Publications & Inventions

Peer-reviewed Journals

1. Nidetz A, Fishman E, Jacobs M, Daniels C, Tamang S. Palliative care management services in a Medicare Social HMO. Journal of Pain and Symptom Managent. 2005 Jan;29(1):109-11. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2004.11.002. PMID: 15652445. *Prepared the dataset, performed all data analysis and helped to interpret and convey results.
2. Tamang S, Kopec D, Shagas G, Levy K. Improving end of life care: an information systems approach to reducing medical errors. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2005;114:93-104. PMID: 15923765. *Designed study with mentors and executed the study.  Acquired dataset and led the writing of the manuscript.
3. Tamang S, Kopec D, Shagas G, and Levy K. Improving palliative care: An information systems approach. The Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare. 2005;3(3).  *Designed study with coauthors and executed the study.  Acquired dataset and worked with other study coauthors develop the study design and led the writing of the manuscript.
4. Kopec D, Tamang S, Levy K, Eckhardt R, and Shagas G. State of the art in the reduction of medical errors. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 2006;121:126-37.  * Contributed a section on failures in medical devices.
5. Fishman E, Tamang S, and Shea D.  Medicare out-of-pocket costs: can private savings incentives solve the problem?  Commonwealth Fund Report. 2018. *Supported acquisition of MEPS survey data, contributed to the data analysis and provided critical input on the interpretation of results and the manuscript.
6. Chen Z, Tamang S, Lee A, Li X, Lin W, Artiles J, Snover M, Passantino M, and Ji H. CUNY-Blender Text Analysis Conference-Knowledge Base Population (TAC-KBP) Entity Linking and Slot Filling System Description.  Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference, National Institute of Standards in Technology (NIST). 2010. *Developed an open-source question answering system and contributed critical input to the overall system design and evaluation.
7. Chen Z, Tamang S, Lee A, and Ji H. A Toolkit for Knowledge Base Population. Proceedings of the 34th International Association for Computing Machinery, SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Beijing, China. 2011. *Developed an open-source question answering system and contributed critical input to the overall system design and evaluation.
8. Snover M, Li X, Lin W, Chen Z, Tamang S, Ge M, Lee A, Li Q, Li H, Anzaroot S, and Ji. Cross-lingual Slot Filling from Comparable Corpora. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 4th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora: Comparable Corpora and the Web, Portland, Oregon, 2011.  *Contributed critical input to the system design and manuscript.
9. Tamang S, Ji H. Adding Smarter Systems Instead of Human Annotators: Re-ranking for Slot-Filling System Combination. Proceedings of the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Workshop on Search and Mining Entity-Relationship Data. 2011.  *Developed the re-ranking system for re-labeling data and led the writing of the manuscript.
10. Tamang S, Parsons S; Using semi-parametric clustering applied to EHR time series data. Proceedings of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) Conference, Workshop on Data Mining for Medicine and Healthcare. 2011.  *Developed and tested the clustering algorithm.  Led the interpretation of results and writing of the manuscript.
11. Artiles J, Li Q, Cassidy T, Tamang S, Ji H. CUNY Blender Text Analysis Conference-Knowledge Base Population (TAC-KBP) Temporal Slot Filling System Description. Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference, National Institute of Standards in Technology (NIST). 2011.  *Developed a natural language processing software that was included in the system and contributed critical input to the manuscript.
12. Tamang S, and Ji H. Relabeling Distantly Supervised Training Data for Temporal Knowledge Base Population. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction and Web-scale Knowledge Extraction (AKBC-WEKEX). 2012.  *Developed and applied the relabeling method.  Designed the experiment and interpreted results with support from coauthors.  Led the writing and revision of the manuscript.
