Associate Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan

Associate Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan

Associate Professor
  • PhD (2002), Climate Modelling, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • MS (1995), Quantum Chemistry, Autonoma University of Madrid
  • BS (1994), Physics, Autonoma University of Madrid
  • Postgraduate courses on Quantitative Financial Methods, University of Technology Sydney
Medicine & Health
Centre for Big Data Research in Health

Blanca Gallego Luxan PhD, MS, BS                                            Google Scholar Profile

Associate Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan leads a research unit in Clinical analytics and machine learning at the Centre for Big Data Research in Health, UNSW.

Trained as a physicist, Blanca obtained a PhD in climate modelling from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She then relocated to Australia where she worked at the University of Sydney developing accounting frameworks for assessing the environmental impact of corporations. Blanca joined the Australian Institute of Health innovation (AIHI) in 2006. During her time at AIHI, she established a growing and successful research program in Health Analytics, developing and evaluating state-of-the-art techniques for clinical decision support, precision medicine, patient safety, and biosurveillance. In November 2017 she joined the Centre for Big Data Research as head of the Clinical Machine Learning Research Unit.

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  • Book Chapters | 2012
    Gallego B; Concha ÓP; Lin FPY; Coiera EW, 2012, 'Exploring the role of pathology test results in the prediction of remaining days of hospitalisation.', in , pp. 45 - 50
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Gallego B; Lenzen M, 2009, 'Estimating Generalized Regional Input–Output Systems: A Case Study of Australia', in The Dynamics of Regions and Networks in Industrial Ecosystems, Edward Elgar Publishing, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781848449374.00014
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Blake V; Jorm L; Yu J; Lee A; Gallego B; Ooi SY, 2024, 'Data Resource Profile: The Cardiac Analytics and Innovation (CardiacAI) Data Repository', International Journal of Epidemiology, 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyae040
    Journal articles | 2024
    Chen T; Loo C; Salvador-Carulla L; Jorm LR; Srasuebkul P; Sara G; Quiroz JC; Gallego B, 2024, 'Factors associated with electroconvulsive therapy treatment for adults with serious psychiatric conditions in Australia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 58, pp. 809 - 820, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00048674241266067
    Journal articles | 2024
    Huberts LCE; Li S; Blake V; Jorm L; Yu J; Ooi SY; Gallego B, 2024, 'Predictive analytics for cardiovascular patient readmission and mortality: An explainable approach', Computers in Biology and Medicine, 174, pp. 108321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108321
    Journal articles | 2024
    Schuler T; Roderick S; Wong S; Kejda A; Grimberg K; Lowe T; Kipritidis J; Back M; Bergamin S; Carroll S; Hruby G; Jayamanne D; Kneebone A; Lamoury G; Morgia M; Stevens M; Brown C; Gallego B; Porter B; Booth J; Eade T, 2024, 'Real-World Implementation of Simulation-Free Radiation Therapy (SFRT-1000): A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of 1000 Consecutive Palliative Courses Delivered in Routine Care', International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2024.09.041
    Journal articles | 2023
    Fitzgerald O; Perez-Concha O; Gallego-Luxan B; Metke-Jimenez A; Rudd L; Jorm L, 2023, 'Continuous time recurrent neural networks: Overview and benchmarking at forecasting blood glucose in the intensive care unit', Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104498
    Journal articles | 2023
    Fitzgerald O; Perez-Concha O; Gallego-Luxan B; Rudd L; Jorm L, 2023, 'The relationship between hyperglycaemia on admission and patient outcome is modified by hyperlactatemia and diabetic status: a retrospective analysis of the eICU collaborative research database', Scientific Reports, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43044-7
    Journal articles | 2023
    Liu L; Perez-Concha O; Nguyen A; Bennett V; Blake V; Gallego B; Jorm L, 2023, 'Web-Based Application Based on Human-in-the-Loop Deep Learning for Deidentifying Free-Text Data in Electronic Medical Records: Development and Usability Study.', Interact J Med Res, 12, pp. e46322, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/46322
    Journal articles | 2023
    Salis Z; Gallego B; Nguyen TV; Sainsbury A, 2023, 'Association of Decrease in Body Mass Index With Reduced Incidence and Progression of the Structural Defects of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Prospective Multi-Cohort Study', Arthritis and Rheumatology, 75, pp. 533 - 543, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/art.42307
    Journal articles | 2023
    Salis Z; Gallego B; Sainsbury A, 2023, 'Researchers in rheumatology should avoid categorization of continuous predictor variables', BMC medical research methodology, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-01926-4
    Journal articles | 2023
    Schuler T; King C; Matsveru T; Back M; Clark K; Chin D; Lilian R; Gallego B; Coiera E; Currow DC, 2023, 'Wearable-Triggered Ecological Momentary Assessments Are Feasible in People With Advanced Cancer and Their Family Caregivers: Feasibility Study from an Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic at a Cancer Center', Journal of Palliative Medicine, 26, pp. 980 - 985, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2022.0535
