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Rachel Dreyer is an Adjunct Professor at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health. Her primary appointment is in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She holds a PhD in Clinical Research/Epidemiology from the University of Adelaide (2013) and a BSc (Honors) in the same field (2007). Currently, she works full-time at Meta (Facebook Reality Labs) focusing on digital health projects while maintaining academic collaborations through her adjunct roles.
Her research focuses on cardiovascular diseases, healthcare disparities, and women's health. Key interests include improving outcomes for heart disease patients, particularly understanding gender-based disparities. She has pioneered work on social determinants of health in acute myocardial infarction survivors and developed risk prediction models for hospital readmissions in young women. Her interdisciplinary approach integrates artificial intelligence, behavioral research, and health informatics.
Dr. Dreyer's recent publications emphasize marital/partner status impacts on health outcomes, disparities in cardiac rehabilitation access, and digital therapeutics for insomnia. She collaborates frequently with prominent researchers like Harlan Krumholz and Erica Spatz. Notable studies include mediation analyses of social support and depression in cardiac patients, and sex differences in symptom presentation and treatment delays in STEMI cases.
Her clinical trial work includes a pragmatic RCT evaluating digital insomnia therapies and a study addressing readmission risk in young AMI patients. She actively engages in translational research bridging academic and industry settings, leveraging large-scale data analytics to address health equity challenges.