13. Tamang S, Chen Z, and Ji H. CUNY Blender Text Analysis Conference-Knowledge Base Population (TAC-KBP) Entity Linking System and Slot Filling Validation System. Proceedings of the Text Analysis Conference, National Institute of Standards in Technology (NIST). 2012.  *Developed the slot-filling validation system and led the challenge submission for the CUNY Blender team.  Led the writing and revision of the manuscript.
14. Tamang S and Parsons S. Unsupervised Modeling of Patient Disease Dynamics. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium, Workshop on Data Driven Wellness. 2013. *Developed the machine learning algorithms.  Designed the experiments and interpreted the results.  Led the writing and revision of the manuscript.
15. Tamang S and Parsons S. Semiparametric Clustering Methods for Modeling Chronic Disease Dynamics. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Role of Machine Learning in Transforming Healthcare. 2013.  *Developed the machine learning algorithms.  Designed the experiments and interpreted the results.  Led the writing and revision of the manuscript.
16. Ji H, Cassidy T, Li Q. and Tamang S. 2014. Tackling Representation, Annotation and Classification Challenges for Temporal Knowledge Base Population. Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems. 2014;41:611–646.  *Contributed to the outline and writing of the manuscript
17. Hernandez-Boussard T, Tamang S, Brooks D, Blayney D, Shah N. Measurement of urinary incontinence after prostate surgery from data-mining electronic health records (EHR). Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2014; 32(15 suppl):6612-6612. *Developed and implemented the NLP method for urinary incontinence detection after prostate surgery.  
18. Tamang S, Patel MI, Blayney DW, Kuznetsov J, Finlayson S, Vetteth Y, Nigam NH.  Detecting unplanned care from clinician notes in electronic health records.  Journal of Oncology Practice. 2015; 11(3): e313-e319.  *Developed and implemented the NLP algorithm for detection outside ED visits. Designed the experiments and interpreted the results.  Led the writing and revision of the manuscript.  
19. Sankarasan K, Tamang S, Bhatt, A. The Opioid Atlas: Mapping Access to Pain Medication. NIPS, Workshop on Machine Learning in Healthcare. 2016. *Helped to develop the software tool, with respect to statistical summaries, data visualization, geographic information and time series techniques.  Developed the website and led the writing and revision of the manuscript.
20. Hernandez-Boussard T, Tamang S, Blayney D, Brooks J, Shah N. New Paradigms for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Electronic Medical Records: An Example of Detecting Urinary Incontinence Following Prostatectomy. Generating Evidence and Methods to improve patient outcomes (eGEMs). 2016;4(3):1231. doi:10.13063/2327-9214.1231. *Developed and implemented the natural language processing methods and contributed to the writing of the manuscript.
21. Tamang S, Milstein A, Sorensen HT, Pedersen L, Mackey L, Kono JR, Janson L, Nigam NH. Predicting patient ‘cost blooms’ in Denmark: a longitudinal population-based study. BMJ Open. 2017;7:e011580. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011580. *Helped to acquire data and developed the prediction model.  Designed the experiments and interpreted the results.  Led the writing and revision of the manuscript.  
22. Tamang S, Hernandez-Boussard T, Ross E, Gaskin G, Patel MI, Nigam NH. Enhanced Quality Measurement Event Detection: An Application to Physician Reporting.  Generating Evidence and Methods to improve patient outcomes (eGEMs). 2017; 5(1)-5.  *Developed the study design, executed the study.  Led the writing and revision of the manuscript.
23. Yim W, Kamdar M, Ludwig D, Harpaz R, Tamang S. 2018. Prototyping a Scope-constraint Dictionary-based Method for Clinical Trials Eligibility Criteria Determination. National NLP Clinical Challenges (N2C2) Workshop. *Supported data acquisition and led the Stanford School of Medicine submission to a national NLP challenge.  Provided critical input to the research team and to the manuscript.
24. Gianfrancesco MA, Tamang S, Yazdany J, Schmajuk G. Potential Biases in Machine Learning Algorithms Using Electronic Health Record Data. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2018; 178(11):1544-1547.  *Helped to identify the machine learning methods examples associated with algorithmic bias.  Contributed to writing and revision of the manuscript.