    Journal articles | 2022
    Almendra-Pegueros R; Troncoso-Pantoja C; Fernández-Villa T; Gamero A; Pérez-Armijo P; Petermann-Rocha F; Pérez-Esteve É; Brito NB; Camacho-López S; Pérez-López A; Nava-González EJ; Apolinar-Jiménez E; Lozano Lorca M; Gallego BR; Kammar-García A; Navarrete-Muñoz EM, 2022, 'Challenges of nutrition and dietetics in sexual and gender diversity', Revista Espanola de Nutricion Humana y Dietetica, 26, pp. 242 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.14306/renhyd.26.4.1853
    Journal articles | 2022
    Hwang H; Quiroz JC; Gallego B, 2022, 'Assessing the effectiveness of empirical calibration under different bias scenarios', BMC Medical Research Methodology, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01687-6
    Journal articles | 2022
    Jin X; Ding C; Hunter DJ; Gallego B, 2022, 'Effectiveness of vitamin D supplementation on knee osteoarthritis - A target trial emulation study using data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative cohort', Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 30, pp. 1495 - 1505, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2022.06.005
    Journal articles | 2022
    Jin X; Gallego Luxan B; Hanly M; Pratt NL; Harris I; de Steiger R; Graves SE; Jorm L, 2022, 'Estimating incidence rates of periprosthetic joint infection after hip and knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis using linked registry and administrative health data', Bone and Joint Journal, 104 B, pp. 1060 - 1066, http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.104B9.BJJ-2022-0116.R1
    Journal articles | 2022
    Liu J; Gallego B; Barbieri S, 2022, 'Incorporating uncertainty in learning to defer algorithms for safe computer-aided diagnosis', Scientific Reports, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05725-7
    Journal articles | 2022
    Miller M; Bootland D; Jorm L; Gallego B, 2022, 'Improving ambulance dispatch triage to trauma: A scoping review using the framework of development and evaluation of clinical prediction rules', Injury, 53, pp. 1746 - 1755, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2022.03.020
    Journal articles | 2022
    Quiroz JC; Brieger D; Jorm LR; Sy RW; Falster MO; Gallego B, 2022, 'An Observational Study of Clinical and Health System Factors Associated With Catheter Ablation and Early Ablation Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation in Australia', Heart Lung and Circulation, 31, pp. 1269 - 1276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2022.04.049
    Journal articles | 2022
    Quiroz JC; Chard T; Sa Z; Ritchie A; Jorm L; Gallego B, 2022, 'Extract, transform, load framework for the conversion of health databases to OMOP', PLoS ONE, 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266911
    Journal articles | 2022
    Salis Z; Keen H; Gallego B; Nguyen TV; Sainsbury-Salis A, 2022, 'WEIGHT LOSS IS ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED INCIDENCE AND PROGRESSION OF STRUCTURAL DEFECTS IN KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS, AS ASSESSED BY RADIOGRAPHY OVER 4 TO 5 YEARS: A PROSPECTIVE MULTI-COHORT STUDY', ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES, 81, pp. 149 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2022-eular.811
    Journal articles | 2022
    Salis Z; Sainsbury A; I. Keen H; Gallego B; Jin X, 2022, 'Weight loss is associated with reduced risk of knee and hip replacement: a survival analysis using Osteoarthritis Initiative data', International Journal of Obesity, 46, pp. 874 - 884, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41366-021-01046-3
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zhu J; Gallego B, 2022, 'Causal inference for observational longitudinal studies using deep survival models', Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104119
    Journal articles | 2021
    Castelyn G; Laranjo L; Schreier G; Gallego B, 2021, 'Predictive performance and impact of algorithms in remote monitoring of chronic conditions: A systematic review and meta-analysis', International Journal of Medical Informatics, 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2021.104620
    Journal articles | 2021
    Fitzgerald O; Perez-Concha O; Gallego B; Saxena MK; Rudd L; Metke-Jimenez A; Jorm L, 2021, 'Incorporating real-world evidence into the development of patient blood glucose prediction algorithms for the ICU', Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 28, pp. 1642 - 1650, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab060
    Journal articles | 2021
    Garrido CC; Gallego BR; García JCS; Martín JC; Troya MM; Blanque RR, 2021, 'The effect of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest on the neurological outcome and survival—a systematic review of rcts published between 2016 and 2020', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182211817
    Journal articles | 2021
    Pérez S; García-Alandete J; Gallego B; Marco JH, 2021, 'Characteristics and unidimensionality of non-suicidal self-injury in a community sample of Spanish adolescents', Psicothema, 33, pp. 251 - 258, http://dx.doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2020.249
    Journal articles | 2021
    Quiroz JC; Brieger D; Jorm L; Sy RW; Falster MO; Gallego B, 2021, 'An observational study of clinical and health system factors associated with catheter ablation and early ablation treatment for atrial fibrillation in Australia', , pp. 2021.09.03.21263104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.03.21263104
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zhu J; Gallego B, 2021, 'Evolution of disease transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic: patterns and determinants', Scientific Reports, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90347-8
