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Charles Phillips, MD, MSHP
Attending Physician
Dr. Phillips' research interests involve learning health systems and the intersection of technology and clinical informatics with clinical research for pediatric oncology patients. His current focus is on developing novel automated methods to identify cancer patients with malnutrition and optimizing their nutritional support. He has a secondary interest in quality improvement research for supportive care in pediatric oncology.
Bio
Dr. Phillips' research interests involve learning health systems and the intersection of technology and clinical informatics with clinical research for pediatric oncology patients. As a clinical informatician with expertise in the electronic health record, learning health systems, and secondary use of clinical data, his work focuses on reaching results that make a meaningful difference in delivery of care.
Dr. Phillips previously worked on several projects that required various methods of data extraction from an electronic health record beyond simple chart review. More recently, he created a successful method to screen oncology patients for malnutrition using data contained in the electronic health record. Dr. Phillips has secondary interests in quality improvement research for supportive care in pediatric oncology and in how patients and families obtain medical information online.
Recent research highlights for Dr. Phillips include being selected for a young investigator presentation at the Children's Oncology Group annual meeting for his work on automating pediatric malnutrition screens for oncology patients.
Education and Training
BS, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Biology), 2007
MD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 2011
MSPH, University of Pennsylvania (Health Policy Research), 2018
Titles and Academic Titles
Attending Physician
Instructor of Pediatrics
Professional Memberships
American Academy of Pediatrics, 2011-
Children's Oncology Group, 2015-
Leonard David Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2016-
Publication Highlights
Phillips, CA., Pollock, BH. Big data for nutrition research in pediatric oncology: current state and framework for advancement. JNCI Monographs. 2019 Sep; 2019 September. DOI: 10.1093/jncimonographs/lgz019. PMID: 31532530
Phillips, CA., Bailer, J., Foster, E., Dogan, P., Li, Y., Smith, E., Reilly, A., and Freedman, J. Evaluation of an automated pediatric malnutrition screen using anthropometric measurements in the electronic health record: a quality improvement initiative. Journal of Supportive Care in Cancer. 2019 Jul; 2019 July. DOI: 10.1007/s00520-019-04980-1. PMID: 31286235
Phillips, CA., Razzaghi H., Aglio T., McNeil, MJ., Salvesen-Quinn, M., Sopfe, J., Wilkes, JJ., Forrest, CB., and Bailey, LC. Development and evaluation of a computable phenotype to identify pediatric leukemia and lymphoma patients treated with chemotherapy using electronic health record data. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 2019 Jun; 2019 June. DOI:10.1002/pbc.27876. PMID: 31207054
Phillips, CA., Hunt, A., Salvesen-Quinn, M., Guerra, J., Schapira, MM., Bailey, LC., and Merchant, RM. Health-related Google searches performed by parents of pediatric oncology patients. Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 2019 May; 2019 May. DOI:10.1002/pbc.27795. PMID: 31069926
Phillips CA, Bailer J, Foster E, Dogan P, Flaherty P, Baniewicz D, Smith E, Reilly A, and Freedman J. Implementation of an automated pediatric malnutrition screen using anthropometric measurements in the electronic health record. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2018 Oct; DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2018.07.014. PMID: 30297315