25. Gradus JL, Horváth-Puhó E, Lash TL, Ehrenstein V, Tamang S, Adler NE, Milstein A and Glymour, MM, Henderson VW, Sørensen HT. Stress Disorders and Dementia in the Danish Population. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2018; 188(3):493–499 *Provided input on the study design and revisions.
26. Ling AY, Alsentzer E, Chen J, Banda JM, Tamang S, Minty E. Scalable Electronic Phenotyping For Studying Patient Comorbidities. Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium. 2018. *Provided input on the study design and revisions.
27. Harpaz R, Callahan A, Tamang S, Low Y, Odgers D, Finlayson S, Jung K, LePendu P, Shah, NH. Text mining for adverse drug events: the promise, challenges, and state of the art. Drug Safety.   *Contributed the section on the use of social media data for pharmacovigilance.
28. Begoli E, Brown K, Srinivasan S, Tamang S. SynthNotes: A Generator Framework for High-volume, High-fidelity Synthetic Mental Health Notes. Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Data (Big Data), Seattle, Washington, USA. 2018.  *Contributed to the study evaluation, and the writing and revision of the manuscript.
29. Kamdar M, Hamamsy T, Shelton S, Vala A, Eftimov T, Zou J, Tamang S. A Knowledge Graph Based Approach for Exploring the US Opioid Epidemic. Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Representation, Workshop on AI for Social Good, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. 2019.  *Acquired the dataset, managed the project team, and provided critical input on the initial study idea, design of the experiment, and interpretation of results.
30. Agarwal K, Eftimov T, Choudhury S, Addanki R, Tamang S and Rallo R. Snomed2Vec: Random Walk and Poincaré Embeddings of a Clinical Knowledge Base for Healthcare Analytics. Proceedings of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Workshop on Applied Data Science in Healthcare, Seattle, Washington, USA. 2019.  *Acquired the dataset, managed the project team, and provided critical input on the initial study idea, design of the experiment, and interpretation of results.
31. Ling A, Lee-Caswell J, Sledge G, Kurian A, Shah N, Tamang S. Using Natural Language Processing to Construct A Metastatic Breast Cancer Cohort From Linked Cancer Registry and Electronic Medical Records Data. Journal of the Medical Informatics Association. 2019; 2(4):528-537. *Supported data acquisition.  Mentored lead author, providing support on study design, implementation of NLP methods and evaluation.  Contributed to writing and revision of the manuscript.
32. Pestian J, Santel D, Sorter M, Bayram U, Connolly B, Glauser T, DelBello M, Tamang S, Cohen K. A Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Changes in Suicidal Language. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2020 Oct;50(5):939-947. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12642. Epub 2020 Jun 2. PMID: 32484597. *Contributed to the interpretation of results and to the writing and revision of the manuscript.
33. Adelborg K, Farkas DK, Schapira L, Tamang S, Fenton DC, Cullen M, Sørensen HT.  Risk of primary gastrointestinal cancers following incident non-metastatic breast cancer: a Danish population-based cohort study. British Medical Journal Open Gastroenterology. 2020; 7(1), e000413. *Contributed to the interpretation of results and to the writing and revision of the manuscript.
34. Sundboll J, Kormendine Farkas D, Adelborg K, Schapira L, Tamang S, Nørgaard M, Cullen M, Cronin-Fenton D, Sørensen HT.  Risk of primary urological and genital cancers following incident breast cancer: a Danish population-based cohort study. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 2020; 184(4),825-837.  *Contributed to the interpretation of results and to the writing and revision of the manuscript.
35. Fronsdal T, Bhattacharya J, Tamang S.  Variation in Health Care Prices Across Public and Private Payers. National Bureau of Economic Review Working Paper. September, 2020 Working Paper No. 20-036 2020.  *Acquired the dataset.  Contributed to the writing and revision of the manuscript.