    Journal articles | 2020
    Kennedy G; Rihari-Thomas J; Dras M; Gallego B, 2020, 'Developing a deep learning system to drive the work of the critical care outreach team', medRxiv
    Journal articles | 2020
    Khalifa M; Magrabi F; Luxan BG; Gallego Luxan B, 2020, 'Evaluating the Impact of the Grading and Assessment of Predictive Tools Framework on Clinicians and Health Care Professionals’ Decisions in Selecting Clinical Predictive Tools: Randomized Controlled Trial', Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22, pp. e15770, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15770
    Journal articles | 2020
    Lenzen M; Li M; Malik A; Pomponi F; Sun Y; Wiedmann T; Faturay F; Fry J; Gallego B; Geschke A, 2020, 'Global socio-economic losses and environmental gains from the Coronavirus pandemic', PloS one, 15, pp. e0235654, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235654
    Journal articles | 2020
    Zhu J; Gallego B, 2020, 'Evolution of disease transmission rate during the course of SARS-COV-2: patterns and determinants.', Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/
    Journal articles | 2020
    Zhu J; Gallego B, 2020, 'Targeted Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effect in Observational Survival Analysis', Journal of biomedical informatics, pp. 103474
    Journal articles | 2019
    Cardona M; O'Sullivan M; Lewis ET; Turner RM; Garden F; Alkhouri H; Asha S; Mackenzie J; Perkins M; Suri S; Holdgate A; McCarthy S; Hillman K; Gallego Luxan B, 2019, 'Prospective validation of a checklist to predict short‐term death in older patients after emergency department admission in Australia and Ireland', Academic Emergency Medicine, 26, pp. 610 - 620, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acem.13664
    Journal articles | 2019
    Kennedy G; Gallego B, 2019, 'Clinical prediction rules: A systematic review of healthcare provider opinions and preferences', International Journal of Medical Informatics, 123, pp. 1 - 10
    Journal articles | 2019
    Khalifa M; Gallego B, 2019, 'Grading and assessment of clinical predictive tools for paediatric head injury: A new evidence-based approach', BMC Emergency Medicine, 19, pp. 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-019-0249-y
    Journal articles | 2019
    Khalifa M; Gallego B, 2019, 'Grading and assessment of clinical predictive tools for paediatric head injury: a new evidence-based approach', BMC emergency medicine, 19, pp. 1 - 12
    Journal articles | 2019
    Khalifa M; Magrabi F; Gallego B, 2019, 'Developing a framework for evidence-based grading and assessment of predictive tools for clinical decision support', BMC medical informatics and decision making, 19, pp. 207 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0940-7
    Journal articles | 2019
    Khalifa M; Magrabi F; Gallego B, 2019, 'Developing an Evidence-Based Framework for Grading and Assessment of Predictive Tools for Clinical Decision Support', arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.03706
    Journal articles | 2019
    Khalifa M; Magrabi F; Gallego B, 2019, 'Evaluating the Impact of Using GRASP Framework on Clinicians and Healthcare Professionals Decisions in Selecting Clinical Predictive Tools', arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.11523
    Journal articles | 2019
    Khalifa M; Magrabi F; Gallego B, 2019, 'Validating and Updating GRASP: A New Evidence-Based Framework for Grading and Assessment of Clinical Predictive Tools', arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.11524
    Journal articles | 2019
    Schuler T; Kipritidis J; Eade T; Hruby G; Kneebone A; Perez M; Grimberg K; Richardson K; Evill S; Evans B; Gallego Luxan B, 2019, 'Big data readiness in radiation oncology: an efficient approach for relabeling radiation therapy structures with their TG-263 Standard name in real-world data sets', Advances in radiation oncology, 4, pp. 191 - 200, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adro.2018.09.013
    Journal articles | 2019
    Walter SR; Gallego B, 2019, 'Detecting Adverse Drug Events: Accuracy and Generalizability', Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science, 53, pp. 795 - 796
    Journal articles | 2018
    Cardona M; Lewis ET; Kristensen MR; Skjøt-Arkil H; Ekmann AA; Nygaard HH; Jensen JJ; Jensen RO; Pedersen JL; Turner RM; Asha S; Garden F; Alkhouri H; Holdgate A; McCarthy S; Hillman K; Gallego Luxan B, 2018, 'Predictive validity of the CriSTAL tool for short-term mortality in older people presenting at emergency departments: a prospective study', European geriatric medicine, 9, pp. 891 - 901, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41999-018-0123-6
    Journal articles | 2018
    Cardona M; Lewis ET; Turner RM; Alkhouri H; Asha S; Mackenzie J; Perkins M; Suri S; Holdgate A; Winoto L; Hillman K; McCarthy S; Gallego Luxan B, 2018, 'Efficacy of a tool to predict short-term mortality in older people presenting at emergency departments: protocol for a multi-centre cohort study', Archives of gerontology and geriatrics, 76, pp. 169 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2018.02.014
    Journal articles | 2018
    He J; Gallego B; Stubbs C; Scott A; Dawson S; Forrest K; Kennedy C, 2018, 'Improving patient flow and satisfaction: An evidence-based pre-admission clinic and transfer of care pathway for elective surgery patients', Collegian, 25, pp. 149 - 156
    Journal articles | 2018
