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Gabriel J. Escobar, MD, FAAP

Gabriel J. Escobar, MD, FAAPKaiser Permanente Division of Research
2000 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94612

(510) 891-3502 (phone)
gabriel.escobar@kp.org

Gabriel J. Escobar, MD, FAAP, is a research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research and the director of the Division of Research Perinatal Research Unit. Dr. Escobar received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine; completed his pediatrics residency at University of California, San Francisco; and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Escobar practices clinical medicine at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Walnut Creek where he works in the neonatal intensive care nursery and as a hospital-based pediatrician. Dr. Escobar’s research interests include the outcome of neonatal intensive care, the epidemiology of neonatal and perinatal care in general, severity of illness scoring, medical informatics, quantification of care processes in obstetrics, and electronic decision support for human-error reduction.

Current Position(s):

  • Research Scientist III, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
  •  Staff Pediatrician, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Walnut Creek, California

Primary Research Interests:

  • Perinatal health services research
  • Informatics and electronic decision support
  • Guidelines development
  • Critical care research
  • Severity of illness scoring
  • Outcome of high risk newborns
  • Human error
  • Assessment of prenatal care
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Outcomes among patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDOC project - C Diff OutComes)

This project will examine predictors of and outcomes after recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in adults.
Funder: Merck and Co., Inc.
Principal Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel

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New methods for the electronic identification and verification of ventilator-acquired pneumonia (NVAP project)

Novartis Diagnostics and DOR wish to conduct a study on the identification of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) using an integrated inpatient electronic medical record (EMR). In order to conduct this study, Novartis Diagnostics would like to work with Dr. Gabriel J. Escobar of The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.'s Division of Research (DOR) to prepare a formal grant proposal for a research project provisionally titled "Electronic identification of VAP in ICU patients" (henceforth, "VAP and the EMR). 
Funder: Novartis
Principal Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel

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Intelligent Histories: Detecting Personalized Risk With Longitudinal Surveillance

The purpose of this study is to extract and format necessary data from the various databases to be accessed for its parent project.
Funder: National Cancer Institute
Principal Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel

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Rapid Clinical Snapshots From the EMR Among Pneumonia Patients

This project aims to use the inpatient electronic medical record to identify which hospitalized pneumonia patients are at risk for getting worse, and to develop ways to present this information to physicians and nurses so as to prevent the need for admission to intensive care.
Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Principal Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel

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Early Detection of Impending Physiologic Deterioration Among Hospitalized Patients

This project aims to develop computer algorithms that can be embedded in the inpatient electronic medical record. These algorithms would detect when a patient in a general medical-surgical ward is at high risk of death or physiologic deterioration and requiring unplanned transfer to intensive care. 
Funder: TPMG, KFH, East Bay Community Foundation
Principal Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel

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Treatment and Cost of Neonatal Jaundice in a Large HMO

This project aims to look at the epidemiology and efficacy of phototherapy in the treatment of neonatal jaundice. 
Funder: Nat. Inst. of Child Health and Human Dev.
Principal Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel

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Systems Research Initiative

This initiative is a comprehensive effort to quantify predictors of and outcomes of hospitalization among adults in the Northern California Region. Special emphasis is placed on those conditions and processes associated with catastrophic outcomes.
Funder: TPMG, KFH, East Bay Community Foundation
Principal Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel

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Sepsis and Critical Illness in Babies at 34 Weeks Gestation and longer

This study involves three components, including a nested case-control study to quantify maternal and infant clinical risk factors for early onset bacterial infection. 
Funder: National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Principal Investigator: Escobar, Gabriel