36. Thomsen RW, Christiansen CF, Heide-Jorgensen U, Vogelstein JT, Vogelstein B, Bettegowda C, Tamang S, Athey S, Sørensen HT. 2021. Association of alpha-1 blocker use with mortality and intensive care unit admission in hospitalized Danish adults with influenza or pneumonia. JAMA Network Open. 2021 Feb 1;4(2):e2037053.doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.37053.  *Connected the study team. Contributed to the writing and revision of the manuscript.
37. Powell Michael , Koenecke A, James B, Nishimura A, Konig M, Xiong R, Mahmood, S, Mucaj V, Bettegowda C, Rose L, Tamang S, Sacarny A, Caffo B, Athey S, Stuart E, Vogelstein J. 2021. Ten Rules for Conducting Retrospective Pharmacoepidemiological Analyses: Example COVID-19 Study. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 12. 10.3389/fphar.2021.700776. *Contributed to sections on data readiness and informatics tools to standardize clinical information from the EMR and administrative claims databases.
38. Tamang S, Humbert-Droz M, Gianfrancesco M, Izadi Z, Schmajuk G, Yazdany J. Practical Considerations for Developing Clinical Natural Language Processing Systems for Population Health Management and Measurement. JMIR Med Inform. 2023 Jan 3;11:e37805. doi: 10.2196/37805. PMID: 36595345.*Developed the outline with coauthors.  Led the writing and revision of the manuscript. 
39. Mahbub M, Begoli B, Martins S, Peluso A, Tamang S, Peterson G. 2023. cpgQA: A Benchmark Dataset for Machine Reading Comprehension Tasks on Clinical Practice Guidelines and a Case Study Using Transfer Learning. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Access.  11, pp. 3691-3705, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3235265.  Contributed to the study design, interpretation of results and to the revision of the manuscript.
40. Tamang S, Jin Z, Periyakoil VJ.  Revelations from a Machine Learning Analysis of the Most Downloaded Articles Published in Journal of Palliative Medicine 1999-2018.  Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2023 Jan;26(1):13-16. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2022.0574. PMID: 36607778.  Led the study design, acquisition of data, supervised the analysis, supported the interpretation of results and led the drafting and revision of the manuscript.
41. 48. Choudhury S, Agarwal K, Ham C, Tamang S. MediSage: An AI Assistant for Healthcare via Composition of Neural Symbolic Reasoning Operators. Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (WWW ‘23 Companion).  Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY USA, 258-261. https://doi.org/10.1145/3543873.3587361  *Contributed to the development of the MediSage system, refining the use case and access to the dataset.  Contributed to the final revision of the paper.
42. 49. Humbert-Droz M, Izadi Z, Schmajuk G, Gianfrancesco M, Baker MC, Yazdany J, Tamang S. Development of a Natural Language Processing System for Extracting Rheumatoid Arthritis Outcomes From Clinical Notes Using the National Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness Registry. Arthritis Care Research (Hoboken). 2023 Mar;75(3):608-615. doi: 10.1002/acr.24869. Epub 2022 Oct 31. PMID: 35157365.  
43. McElfresh DC, Chen L, Oliva E, Joyce V, Rose S, Tamang S. A call for better validation of opioid overdose risk algorithms. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2023 Jul 10:ocad110. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocad110. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37428897. Contributed to the conception, development and editing of the manuscript.
44. Zhu DT, Tamang S*, Humphreys K*. Promises and perils of the FDA’s over-the-counter naloxone reclassification. Lancet Regional Health Americas. 2023 May 22;23:100518. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2023.100518. PMID: 37497396; PMCID: PMC10366474. *shared senior authorship.  Contributed to the conception, development and editing of the manuscript.