    Laranjo L; Dunn AG; Tong HL; Kocaballi AB; Chen J; Bashir R; Surian D; Gallego B; Magrabi F; Lau AYS, 2018, 'Conversational agents in healthcare: a systematic review', Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 25, pp. 1248 - 1258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocy072
    Journal articles | 2018
    Maali Y; Perez-Concha O; Coiera E; Roffe D; Day RO; Gallego B, 2018, 'Predicting 7-day, 30-day and 60-day all-cause unplanned readmission: a case study of a Sydney hospital', BMC medical informatics and decision making, 18, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-017-0580-8
    Journal articles | 2018
    Wendling T; Jung K; Callahan A; Schuler A; Shah NH; Gallego B, 2018, 'Comparing methods for estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects using observational data from health care databases', Statistics in Medicine
    Journal articles | 2017
    Cardona-Morrell M; Kim JCH; Brabrand M; Gallego-Luxan B; Hillman K; Gallego Luxan B, 2017, 'What is inappropriate hospital use for elderly people near the end of life? A systematic review', European journal of internal medicine, 42, pp. 39 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2017.04.014
    Journal articles | 2017
    Walter SR; Day RO; Gallego B; Westbrook JI, 2017, 'The impact of serious adverse drug reactions: a population‐based study of a decade of hospital admissions in New South Wales, Australia', British journal of clinical pharmacology, 83, pp. 416 - 426
    Journal articles | 2017
    Zhou N; Gallego B; Bao J; Tsafnat G, 2017, 'Pan-cancer scale landscape of simple somatic mutations', BioRxiv, pp. 112367
    Journal articles | 2016
    Cai X; Perez-Concha O; Coiera E; Martin-Sanchez F; Day R; Roffe D; Gallego B, 2016, 'Real-time prediction of mortality, readmission, and length of stay using electronic health record data', Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 23, pp. 553 - 561, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocv110
    Journal articles | 2016
    Cardona-Morrell M; Chapman A; Turner RM; Lewis E; Gallego-Luxan B; Parr M; Hillman K; Gallego Luxan B, 2016, 'Pre-existing risk factors for in-hospital death among older patients could be used to initiate end-of-life discussions rather than rapid response system calls: a case-control study', Resuscitation, 109, pp. 76 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2016.09.031
    Journal articles | 2016
    Wang Y; Coiera E; Gallego B; Concha OP; Ong M; Tsafnat G; Roffe D; Jones G; Magrabi F, 2016, 'Measuring the effects of computer downtime on hospital pathology processes', Journal of biomedical informatics, 59, pp. 308 - 315
    Journal articles | 2015
    Gallego B; Magrabi F; Concha OP; Wang Y; Coiera E, 2015, 'Insights into temporal patterns of hospital patient safety from routinely collected electronic data', Health Information Science and Systems, 3, pp. s2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2501-3-s1-s2
    Journal articles | 2015
    Gallego B; Magrabi F; Concha OP; Wang Y; Coiera E, 2015, 'Insights into temporal patterns of hospital patient safety from routinely collected electronic data', Health information science and systems, 3, pp. S2
    Journal articles | 2015
    Gallego B; Walter SR; Day RO; Dunn AG; Sivaraman V; Shah N; Longhurst CA; Coiera E, 2015, 'Bringing cohort studies to the bedside: framework for a ‘green button’to support clinical decision-making', Journal of comparative effectiveness research, 4, pp. 191 - 197
    Journal articles | 2015
    Hu K; Sivaraman V; Luxan BG; Rahman A, 2015, 'Design and evaluation of a metropolitan air pollution sensing system', IEEE Sensors Journal, 16, pp. 1448 - 1459
    Journal articles | 2015
    Kennedy G, 2015, 'Characterisation of surgeries beyond billing codes',
    Journal articles | 2015
    Low YS; Gallego B; Shah NH, 2015, 'Comparing high-dimensional confounder control methods for rapid cohort studies from electronic health records', Journal of comparative effectiveness research, 5, pp. 179 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/cer.15.53
    Journal articles | 2014
    Coiera E; Wang Y; Magrabi F; Concha OP; Gallego B; Runciman W, 2014, 'Predicting the cumulative risk of death during hospitalization by modeling weekend, weekday and diurnal mortality risks', BMC health services research, 14, pp. 226 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-226
    Journal articles | 2014
    Concha OP; Gallego B; Hillman K; Delaney GP; Coiera E, 2014, 'Do variations in hospital mortality patterns after weekend admission reflect reduced quality of care or different patient cohorts? A population-based study', BMJ quality & safety, 23, pp. 215 - 222, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2013-002218
    Journal articles | 2013
    Gallego B; Dunn AG; Coiera E, 2013, 'Role of electronic health records in comparative effectiveness research', Journal of comparative effectiveness research, 2, pp. 529 - 532
    Journal articles | 2013
    Gallego B; Runciman WB; Perez-Concha O; Liaw S; Day RO; Dunn AG; Coiera E; Liaw T, 2013, 'The management of severe hypertension in Australian general practice', BMC health services research, 13, pp. 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-414
    Journal articles | 2012
    Dunn AG; Braithwaite J; Gallego B; Day RO; Runciman W; Coiera E, 2012, 'Nation-scale adoption of new medicines by doctors: an application of the Bass diffusion model', BMC health services research, 12, pp. 248 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-248
    Journal articles | 2012
    Dunn AG; Gallego B; Coiera E, 2012, 'Industry influenced evidence production in collaborative research communities: a network analysis', Journal of clinical epidemiology, 65, pp. 535 - 543
    Journal articles | 2012
