Peter DeWitt, PhD

Assistant Research Professor, Biomedical Informatics

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Graduate Schools
  • MS, Colorado School Of Mines (2007)
  • MS, Colorado State University (2010)
  • PhD, University of Colorado Denver (2017)
Undergraduate School
  • BS, Colorado School of Mines (CO) (2005)
Languages
English
Department
Biomedical Informatics

Recognitions

  • Alumni Member, Alpha Upsilon Chapter of Delta Omega (2024)
    Founded in 1924, Delta Omega is a national honor society existing to encourage research and scholarship among graduate students of public health and to recognize attainment and achievement in the field of public health. With over 130 active chapters, Delta Omega and its members are dedicated to ensuring the quality of the field of public health and to the protection and advancement of the health of all people.

Publications

  • Mayne G, DeWitt PE, Wen J, Schniedewind B, Dabelea D, Christians U, Hurt KJ. Adiponectin and Glucocorticoids Modulate Risk for Preterm Birth: The Healthy Start Study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2025 Jan 21;110(2):523-533. PubMed PMID: 38980936
  • DeWitt PE, Russell S, Rebull MN, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Bennett TD. phoenix: an R package and Python module for calculating the Phoenix pediatric sepsis score and criteria. JAMIA Open. 2024 Oct;7(3):ooae066. PubMed PMID: 38966078
  • Sanchez-Pinto LN, Bennett TD, DeWitt PE, Russell S, Rebull MN, Martin B, Akech S, Albers DJ, Alpern ER, Balamuth F, Bembea M, Chisti MJ, Evans I, Horvat CM, Jaramillo-Bustamante JC, Kissoon N, Menon K, Scott HF, Weiss SL, Wiens MO, Zimmerman JJ, Argent AC, Sorce LR, Schlapbach LJ, Watson RS, Biban P, Carrol E, Chiotos K, Flauzino De Oliveira C, Hall MW, Inwald D, Ishimine P, Levin M, Lodha R, Nadel S, Nakagawa S, Peters MJ, Randolph AG, Ranjit S, Souza DC, Tissieres P, Wynn JL. Development and Validation of the Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock. JAMA. 2024 Feb 27;331(8):675-686. PubMed PMID: 38245897
  • Schlapbach LJ, Watson RS, Sorce LR, Argent AC, Menon K, Hall MW, Akech S, Albers DJ, Alpern ER, Balamuth F, Bembea M, Biban P, Carrol ED, Chiotos K, Chisti MJ, DeWitt PE, Evans I, Flauzino de Oliveira C, Horvat CM, Inwald D, Ishimine P, Jaramillo-Bustamante JC, Levin M, Lodha R, Martin B, Nadel S, Nakagawa S, Peters MJ, Randolph AG, Ranjit S, Rebull MN, Russell S, Scott HF, de Souza DC, Tissieres P, Weiss SL, Wiens MO, Wynn JL, Kissoon N, Zimmerman JJ, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Bennett TD. International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock. JAMA. 2024 Feb 27;331(8):665-674. PubMed PMID: 38245889
  • DeWitt PE, Rebull MA, Bennett TD. Open source and reproducible and inexpensive infrastructure for data challenges and education. Sci Data. 2024 Jan 2;11(1):8. PubMed PMID: 38167901
  • DeWitt PE, Russell S, Rebull MN, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Bennett TD. phoenix: an R package and Python module for calculating the Phoenix pediatric sepsis score and criteria. JAMIA Open. 2024 Oct;7(3):ooae066. PubMed PMID: 38966078
  • Martin B, DeWitt PE, Russell S, Haendel M, Sanchez-Pinto N, Albers DJ, Jhaveri RR, Moffitt R, Bennett TD. The Recent Increase in Invasive Bacterial Infections: A Report From the National COVID Cohort Collaborative. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2024 Oct 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 39736073
  • Jensen AM, DeWitt P, Bettcher BM, Wrobel J, Kechris K, Ghosh D. Kernel machine tests of association using extrinsic and intrinsic cluster evaluation metrics. PLoS Comput Biol. 2024 Nov;20(11):e1012524. PubMed PMID: 39527632
  • Sanchez-Pinto LN, Bennett TD, DeWitt PE, Russell S, Rebull MN, Martin B, Akech S, Albers DJ, Alpern ER, Balamuth F, Bembea M, Chisti MJ, Evans I, Horvat CM, Jaramillo-Bustamante JC, Kissoon N, Menon K, Scott HF, Weiss SL, Wiens MO, Zimmerman JJ, Argent AC, Sorce LR, Schlapbach LJ, Watson RS, Biban P, Carrol E, Chiotos K, Flauzino De Oliveira C, Hall MW, Inwald D, Ishimine P, Levin M, Lodha R, Nadel S, Nakagawa S, Peters MJ, Randolph AG, Ranjit S, Souza DC, Tissieres P, Wynn JL. Development and Validation of the Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock. JAMA. 2024 Jan 21. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38245897