45. Newman-Griffis DR, Desmet B, Zirikly A, Tamang S, Chang CH. Editorial: Artificial intelligence for human function and disability. Frontiers in Digital Health. 2023 Sep 8;5:1282287. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2023.1282287. PMID: 37744682; PMCID: PMC10515276. Contributed to the conception of the special series, the initial draft and edits to the manuscript.
46. Zhu DT, Friedman J, Bourgois P, Montero F, Tamang S. The emerging fentanyl-xylazine syndemic in the USA: challenges and future directions. Lancet. 2023 Aug 24:S0140-6736(23)01686-0. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01686-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37634523. Contributed to the conception, development and editing of the manuscript.
47. List JM, Palevsky P, Tamang S, Crowley S, Au D, Yarbrough WC, Navathe AS, Kreisler C, Parikh RB, Wang-Rodriguez J, Klutts JS, Conlin P, Pogach L, Meerwijk E, Moy E. Eliminating Algorithmic Racial Bias in Clinical Decision Support Algorithms: Use Cases from the Veterans Health Administration. Journal of Health Equity. 2023 Nov 30;7(1):809-816. doi: 10.1089/heq.2023.0037. PMID: 38076213; PMCID: PMC10698768. Contributed section on algorithmic bias assessment in opioid risk prediction and the overall conceptual framing of the final manuscript.
48. Meerwijk EL, Jones GA, Shotqara AS, Reyes S, Tamang SR, Eddington HS, Reeves RM, Finlay AK, Harris AHS. Development of a 3-Step theory of suicide ontology to facilitate 3ST factor extraction from clinical progress notes. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2023 Dec 30;150:104582. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104582. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38160758. Supported the adapt an NLP tool I developed a study-specific suicide prevention use case, advised team on  the development of the ontology and contributed to the development and editing of the manuscript.
49. Dhaubhadel S, Ganguly K, Ribeiro RM, Cohn JD, Hyman JM, Hengartner NW, Kolade B, Singley A, Bhattacharya T, Finley P, Levin D, Thelen H, Cho K, Costa L, Ho YL, Justice AC, Pestian J, Santel D, Zamora-Resendiz R, Crivelli S, Tamang S, Martins S, Trafton J, Oslin DW, Beckham JC, Kimbrel NA; Million Veteran Program Suicide Exemplar Work Group; McMahon BH. High dimensional predictions of suicide risk in 4.2 million US Veterans using ensemble transfer learning. Nature Scientific Reports. 2024 Jan 20;14(1):1793. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-51762-9. PMID: 38245528; PMCID: PMC10799879.
50. McManus KF, Stringer JM, Corson N, Fodeh S, Steinhardt S, Levin FL, Shotqara AS, D’Auria J, Fielstein EM, Gobbel GT, Scott J, Trafton JA, Taddei TH, Erdos J, Tamang SR. Deploying a national clinical text processing infrastructure. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2024 Feb 16;31(3):727-731. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocad249. PMID: 38146986; PMCID: PMC10873837. Developed the NLP tool deployed nationally by the VA, led the engineering team and supported the first author in the conception, development and editing of the manuscript.
51. Falasinnu T, Nguyen T, Jiang TE, Tamang S, Chaichian Y, Darnall BD, Mackey S, Simard JF, Chen JH. The problem of pain in rheumatology: variations in case definitions derived from chronic pain phenotyping algorithms using electronic health records. The Journal of Rheumatology. 2024 Mar 1;51(3):297-304.
52. Falasinnu T, Nguyen T, En Jiang T, Tamang S, Chaichian Y, Darnall BD, Mackey S, Simard JF, Chen JH. The Problem of Pain in Rheumatology: Variations in Case Definitions Derived From Chronic Pain Phenotyping Algorithms Using Electronic Health Records. Journal of Rheumatology. 2024 Mar 1;51(3):297-304. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.2023-0416. PMID: 38101917.  Provided feedback on the phenotyping methods and edits to the manuscript.
