he was a tenured professor and Vice-Chair for Research at the Department of Women's Health. He is Affiliate Faculty Member of the Oden Institute, and Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University.

He received an MD from Poznan University of Medical Sciences in 1986 and a Ph.D. from Freie Universitaet Berlin in 1994. He completed training in obstetrics and gynecology in Europe and the US. In 1994, he completed a Research Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology at the Howard and Georgeanna Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine under the mentorship of Gary Hodgen, Georgeanna, and Howard Jones. After completing a Fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Dr. Bukowski joined its faculty, rising through the ranks over 17 years and becoming a tenured professor. Yale University then recruited him to become a Professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences, Director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and Chief of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Over more than 30 years, Dr. Bukowski's research contributed substantially to obstetrics, human development, computational medicine, and decision-making. His research was supported by multiple grants from NIH and NSF and culminated in a number of high-impact publications. He is the associate editor for computational medicine of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the leading journal in the field in the world.

Selected Publications

Cumulative metrics:

Number of times cited = 4173
Average number of citations per article = 54.9

Mean Relative Citation Ratio = 2.46
(How many times more cited per year than the median NIH-funded paper in the field)

Clinical impact:

Number of articles cited by clinical documents = 51
Likelihood that the publication will be cited in the future clinical articles = 62.5%

Publications:

Schulz KW, Gaither K, Zigler C, Urban T, Drake J, Bukowski R. Optimal mode of delivery in pregnancy: Individualized predictions using national vital statistics data. PLOS Digit Health. 2022 Dec 29;1(12):e0000166. doi: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000166.

Bukowski R, Schulz K, Gaither K, Stephens KK, Semeraro D, Drake J, Smith G, Cordola C, Zariphopoulou T, Hughes TJR, Zarins C, Kusnezov D, Howard RD, Oden T. Computational Medicine, Present and the Future: Obstetrics and Gynecology Perspective. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2020 Aug 22:S0002-9378(20)30885-1. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2020.08.057. Online ahead of print

Trifan A, Semeraro D, Drake J, Bukowski R, Oliveira JL. Social Media Mining for Postpartum Depression Prediction. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2020 Jun 16;270:1391-1392. doi: 10.3233/SHTI200457. PMID: 32570674

Starling JE, Murray JS, Carvalho CM, Bukowski R, Scott JG. BART with targeted smoothing: An analysis of patient-specific stillbirth risk. Annals of Applied Statistics 2020, 14(1) 28-50.

Bukowski R, Hansen NI, Pinar H, Willinger M, Reddy UM, Parker CB, Silver RM, Dudley DJ, Stoll BJ, Saade GR, Koch MA, Hogue C, Varner MW, Conway DL, Coustan D, Goldenberg RL; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network (SCRN). Altered fetal growth, placental abnormalities, and stillbirth. PLoS One. 2017 Aug 18;12(8):e0182874.

Bukowski R, Sadovsky Y, Goodarzi H, Zhang H, Biggio JR, Varner M, Parry S, Xiao F, Esplin SM, Andrews W, Saade GR, Ilekis JV, Reddy UM, Baldwin DA. Onset of human preterm and term birth is related to unique inflammatory transcriptome profiles at the maternal fetal interface. PeerJ. 2017 Sep 1;5:e3685

Bukowski R, Hansen NI, Willinger M, Reddy UM, Parker CB, Pinar H, Silver RM, Dudley DJ, Stoll BJ, Saade GR, Koch MA, Rowland Hogue CJ, Varner MW, Conway DL, Coustan D, Goldenberg RL; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network. Fetal growth and risk of stillbirth: a population-based case-control study. PLoS Med. 2014 Apr 22;11(4):e1001633.

Bukowski R, Chlebowski RT, Thune I, Furberg AS, Hankins GD, Malone FD, D'Alton ME. Birth weight, breast cancer and the potential mediating hormonal environment. PLoS One. 2012;7(7):e40199. Epub 2012 Jul 17.

Bukowski R, Davis KE, Wilson PW. Delivery of a small for gestational age infant and greater maternal risk of ischemic heart disease. PLoS One. 2012;7(3):e33047. Epub 2012 Mar 14.

Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network Writing Group collaborators: Bukowski R, Carpenter M, Conway D, Coustan D, Dudley DJ, Goldenberg RL, Hogue CJ, Koch MA, Parker CB, Pinar H, Reddy UM, Saade GR, Silver RM, Stoll BJ, Varner MW, Willinger M (alphabetically). Association between stillbirth and risk factors known at pregnancy confirmation. JAMA. 2011 Dec 14;306(22):2469-79.

Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network Writing Group collaborators: Bukowski R, Carpenter M, Conway D, Coustan D, Dudley DJ, Goldenberg RL, Hogue CJ, Koch MA, Parker CB, Pinar H, Reddy UM, Saade GR, Silver RM, Stoll BJ, Varner MW, Willinger M (alphabetically). Causes of death among stillbirths. JAMA. 2011;306(22):2459-2468

Bukowski R, Malone F, Porter F, Nyberg D, Comstock C, Hankins GDV, Eddleman K, Gross S, Dugoff L, Craigo S, Timor-Tritsch I, Carr S, Wolfe H, D’Alton M. Preconceptional folate supplementation and the risk of spontaneous preterm birth: Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort. PLoS Med. 2009 May 5;6(5):e1000061. Epub 2009 May 12.

Bukowski R, Smith GCS, Malone FD, Ball RH, Nyberg DA, Comstock CH, Hankins GDV, Berkowitz RL, Gross SJ, Dugoff L, Craigo SD, Timor-Tritsch IE, Carr SR, Wolfe HM, D’Alton ME. Fetal growth in early pregnancy and risk of delivering low birth weight infant: prospective cohort study. BMJ. 2007 Apr 21;334(7598):836.

Bukowski R, Smith GCS, Malone FD, Ball RH, Nyberg DA, Comstock CH, Hankins GDV, Berkowitz RL, Gross SJ, Dugoff L, Craigo SD, Timor-Tritsch IE, Carr SR, Wolfe HM, D’Alton ME. Human sexual size dimorphism in early pregnancy. Am J Epidemiol. 2007 May 15;165(10):1216-8.

Malone FD, Canick JA, Ball RH, Nyberg DA, Comstock CH, Bukowski R, Berkowitz RL, Gross SJ, Dugoff L, Craigo SD, Timor-Tritsch IE, Carr SR, Wolfe HM, Dukes K, Bianchi DW, Rudnicka AL, Hackshaw AK, Lambert-Messerlian G, Wald NJ, D’Alton ME, for the FASTER Research Consortium. First and Second Trimester Evaluation of Risk for Fetal Aneuploidy (FASTER): Principal Results of the NICHD Multicenter Down Syndrome Screening Study. N Engl J Med. 2005 Nov 10;353(19):2001-11.

Areas of Research

  • Scientific Computational Medicine, Medical Decision Making

Memberships

  • 1998-present American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • 2017-present Royal Society of Medicine, London
  • 2016-present Yale Alumni Association