    Forero R; McDonnell G; Gallego B; McCarthy S; Mohsin M; Shanley C; Formby F; Hillman K, 2012, 'A literature review on care at the end-of-life in the emergency department', Emergency medicine international, 2012, pp. 486516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/486516
    Journal articles | 2012
    Gallego B; Westbrook MT; Dunn AG; Braithwaite J, 2012, 'Investigating patient safety culture across a health system: multilevel modelling of differences associated with service types and staff demographics', International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 24, pp. 311 - 320
    Journal articles | 2012
    Gallego Luxan B; Braithwaite J, 2012, 'Safety in culture', MJA InSight
    Journal articles | 2012
    Lau AYS; Sintchenko V; Crimmins J; Magrabi F; Gallego B; Coiera E, 2012, 'Impact of a web-based personally controlled health management system on influenza vaccination and health services utilization rates: a randomized controlled trial', Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 19, pp. 719 - 727
    Journal articles | 2012
    Lau AYS; Sintchenko V; Crimmins J; Magrabi F; Gallego B; Coiera E, 2012, 'Protocol for a randomised controlled trial examining the impact of a web-based personally controlled health management system on the uptake of influenza vaccination rates', BMC Health Services Research, 12, pp. 86 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-86
    Journal articles | 2011
    Butnar I; Gallego B; Llop M; Castells F, 2011, 'Atmospheric emissions and structural path analysis in the Spanish economy', Air Pollution: Economic Modeling and Control Policies, Bentham e-Books, pp. 31 - 45
    Journal articles | 2010
    Dunn AG; Gallego B, 2010, 'Diffusion of competing innovations: The effects of network structure on the provision of healthcare', Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 13, pp. 8
    Journal articles | 2009
    Gallego B; Sintchenko V; Wang Q; Hiley L; Gilbert GL; Coiera E, 2009, 'Biosurveillance of emerging biothreats using scalable genotype clustering', Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 42, pp. 66 - 73
    Journal articles | 2009
    Lenzen M; Gallego B; Wood R, 2009, 'Matrix balancing under conflicting information', Economic Systems Research, 21, pp. 23 - 44
    Journal articles | 2009
    Sintchenko V; Gallego B; Chung G; Coiera E, 2009, 'Towards bioinformatics assisted infectious disease control.', BMC bioinformatics, 10 Suppl 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-s2-s10
    Journal articles | 2009
    Sintchenko V; Gallego B, 2009, 'Laboratory-guided detection of disease outbreaks: three generations of surveillance systems', Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine, 133, pp. 916 - 925
    Journal articles | 2009
    Sintchenko V; Gallego Luxan B; Chung GY; Coiera E, 2009, 'Towards bioinformatics assisted infectious disease control', BMC bioinformatics, 10, pp. S10-1 - S10-9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-S2-S10
    Journal articles | 2008
    Peters GM; Sack F; Lenzen M; Lundie S; Gellego B, 2008, 'Towards a deeper and broader ecological footprint', Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Engineering Sustainability, 161, pp. 31 - 37
    Journal articles | 2007
    Lenzen M; Wood R; Gallego B, 2007, 'Some comments on the GRAS method', Economic Systems Research, 19, pp. 461 - 465
    Journal articles | 2006
    Lenzen M; Dey C; Foran B; Gallego B; Murray J; Ward C; Wood R; Blackman E; Cole J; Sack F, 2006, 'Triple-bottom-line accounting of society, economy and environment-a new life-cycle software for business',
    Journal articles | 2006
    Lenzen M; Gallego B; Wood R, 2006, 'A flexible approach to matrix balancing under partial information', Journal of Applied Input-Output Analysis, 11, pp. 1 - 24
    Journal articles | 2006
    Peters G; Sack F; Lenzen M; Lundie S; Gallego B, 2006, 'A new ecological footprint calculation for the australian water industry: Regionalisation and inclusion of downstream impacts', J. Appl. Input-Output Analysis, 12, pp. 73 - 90
    Journal articles | 2005
    Gallego B; Lenzen M, 2005, 'A consistent input–output formulation of shared producer and consumer responsibility', Economic Systems Research, 17, pp. 365 - 391
    Journal articles | 2004
    Gallego B; Cessi P; McWilliams JC, 2004, 'The Antarctic Circumpolar Current in equilibrium', Journal of physical oceanography, 34, pp. 1571 - 1587
    Journal articles | 2002
    Gallego B, 2002, 'Simple models of large-scale midlatitude ocean-atmosphere dynamics', PhDT
    Journal articles | 2001
    Gallego B; Cessi P, 2001, 'Decadal variability of two oceans and an atmosphere', Journal of Climate, 14, pp. 2815 - 2832
    Journal articles | 2000
    Gallego B; Cessi P, 2000, 'Exchange of heat and momentum between the atmosphere and the ocean: a minimal model of decadal oscillations', Climate Dynamics, 16, pp. 479 - 489
    Journal articles | 2000
    Meléndez FJ; Gallego‐Luxan B; Demaison J; Smeyers YG, 2000, 'Ab initio determination of the infrared phosphine torsion spectrum in vinylphosphine with ZPE correction', Journal of Computational Chemistry, 21, pp. 1167 - 1175
    Journal articles | 1999
    Gallego B, 1999, 'Decadal Oscillations in the Mid-Latitude Ocean-Atmosphere System', Astrophysical and Geophysical Flows as Dynamical Systems 1998 Summer Study Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, pp. 277
    Journal articles | 1994
    Iglesias T; Noheda B; Gallego B; del Castillo JRF; Lifante G; Gonzalo JA, 1994, 'Scaling equation of state for ferroelectric triglycine selenate at T≈ Tc', EPL (Europhysics Letters), 28, pp. 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/28/2/003
    Journal articles |