53. Zhu DT, Zhong A, Ho WJ, Tamang S. Disaggregating Asian-American Mortality in Drug-Related Overdoses and Behavioral Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Racial Ethnic Health Disparities. 2024 Mar 26. doi: 10.1007/s40615-024-01983-5. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38530623.
54. Mahbub M, Goethert I, Danciu I, Knight K, Srinivasan S, Tamang S, Rozenberg-Ben-Dror K, Solares H, Martins S, Trafton J, Begoli E, Peterson GD. Question-answering system extracts information on injection drug use from clinical notes. Nature Communications Medicine (Lond). 2024 Apr 3;4(1):61. doi: 10.1038/s43856-024-00470-6. PMID: 38570620; PMCID: PMC10991373.
55. Knight K, Danciu I, Ovchinnikova O, Hinkle J, Shekar MC, Mukherjee D, McAllister E, Rizy C, Cho K, Justice AC, Erdos J. VISION: Toward a Standardized Process for Radiology Image Management at the National Level. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.18842. 2024 Apr 29.
56. Zhu DT, Lai A, Park A, Zhong A, Tamang S. Disparities in cancer mortality among disaggregated Asian American subpopulations, 2018–2021. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 2024 Jun 25:1-23.
57. Chandrashekar M, Goethert I, Haque MI, McMahon B, Dhaubhadel S, Knight K, Erdos J, Reagan D, Taylor C, Kuzmak P, Gaziano JM. Domain Shift Analysis in Chest Radiographs Classification in a Veterans Healthcare Administration Population. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.21149. 2024 Jul 30.
58. Meerwijk EL, McElfresh DC, Martins S, Tamang SR. Evaluating accuracy and fairness of clinical decision support algorithms when health care resources are limited. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2024 Aug 1;156:104664.
59. Meerwijk EL, Shotqara AS, Finlay AK, Reeves RM, Tamang SR, Ilgen MA, Harris AH. Computing 3‐Step Theory of Suicide Factor Scores From Veterans Health Administration Clinical Progress Notes. Suicide and Life‐Threatening Behavior. 2025 Feb;55(1):e70004.
60. Begum T, Veeranki B, Chike OJ, Tamang S, Simard JF, Chen J, Chaichian Y, Mackey S, Darnall BD, Falasinnu T. Refining chronic pain phenotypes: A comparative analysis of sociodemographic and disease-related determinants using electronic health records. The Journal of Pain. 2025 Mar 1;28:104775.

Conference Abstracts

1. Fishman E and Tamang S. “Utilization of custodial nursing homes by Elderplan Social HMO Members: evidence of reductions”. National Council on Aging / American Society on Aging Joint Conference. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.  2006.
2. Fishman E and Tamang S. “Utilization of custodial nursing homes by Elderplan Social HMO members: predicting expected rates using Medicare Health Outcomes Survey data”. American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. 2007.
3. Tamang S, Sepidek S, Shah NH, Cullen M.  “Employee Wellness Programs: Trends Across Age and Activity Groups”. Annual Scientific Meeting: Gerontological Society of America.  New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. 2016.
4. Tamang S, Kono JR, Mackey L, Janson L, Milstein A, Sorensen HT, Pedersen L, Nigam NH. “Predicting Patient Cost Blooms: A Longitudinal Population-based Study”.  American Statistical Associations Joint Statistical Meeting. 2016.
5. Tamang S, Gaskin G, Patel M, Shah NH. “Shifting the Quality Measurement Paradigm Using Electronic Health Records”. AcademyHealth Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. USA, 2015.
6. Tamang S, Patel MI, Finlayson S, Chen X, Kuznetsov JL, Blayney DW, Shah NH. “Assessing the true nature of unplanned cancer care”. American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Care Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts. USA. 2014.
