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Jejo Koola, MD
La Jolla, CA USA

Dr. Jejo Koola joined UCSD faculty in 2016. He received his MD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina and subsequently completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia in 2011. Following residency, Dr. Koola completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Biomedical Informatics through the Department of Veterans Affairs in conjunction with Vanderbilt University in 2016. Dr. Koola has a joint appointment in Hospital Medicine and Biomedical Informatics. Clinically, he sees a wide variety of hospitalized patients at UCSD on the hospitalist service. His research interests are in using machine learning to build predictive models using big data. He applies models to improving the care of multi-morbid patients, particularly patients with advanced liver disease. He is currently involved in a multi-center study implementing predictive analytics for cirrhosis care at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Additionally, he leads a study diagnosing hepatic encephalopathy via digital phenotyping. Dr. Koola also serves as a medical director within UC San Diego Health Information Systems and the medical director for the UCSD Clinical Informatics Consult Service.