    Karatzas KD; Iliadis L; Spartalis S; Bahrepour M; Meratnia N; Havinga PJM; Sezer A; Goktepe AB; Altun S; Yu T, 'Artificial Intelligence Applications in Environmental',
  • Preprints | 2024
    Greenberg JD; Huberts LCE; Ritchie A; Ooi S-Y; Flynn GM; Hart GK; Gallego Luxan BD, 2024, Improved Sensitivity For Detection Of Clinical Deterioration When Diagnostic Pathology And Patient Trends Are Included In Machine Learning Models, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.20.24315403
    Preprints | 2023
    Blake V; Jorm L; Yu J; Lee A; Gallego B; Ooi S-Y, 2023, The Cardiac Analytics and Innovation (CardiacAI) Data Repository: An Australian data resource for translational cardiovascular research, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2304.09341
    Preprints | 2023
    Liu L; Perez-Concha O; Nguyen A; Bennett V; Blake V; Gallego B; Jorm L, 2023, Web-Based Application Based on Human-in-the-Loop Deep Learning for Deidentifying Free-Text Data in Electronic Medical Records: Development and Usability Study (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.46322
    Conference Abstracts | 2022
    Jin X; Ding C; Hunter D; Gallego B, 2022, 'EFFECTIVENESS OF VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION ON KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS - A TARGET TRIAL EMULATION STUDY USING DATA FROM THE OSTEOARTHRITIS INITIATIVE COHORT', in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, Elsevier BV, Vol. 30, pp. S63 - S64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2022.02.074
    Preprints | 2022
    Quiroz JC; Brieger D; Jorm L; Sy RW; Hsu B; Gallego B, 2022, Predicting adverse outcomes following catheter ablation treatment for atrial fibrillation, , http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11965v2
    Preprints | 2022
    Sakal C; Hwang H; Quiroz JC; Gallego B, 2022, TreatmentEstimatoR: a Dashboard for Estimating Treatment Effects from Observational Health Data, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2203.10458
    Reports | 2022
    Smith GC; Vo K; Nathan S; Carland JE; Uebel K; Hieu Dinh H; Shulruf B; Torda A; Kennedy S; O'Sullivan AJ; Palit V; Gallego Luxan B; Velan G; Biles B, 2022, Re-imagining medical student research education - University of New South Wales, Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand Inc., Volume 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28474, https://medicaldeans.org.au/md/2022/06/Research-in-the-Medical-Curriculum-Volume-1-A-window-on-innovation-and-good-practice-2022.pdf
    Preprints | 2021
    Deng X; Feng Y; Sutjarittham T; Gharakheili HH; Gallego B; Sivaraman V, 2021, Comparing Broadband ISP Performance using Big Data from M-Lab, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2101.09795
    Preprints | 2021
    Gallego B; Zhu J, 2021, Time-to-event comparative effectiveness of NOACs vs VKAs in newly diagnosed non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261092
    Preprints | 2021
    Hwang H; Quiroz JC; Gallego B, 2021, Assessing The Effectiveness of Empirical Calibration Under Different Bias Scenarios, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1058822/v1
    Preprints | 2021
    Hwang H; Quiroz JC; Gallego B, 2021, Assessing the effectiveness of empirical calibration under different bias scenarios, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2111.04233
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Kennedy G; Dras M; Gallego B, 2021, 'Augmentation of Electronic Medical Record Data for Deep Learning', in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Virtual event, pp. 582 - 586, presented at 18th World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics, MedInfo 2021, Virtual event, 02 October 2021 - 04 October 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI220144
    Preprints | 2021
    Kennedy G; Gallego B, 2021, Clinician Readiness to Adopt A.I. for Critical Care Prioritisation, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.11.21251604
    Preprints | 2021
    Liu J; Gallego B; Barbieri S, 2021, Incorporating Uncertainty in Learning to Defer Algorithms for Safe Computer-Aided Diagnosis, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2108.07392
    Preprints | 2021
    Quiroz J; Chard T; Sa Z; Ritchie A; Jorm L; Gallego B, 2021, Extract, Transform, Load Framework for the Conversion of Health Databases to OMOP, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.08.21255178
    Preprints | 2021
    Zhu J; Gallego B, 2021, Evolution of disease transmission rate during the course of SARS-COV-2: Patterns and determinants, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-44647/v2
    Preprints | 2020
    Castelyn G; Laranjo L; Schreier G; Gallego B, 2020, Predictive performance and impact of algorithms in remote monitoring of chronic conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.19253
    Preprints | 2020
    Kennedy G; Rihari-Thomas J; Dras M; Gallego B, 2020, Developing a deep learning system to drive the work of the critical care outreach team, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.07.20148064
    Preprints | 2020
    Khalifa M; Magrabi F; Gallego B, 2020, Validating and Updating GRASP: An Evidence-Based Framework for Grading and Assessment of Clinical Predictive Tools, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-15929/v1
    Preprints | 2020
    Khalifa M; Magrabi F; Gallego B, 2020, Validating and Updating GRASP: An Evidence-Based Framework for Grading and Assessment of Clinical Predictive Tools, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-15929/v2
    Preprints | 2020
    Zhu J; Gallego B, 2020, Evolution of disease transmission rate during the course of SARS-COV-2: Patterns and determinants, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-44647/v1
