Anna Ostropolets

Anna Ostropolets is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University and Director and Head of Innovation Lab at Odysseus Data Services. She holds a medical degree from Kharkiv National Medical University and a PhD from Columbia University (2023). Her research focuses on real-world evidence generation, standardized vocabularies in observational research, and the comparative effectiveness and safety of antidiabetic therapies, including GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors. She leads the OHDSI Vocabulary Improvement Initiative and developed Phoebe, an approach for comprehensive code selection, and KEEPER, an alternative to chart review. Her recent work includes large-scale multinational studies on sex differences in treatment effects and the application of large language models for case adjudication. She received the AMIA 2023 Edward H. Shortliffe Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention.