About Dr. Daniel Chen
Daniel Chen, MD, MSc, Medicine/GIM, is a clinician-educator whose scholarship focuses on the evaluation and measurement of medical student empathy. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from New York University, completed a Master’s degree at Boston University, and holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Chen also completed his internship at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital. He serves as an assistant dean for student affairs and course director for the Research Elective in Biomedical Sciences. He regularly mentors medical residents and students and teaches medical students rotating through the internal medicine clerkship. Dr. Chen has made instrumental contributions to medical education by establishing and advancing the study of empathy among medical students. He was one of the first researchers to use the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy, and his work demonstrating a decrease in medical student empathy has led to changes in the medical curriculum.
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Education and background
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Hospital affiliations
- Boston Medical Center
Board certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine
Education and training
- Medical School - New York University, Doctor of Medicine
- Boston University (Master's)
- University of Pennsylvania (Bachelor's)
- Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (Internship)
Awards and publications
- Li A, La J, May SB, Guffey D, da Costa WL, Amos CI, Bandyo R, Milner EM, Kurian KM, Chen DCR, Do NV, Granada C, Riaz N, Brophy MT, Chitalia V, Gaziano JM, Garcia DA, Carrier M, Flowers CR, Zakai NA, Fillmore NR. Derivation and Validation of a Clinical Risk Assessment Model for Cancer-Associated Thrombosis in Two Unique US Health Care Systems. J Clin Oncol. 2023 Jan 10; JCO2201542. PMID: 36626707.
- Livingston NA, Davenport M, Head M, Henke R, LeBeau LS, Gibson TB, Banducci AN, Sarpong A, Jayanthi S, Roth C, Camacho-Cook J, Meng F, Hyde J, Mulvaney-Day N, White M, Chen DC, Stein MD, Weisberg R. The impact of COVID-19 and rapid policy exemptions expanding on access to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD): A nationwide Veterans Health Administration cohort study. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2022 Dec 01; 241:109678. PMID: 36368167.
- Elbers DC, Fillmore NR, Sung FC, Ganas SS, Prokhorenkov A, Meyer C, Hall RB, Ajjarapu SJ, Chen DC, Meng F, Grossman RL, Brophy MT, Do NV. The Veterans Affairs Precision Oncology Data Repository, a Clinical, Genomic, and Imaging Research Database. Patterns (N Y). 2020 Sep 11; 1(6):100083. PMID: 33205130.
- Fillmore N, Ramos-Cejudo J, Cheng D, Tuck DP, Sheikh AR, Chen D, Elbers D, Sung FC, Johnson B, Shannon C, Pierce-Murray K, Gaynor K, Dedomenico C, Schiller S, Ajjarapu S, Hall R, Ayandeh S, Meng F, Brophy MT, Do N. A predictive model for survival in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) based on electronic health record (EHR) and tumor sequencing data at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2019; 37(15):109.
- Casas RS, Xuan Z, Jackson AH, Stanfield LE, Harvey NC, Chen DC. Associations of medical student empathy with clinical competence. Patient Educ Couns. 2017 Apr; 100(4):742-747. PMID: 27856065.
Languages spoken
- English
Provider's gender
Male
NPI number
1578598629
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Dr. Daniel Chen is certified by American Board of Internal Medicine.
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Dr. Daniel Chen speaks English.