  • Schlapbach LJ, Watson RS, Sorce LR, Argent AC, Menon K, Hall MW, Akech S, Albers DJ, Alpern ER, Balamuth F, Bembea M, Biban P, Carrol ED, Chiotos K, Chisti MJ, DeWitt PE, Evans I, Flauzino de Oliveira C, Horvat CM, Inwald D, Ishimine P, Jaramillo-Bustamante JC, Levin M, Lodha R, Martin B, Nadel S, Nakagawa S, Peters MJ, Randolph AG, Ranjit S, Rebull MN, Russell S, Scott HF, de Souza DC, Tissieres P, Weiss SL, Wiens MO, Wynn JL, Kissoon N, Zimmerman JJ, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Bennett TD. International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock. JAMA. 2024 Jan 21. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38245889
  • DeWitt PE, Rebull MA, Bennett TD. Open source and reproducible and inexpensive infrastructure for data challenges and education. Sci Data. 2024 Jan 2;11(1):8. PubMed PMID: 38167901
  • Strickland CD, DeWitt PE, Jesse MK, Durst MJ, Korf JA. Radiographic assessment of acute vs chronic vertebral compression fractures. Emerg Radiol. 2023 Feb;30(1):11-18. PubMed PMID: 36271261
  • Sullivan TM, Sippel GJ, Matison EA, Gestrich-Thompson WV, DeWitt PE, Carlisle MA, Oluigbo D, Oluigbo C, Bennett TD, Burd RS. Development and validation of a Bayesian network predicting neurosurgical intervention after injury in children and adolescents. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2023 Jun 1;94(6):839-846. PubMed PMID: 36917100
  • Hill EL, Mehta HB, Sharma S, Mane K, Singh SK, Xie C, Cathey E, Loomba J, Russell S, Spratt H, DeWitt PE, Ammar N, Madlock-Brown C, Brown D, McMurry JA, Chute CG, Haendel MA, Moffitt R, Pfaff ER, Bennett TD. Risk factors associated with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2: an N3C and NIH RECOVER study. BMC Public Health. 2023 Oct 25;23(1):2103. PubMed PMID: 37880596
  • Martin, Blake; DeWitt, Peter; Albers, David; Bennett, Tellen. 687: NOVEL TOOLS FOR PEDIATRIC BLOOD PRESSURE PERCENTILE DETERMINATION. Critical Care Medicine 51(1):p 334, January 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000908480.67296.6c
  • Gabriella B MAYNE, Peter E DeWITT, Brandy RINGHAM, Anna G WARRENER, Uwe CHRISTIANS, Dana DABELEA, K Joseph HURT, A Nested Case-Control Study of Allopregnanolone and Preterm Birth in the Healthy Start Cohort, Journal of the Endocrine Society, Volume 7, Issue 2, February 2023, bvac179, https://doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvac179
  • Elena Casiraghi, Rachel Wong, Margaret Hall, Ben Coleman, Marco Notaro, Michael D. Evans, Jena S. Tronieri, Hannah Blau, Bryan Laraway, Tiffany J. Callahan, Lauren E. Chan, Carolyn T. Bramante, John B. Buse, Richard A. Moffitt, Til Stürmer, Steven G. Johnson, Yu Raymond Shao, Justin Reese, Peter N. Robinson, Alberto Paccanaro, Giorgio Valentini, Jared D. Huling, Kenneth J. Wilkins, A method for comparing multiple imputation techniques: A case study on the U.S. national COVID cohort collaborative, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Volume 139, 2023, 104295, ISSN 1532-0464, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104295.
  • Gabriella Mayne, Peter E DeWitt, Jennifer Wen, Uwe Christians, Dana Dabelea, Jay Schulkin, K Joseph Hurt, FRI406 Maternal Biomarkers Of Adiposity And Stress For Preterm Birth, Journal of the Endocrine Society, Volume 7, Issue Supplement_1, October-November 2023, bvad114.1599, https://doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvad114.1599
  • Sullivan TM, Sippel GJ, Matison EA, Gestrich-Thompson WV, DeWitt PE, Carlisle MA, Oluigbo D, Oluigbo C, Bennett TD, Burd RS. Development and validation of a Bayesian network predicting neurosurgical intervention after injury in children and adolescents. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2023 Jun 1;94(6):839-846. PubMed PMID: 36917100
  • Strickland CD, DeWitt PE, Jesse MK, Durst MJ, Korf JA. Radiographic assessment of acute vs chronic vertebral compression fractures. Emerg Radiol. 2023 Feb;30(1):11-18. PubMed PMID: 36271261
  • Martin B, DeWitt PE, Scott HF, Parker S, Bennett TD. Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Absence of Serious Bacterial Infection at PICU Admission. Hosp Pediatr. 2022 Jun 1;12(6):590-603. PubMed PMID: 35634885
  • Martin B, DeWitt PE, Russell S, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Haendel MA, Moffitt R, Bennett TD. Acute Upper Airway Disease in Children With the Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant of SARS-CoV-2-A Report From the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative. JAMA Pediatr. 2022 Aug 1;176(8):819-821. PubMed PMID: 35426941