    Preprints | 2019
    Khalifa M; Magrabi F; Gallego B, 2019, Developing an Evidence-Based Framework for Grading and Assessment of Predictive Tools for Clinical Decision Support, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1907.03706
    Preprints | 2019
    Khalifa M; Magrabi F; Gallego B, 2019, Evaluating the Impact of Using GRASP Framework on Clinicians and Healthcare Professionals Decisions in Selecting Clinical Predictive Tools, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1907.11523
    Preprints | 2019
    Khalifa M; Magrabi F; Gallego B, 2019, Validating and Updating GRASP: A New Evidence-Based Framework for Grading and Assessment of Clinical Predictive Tools, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1907.11524
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Schuler T; Hruby G; Kwong C; Clarke S; Gallego B; Eade T, 2018, 'Rationale and design of the Tracker Study: Exploring feasibility of real-time activity and weight monitoring during routine care of oncology patients', European Congress of Radiology-2018 ASM
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Schuler T; Liu T; Lamoury G; Morgia M; Carroll S; Hruby G; Kneebone A; Eade T; Brown C; Gallego B, 2018, 'Comparing comprehensiveness and accuracy of data between radiotherapy databases for breast and prostate cancer at the same institution', 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting
    Other | 2017
    Hopkins T; Messum S; Deady L; Dimitri A; Soars L; Gallego-Luxan B; McKenzie D; Sands M, 2017, Advance Care Planning (ACP) for end stage respiratory patients identified using the Hospital One year Mortality Rating (HOMR) tool, European Respiratory Society
    Preprints | 2017
    Zhou N; Gallego B; Bao J; Tsafnat G, 2017, Pan-cancer scale landscape of simple somatic mutations, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/112367
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Luxan BG; Magrabi F; Concha OP; Wang Y; Coiera E, 2013, 'Insights into patterns of healthcare delivery from hospital electronic medical records', in HISA Big Data in Biomedicine and Healthcare 2013 conference, Health Informatics Society of Australia, Melbourne, presented at Big Data in Health and Biomedicine, Melbourne, 18 April 2013 - 19 April 2013
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Sivaraman V; Carrapetta J; Hu K; Luxan BG, 2013, 'HazeWatch: A participatory sensor system for monitoring air pollution in Sydney', in 38th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks-Workshops, IEEE, pp. 56 - 64
    Conference Papers | 2010
    Dunn AG; Gallego Luxan B, 2010, 'Prescription volumes show that primary care is slow to respond to negative evidence, ACSQHC, 6-8 September, Perth.', in Prescription volumes show that primary care is slow to respond to negative evidence, ACSQHC, 6-8 September, Perth., 8th Australasian Conference on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, Perth, presented at 8th Australasian Conference on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, Perth, 06 September 2010 - 08 September 2010
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Akhtar M; Gallego B; Shiue AY; Sintchenko V, 2009, 'Prospective Biosurveillance for Early Detection of Disease Outbreaks', in HIC 2009: Proceedings; Frontiers of Health Informatics-Redefining Healthcare, National Convention Centre Canberra, 19-21 August 2009, Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA), Canberra, Australia, pp. 132, presented at Health Informatics Conference, Canberra, Australia, 19 August 2009 - 21 August 2009
    Conference Presentations | 2009
    Dunn A; Gallego Luxan B, 2009, 'Explaining low levels of recommended care in healthcare provision via diffusion through advice-giving networks', presented at S4 Conference on Emergence in Geographical Space, Paris, France, 23 November 2009 - 25 November 2009
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Sintchenko V; Gallego B; Chung G; Coiera E, 2009, 'Towards bioinformatics assisted infectious disease control', in BMC bioinformatics, BioMed Central, pp. 1 - 9
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Yu T; Lenzen M; Gallego B; Debenham JK, 2009, 'A Data Mining System for Estimating a Largesize Matrix for the Environmental Accounting.', in AIAI Workshops, Citeseer, Singapore, pp. 260 - 269, presented at 5th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations, Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 23 April 2009 - 25 April 2009
    Conference Papers | 2006
    Lenzen M; Wood R; Gallego B, 2006, 'RAS matrix balancing under conflicting information', in Intermediate Input-Output Meetings
    Conference Papers | 1999
    Gallego B; Cessi P, 1999, 'Decadal oscillations in the mid-latitude ocean-atmosphere system', in 12TH CONFERENCE ON ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC FLUID DYNAMICS, AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, NY, NEW YORK, pp. 188 - 192, presented at 12th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, NY, NEW YORK, 07 June 1999 - 11 June 1999, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000168477900057&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Other | 1995
    Luxan BG, 1995, Modelo de bases vibracionales contraidas aplicado a los modos de torsion y aleteo de la molecula de metilamina, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias,
    Conference Papers |
    X. Cai, O. Perez-Concha, F. Martin-Sanchez, B. Gallego. , 'Modelling of Time Series Health Data using Dynamic Bayesian Networks: An application to predictions of patient outcomes after multiple surgeries.', in Proceedings of the Big Data Conference 2014, Melbourne