7. Tamang S. “Next Generation Clinical Decision Support for the Learning Healthcare System”.  National Academy of Medicine, Channeling the Potential of Artificial Intelligence to Advance Health Equity Workshop.  Aug 2021.
8. Ou W, Tamang S, Mohanty A, Stevenson M, Jones M. “COVID-19 Management from the Learning Health System Perspective”.  AcademyHealth Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference, Arlington, Virginia, USA. 2022.
9. Fleming N, Tamang S, Henao R, Hongfang Li. “Predictive analytics and machine learning”.  AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Washington DC, USA. June 2022.
10. Kuzmak P, Erdos J, Maa A, Osborne T, Arreola D, Tamang S.  “Integrating DICOM Images with the Department of Veterans Affairs Corporate Data Warehouse”.  Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Conference on Machine Intelligence and Medical Imaging (C-MIMI).  Baltimore MD, USA. Oct 2022.
11. Chandrashekar M, Goethert I, Alamoudun F, Danciu I, Regan D, Tamang S, Taylor C, Fodah S, Mcmahon B, Kuzmak P, Erdos J, Gaziano JM, Ovchinnikova O, Justice A, Hinkle J. “Quantifying the Effect of Domain Shift on Chest X-ray Classification”.  Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Conference on Machine Intelligence and Medical Imaging (C-MIMI). Baltimore MD, USA. Oct 2022.
12. Tamang S, Reeves R, Gobbel G.  “Natural Language Processing: Design, Development and Decision”.  Department of Veterans Affairs HSR&D/QUERI Research Meeting. Baltimore MD, USA.  Feb 2023.
13. Oliva E, Sandbrik F, Maguire E, Tamang S, Losby J.  “Identifying High-risk Patients for Harm Reduction, Risk Mitigation, and Treatment Outreach: Leveraging the Veterans Health Administration’s Transformative Approach to Improving the Opioid Safety and Decreasing All-Cause Mortality”.  Rx and Illicit Drug Summit. Atlanta GA, USA. April 2023.
14. Tamang S, McManus K, Stringer MJ, Steinhardt S, Levin W, Jarad S, Walk N, Gobbel G, Fielstein E, Corson N, Taddei T, Scott J, Erdos J, Trafton J. “Operationalizing a National Scale Natural Language Processing System at the Department of Veterans Affairs”, Session on AI/ML in Military Medicine, Military Health System Research Symposium.  Kissimmee FL, August 2023.
15. Harris AH, Shotqara A, Meerwijk EL, Tamang SR, Eddington H, Logan D, Massarweh NN. Automated Versus Semi-automated Lab Value Extraction for the VA Cardiac Surgical Quality Improvement Program. Journal of Surgical Research. 2024 Oct 1;302:47-52.
16. Stolyar L, Mar D, Liu Y, Velasquez E, Sharpe O, Weisman M, Caplan L, Tamang S. Assessing the PULSAR (Program to Understand the Long-term Outcomes in Spondyloarthritis) Registry for Environmental Determinants of Health Research. In Arthritis & Rheumatology 2024 Sep 1 (Vol. 76, pp. 3817-3819).
17. Wiley K, Tamang S, Chin E, Reitsma M, Schuler A, Falasinnu T. Advancing Health Services Research through Cutting-Edge Data Science Methods. In2024 Annual Research Meeting 2024 Jul 2. AcademyHealth.
18. Wiley K, Tamang S, Chin E, Reitsma M, Schuler A, Falasinnu T. Advancing Health Services Research through Cutting-Edge Data Science Methods. In 2024 Annual Research Meeting 2024 Jul 2. AcademyHealth.
19. Fairchild R, Mar D, Deluna M, Baker M, Tamang S, Guo H, Fiorentino D, Chung L. Artificial Intelligence Assisted Interpretation of Lung Ultrasound Imaging for the Detection of Interstitial Lung Disease. In Arthritis & Rheumatology 2024 Sep 1 (Vol. 76, pp. 3994-3996).