Gabriela Vazquez Benitez

Research investigator
statistician
HealthPartners Research Foundation
United States of America

Scientist Mathematics
Biography

Gabriela Vazquez Benitez is an Research investigator in statistics at HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research, Minneapolis, MN, United States. she had completed her PhD, epidemiology and MSc, biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; MSc, demography, El Colegio de Mexico.

Research Intrest

Multilevel data analysis, meta-analysis, generalized linear models, epidemiologic study designs

List of Publications
Garcia CM, Aguilera-Guzman RM, Lindgren S, Gutierrez R, Raniolo B, et al., (2013) Intergenerational photovoice projects: optimizing this mechanism for influencing health promotion policies and strengthening relationships.Health Promot Pract. 14:695-705.
Kharbanda EO, Vazquez-Benitez G, Lipkind H, Naleway A, Lee G, et al., (2013)Inactivated influenza vaccine during pregnancy and risks for adverse obstetric events. Obstet Gynecol. 122:659-667.
Nordin JD, Parker ED, Vazquez-Benitez G, Kharbanda EO, Naleway A, et al., (2013)Safety of the yellow Fever vaccine: a retrospective study.J Travel Med. 20:368-73.
Jaranilla J, DeFor T, Vazquez Benitez G, Kottke TE (2014) Lipid abnormalities in foreign-born and US-born patients in a medical group.J Clin Lipidol. 8:77-85.
Nordin JD, Kharbanda EO, Vazquez Benitez G, Lipkind H, Vellozzi C, et al., (2014)Maternal influenza vaccine and risks for preterm or small for gestational age birth.J Pediatr. 164:1051-1057.
Vazquez-Benitez G, Desai JR, Xu S, Goodrich GK, Schroeder EB, et al., (2015) Preventable major cardiovascular events associated with uncontrolled glucose, blood pressure, and lipids and active smoking in adults with diabetes with and without cardiovascular disease: a contemporary analysis.Diabetes Care. 38:905-912.
Desai JR, Vazquez-Benitez G, Xu Z, Schroeder EB, Karter AJ, et al., (2015) Who Must We Target Now to Minimize Future Cardiovascular Events and Total Mortality?: Lessons From the Surveillance, Prevention and Management of Diabetes Mellitus (SUPREME-DM) Cohort Study.Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 8:508-516.
Wolfson J, Bandyopadhyay S, Elidrisi M, Vazquez-Benitez G, Vock DM, et al., (2015)A Naive Bayes machine learning approach to risk prediction using censored, time-to-event data.Stat Med. 34:2941-2957.
Kingsley SL, Eliot MN, Whitsel EA, Wang Y, Coull BA, et al., (2015) Residential proximity to major roadways and incident hypertension in post-menopausal women. Environ Res. 142:522-528.
Sukumaran L, McCarthy NL, Kharbanda EO, Weintraub ES, Vazquez-Benitez G, et al., (2015) Safety of Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid, and Acellular Pertussis and Influenza Vaccinations in Pregnancy.Obstet Gynecol. 126:1069-1074.
Kharbanda EO, Vazquez-Benitez G, Lipkind HS, Klein NP, Cheetham TC, et al., (2016) Maternal Tdap vaccination: Coverage and acute safety outcomes in the vaccine safety datalink, 2007-2013. Vaccine. 34:968-973.
Alpern JD, Bahr NC, Vazquez-Benitez G, Boulware DR, Sellman JS, et al., (2016) Diagnostic Delay and Antibiotic Overuse in Acute Pulmonary Blastomycosis. Open Forum Infect Dis. 3:ofw078.
Kharbanda AB, Madhok M, Krause E, Vazquez-Benitez G, Kharbanda EO, et al., (2016)Implementation of Electronic Clinical Decision Support for Pediatric Appendicitis. Pediatrics. 137: e20151745.
Vock DM, Wolfson J, Bandyopadhyay S, Adomavicius G, Johnson PE, et al., (2016) Adapting machine learning techniques to censored time-to-event health record data: A general-purpose approach using inverse probability of censoring weighting.J Biomed Inform. 61:119-131.
Vazquez-Benitez G, Kharbanda EO, Naleway AL, Lipkind H, Sukumaran L, et al., (2016) Risk of Preterm or Small-for-Gestational-Age Birth After Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy: Caveats When Conducting Retrospective Observational Studies.Am J Epidemiol. 184:176-186.
DeSilva M, Vazquez-Benitez G, Nordin JD, Lipkind HS, Romitti PA, et al., (2016) Tdap Vaccination During Pregnancy and Microcephaly and Other Structural Birth Defects in Offspring.JAMA. 316:1823-1825.
Rossom RC, Solberg LI, Vazquez-Benitez G, Whitebird RR, Crain AL, et al., (2016)Predictors of Poor Response to Depression Treatment in Primary Care.Psychiatr Serv. 67:1362-1367.
Rossom RC, Solberg LI, Vazquez-Benitez G, Crain AL, Beck A, et al., (2016)The effects of patient-centered depression care on patient satisfaction and depression remission.Fam Pract. 33(6):649-655.
Desai J, Taylor G, Vazquez-Benitez G, Vine S, Anderson J, et al., (2017)Financial incentives for diabetes prevention in a Medicaid population: Study design and baseline characteristics.Contemp Clin Trials.53:1-10.
Pawloski PA, Thomas AJ, Kane S, Vazquez-Benitez G, Shapiro GR, et al., (2017) Predicting neutropenia risk in patients with cancer using electronic data.J Am Med Inform Assoc. 24:e129-e135.
Kharbanda EO, Vazquez-Benitez G, Romitti PA, Naleway AL, Cheetham TC, et al., (2017)Identifying birth defects in automated data sources in the Vaccine Safety Datalink.Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 26:412-420.
Wolfson J, Vock DM, Bandyopadhyay S, Kottke T, Vazquez-Benitez G, et al., (2017) Use and Customization of Risk Scores for Predicting Cardiovascular Events Using Electronic Health Record Data.J Am Heart Assoc. 6: e003670.
DeSilva M, Vazquez-Benitez G, Nordin JD, Lipkind HS, Klein NP, et al., (2017)Maternal Tdap vaccination and risk of infant morbidity.Vaccine. 35:3655-3660.
Kharbanda EO, Vazquez-Benitez G, Romitti PA, Naleway AL, Cheetham TC, et al., (2017) First Trimester Influenza Vaccination and Risks for Major Structural Birth Defects in Offspring.J Pediatr. 187:234-239.