  National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Grants

  • Centre for Research Excellence in Digital Health     Co-investigator $2,500,000 (2018-2022)
  • Research Project Grant in Precision Medicine         Lead investigator $520,967 (2017-2019)
  • Research Project Grant in Clinical Analytics            Lead investigator $312,000 (2013-2016)
  • Centre for Research Excellence in e-health             Co-investigator $2,500,000 (2011-2015)  

  Hearing Industry Research Consortium Grants

  • Large-scale clinical hearing rehabilitation data                      Co-investigator $150,00 (2015)

  St Vincent’s Clinic Foundation Grants

  • Predicting hospital readmission risk                                      Lead investigator $30,00 (2015)

  Australia-India Strategic Funds

  • Modelling Large-Scale Linked Data                                        Co-investigator $27,400 (2013)

  HCF Health and Medical Research Grant

  • An independent national clinical evidence service   Co-investigator $1,000,000 (2008-2009)

 

  • Best paper awards at international conferences    1999, 2009, 2012 and 2017
  • Researcher of the year award (AIHI)                                                           2015
  • Bjerkness Memorial award (UCLA)                                                             2002
  • Postgraduate Fellowships                                             1995, 1995-1998, 1999

 

  • Enabling Personalised Cohort Studies from Large Repositories of Clinical Practice Data.
  • Aim: To design, develop and validate methods for the estimation of treatment effects for individual patients using EMR, ultimately supporting the practice of precision medicine.
  • Principal Investigators: Associate Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan, Elliott Zhu (PhD student)

 

  • Identification of patients at the end-of-life using HOMR Score at Prince of Wales Hospital
  • Aim: The main aim of this tool is to provide a platform that helps clinicians start discussions around symptom assessment and management and also to make sure that advance care directives are recorded in the EMR, ultimately improving care for end-of-life patients.
  • Principal Investigators: Dr Meg Sands (SESLHD – lead investigator), Associate Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan, Sarah-Jane Messum (SESLHD), Antony Kodsi.

 

  • Identification of cancer patients likely to have radiation treatment plan violations at North Shore Hospital.
  • Aim: The aim of this tool is to improve the quality and efficiency of developing radiation treatment plans.
  • Principal Investigators: Dr Thilo Schuler (NSLHD and PhD student leading this project), Associate Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan (supervisor), Professor Thomas Eade (Central Coast LHD), Dr John Kipritidis (NSLHD).

 

  • ‘watch list’ tool at St Vincent’s Hospital. This tool provides an automatically-populated list of patients at high risk of deterioration, and also serves as a valuable source of reliable information during ‘handover’ at each medical shift change.
  • Aim: The main aim of the watch list is to prevent unplanned ICU admissions and rapid response calls.
  • Principal investigators: Georgina Kennedy (PhD student leading this project), Associate Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan (supervisor), Rose Mary Kennedy (SESLHD).

 

  • Prediction of hypoglycemic events in ICU patients at Wollongong and John Hunters Hospital.
    Aim: The main aim of this tool is to improve existing blood glucose management protcols for ICU patients.
  • Current Status: This project commenced only a couple of months ago.
  • Principal Investigators: Dr Nikhil Kumar (Hunter New England LHD and PhD student leading this project), Associate Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan (supervisor), Dr Michael Davis (Illawara Shoalhaven LHD).

 

  • Platform to help clinicians choose and validate existing predictive tools in their local context.
  • Aim: To support safe, value-driven analytics tools in clinical practice and to increase the efficiency in the process of assessing and evaluating clinical predictive algorithms.
  • Principal Investigators: Associate Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan, Georgina Kennedy (PhD student).

 

  • GRASP Grading and Assessing Predictive tools for clinical decision support.
  • Aim: To provide clinicians and healthcare administrators with an objective, evidence-based approach to support their search and selection of cost-efffective clinical prediction tools. 
  • Principal Investigators: Dr Mohamed Khalifa (PhD student leading this project), Associate Professor Blanca Gallego Luxan (supervisor), Associate Professor Farah Magrabi (Co supervisor).

My Research Supervision

Georgina Kennedy (predicting clinical deterioration during hospitalisation)

Elliott Zhu (estimation of heterogenous treatment effects on survival outcomes)

Dr Mohamed Khalifa (supporting the choice of cost-effective predictive tools for clinical decision support)

Dr Thilo Schuler (data quality and predictive analytics to support decisions in radiation oncology)

Dr Nikhil Kumar (predicting hypoglycemic events in ICU patients)