  • Raban D, Patel SH, Honce JM, Rubinstein D, DeWitt PE, Timpone VM. Intracranial meningioma surveillance using volumetrics from T2-weighted MRI. J Neuroimaging. 2022 Jan;32(1):134-140. PubMed PMID: 34506680
  • Wakefield B, Diko S, Gilmer R, Connell KA, DeWitt PE, Hurt KJ. Accuracy of obstetric laceration diagnoses in the electronic medical record. Int Urogynecol J. 2021 Jul;32(7):1907-1915. PubMed PMID: 32789812
  • Sottile PD, Albers D, DeWitt PE, Russell S, Stroh JN, Kao DP, Adrian B, Levine ME, Mooney R, Larchick L, Kutner JS, Wynia MK, Glasheen JJ, Bennett TD. Real-time electronic health record mortality prediction during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective cohort study. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021 Oct 12;28(11):2354-2365. PubMed PMID: 33973011
  • Bennett TD, Moffitt RA, Hajagos JG, Amor B, Anand A, Bissell MM, Bradwell KR, Bremer C, Byrd JB, Denham A, DeWitt PE, Gabriel D, Garibaldi BT, Girvin AT, Guinney J, Hill EL, Hong SS, Jimenez H, Kavuluru R, Kostka K, Lehmann HP, Levitt E, Mallipattu SK, Manna A, McMurry JA, Morris M, Muschelli J, Neumann AJ, Palchuk MB, Pfaff ER, Qian Z, Qureshi N, Russell S, Spratt H, Walden A, Williams AE, Wooldridge JT, Yoo YJ, Zhang XT, Zhu RL, Austin CP, Saltz JH, Gersing KR, Haendel MA, Chute CG. Clinical Characterization and Prediction of Clinical Severity of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Adults Using Data From the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Jul 1;4(7):e2116901. PubMed PMID: 34255046
  • Schramm KM, DeWitt PE, Dybul S, Rochon PJ, Patel P, Hieb RA, Rogers RK, Ryu RK, Wolhauer M, Hong K, Trivedi PS. Recent Trends in Clinical Setting and Provider Specialty for Endovascular Peripheral Artery Disease Interventions for the Medicare Population. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2020 Apr;31(4):614-621.e2. PubMed PMID: 32127322
  • Shingina A, DeWitt PE, Dodge JL, Biggins SW, Gralla J, Sprague D, Bambha K. Future Trends in Demand for Liver Transplant: Birth Cohort Effects Among Patients With NASH and HCC. Transplantation. 2019 Jan;103(1):140-148. PubMed PMID: 30451739
  • Feinstein JA, Russell S, DeWitt PE, Feudtner C, Dai D, Bennett TD. R Package for Pediatric Complex Chronic Condition Classification. JAMA Pediatr. 2018 Jun 1;172(6):596-598. PubMed PMID: 29710063
  • Maddux AB, DeWitt PE, Mourani PM, Bennett TD. Hospital Readmissions After Pediatric Trauma. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018 Jan;19(1):e31-e40. PubMed PMID: 29210926
  • Bennett TD, DeWitt PE, Greene TH, Srivastava R, Riva-Cambrin J, Nance ML, Bratton SL, Runyan DK, Dean JM, Keenan HT. Functional Outcome After Intracranial Pressure Monitoring for Children With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. JAMA Pediatr. 2017 Oct 1;171(10):965-971. PubMed PMID: 28846763
  • Bennett TD, DeWitt PE, Dixon RR, Kartchner C, Sierra Y, Ladell D, Srivastava R, Riva-Cambrin J, Kempe A, Runyan DK, Keenan HT, Dean JM. Development and Prospective Validation of Tools to Accurately Identify Neurosurgical and Critical Care Events in Children With Traumatic Brain Injury. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2017 May;18(5):442-451. PubMed PMID: 28252524
  • Bennett KS, DeWitt PE, Harlaar N, Bennett TD. Seizures in Children With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2017 Jan;18(1):54-63. PubMed PMID: 27654815
  • Seibold LK, DeWitt PE, Kroehl ME, Kahook MY. The 24-Hour Effects of Brinzolamide/Brimonidine Fixed Combination and Timolol on Intraocular Pressure and Ocular Perfusion Pressure. J Ocul Pharmacol Ther. 2017 Apr;33(3):161-169. PubMed PMID: 28129020
  • Ruzas CM, DeWitt PE, Bennett KS, Chapman KE, Harlaar N, Bennett TD. EEG Monitoring and Antiepileptic Drugs in Children with Severe TBI. Neurocrit Care. 2017 Apr;26(2):256-266. PubMed PMID: 27873234
  • Schramm KM, DeWitt PE, Dybul S, Patel P, Hieb RA, Wohlauer M, Hong K, Rogers RK, Ryu R, Rochon PJ, Trivedi P. "Trends in Clinical Setting and Provider Specialty for Endovascular Peripheral Artery Disease Interventions for the Medicare population between 2011 and 2017." Journal of Vascular and International Radiology. Forthcoming 2019

Professional Memberships

  • American Statistical Association, Member
  • International Biometrics Society, Western North American Region, Member
Public Speaking
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