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The Bennett Lab at CU Anschutz
focuses on clinical decision-making in high-risk environments such as intensive care units and on the development and implementation of informatics and data science methods and tools to improve outcomes.
Our Mission
Improving clinical outcomes through informatics and data science.
Our Research
1. Design and develop novel computational models and tools
2. Build tools into real-time clinical decision support systems
3. Partner with users and health systems to deploy tools and rigorously evaluate their impact
Our Projects
We develop and evaluate models and tools consistent with NIH-supported FAIR principles. Whenever possible, we use open-source (reusabillity) and cross-platform (interoperability) analytic software. We share that software on GitHub (accessibility) with digital object identifiers (findability).
Meet the Bennett Lab
Tell Bennett, MD, MS
Vice Chair of Clinical Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Tell Bennett, MD, MS, is a pediatric ICU physician and informaticist with research concentrations in critical care decision-making, high-dimensional prediction modeling, electronic health record data, and clinical decision support (CDS) tool implementation. Bennett is board-certified in pediatrics, pediatric critical care medicine, and clinical informatics and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in biomedical data science. He is the Vice Chair of Clinical Informatics in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Colorado Anschutz and served a 5-year term as the Informatics Director of the institution’s CTSA from 2019-2024. Bennett practices as an attending physician in the Pediatric ICU at Children’s Hospital Colorado.
Peter DeWitt, PhD
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Peter DeWitt's education and background in (bio)statistics, mathematics, and computer science has provided the foundation for building reproducible and collaborative workflows, implementing cutting-edge methodologies, and providing statistically sound data analyses and interpretation of results. DeWitt has deep expertise with a variety of statistical and machine learning modeling approaches and their implementation, EHR data, enterprise-level relational databases, and the R and Python programming ecosystems.
Seth Russell, MS
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Seth Russell, MS, is a computer scientist and biomedical informaticist with more than 15 years of healthcare industry experience as well as healthcare research. Russell's research focus has been the application of software engineering and biomedical informatics principles to clinical research and health system operational issues. He has also contributed to the development of novel informatics and data science methods, tools, and approaches. Russell has experience with enterprise-level commercial Electronic Health Record (EHR) software such as Cerner and Epic as well as custom EHR software such as Intermountain Healthcare’s HELP system. He also has experience developing and architecting software applications utilizing standards such as SMART on FHIR and HL7v2.
Meg Rebull, MA
Research Program Manager, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Meg Rebull, MA, is a research program manager in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine. She has several years of experience managing teams and networks conducting informatics research, including the Phoenix criteria development process. Rebull assists with all day-to-day activities, including coordinating communications and managing budgets, IRB materials, progress reports, and data use agreements.
Our team also includes a variety of mentees, both clinical and non-clinical, at different stages of training. Our mentoring mission is to nurture a diverse pipeline of talented and well-trained clinicians and non-clinicians engaged in Patient-Oriented Research (POR) using informatics methods.