Jeff Bailey MD PhD

Jeff Bailey (PI) received his MD and PhD from Case Western Reserve University. His PhD in the laboratory of Dr. Evan Eichler was in genetics examining segmental duplication as part of the Human Genome Project. the extent of which was one of the unexpected findings. During his PhD he moved from a bench top researcher to a computational biologist when bioinformatics was still a new term. While his skills in Perl are no longer useful he still likes to code in Python and R whenever possible. Following his PhD, he completed a year-long postdoc during which he pioneered the key concepts of read depth and paired end orientation as metrics for the detection of copy number variation—helping to determine its extent in the human genome.

He completed his medical training, including a residency at Case Western Reserve University in Clinical Pathology and the City-Wide Fellowship at the American Red Cross Cleveland, Cleveland Clinic, and University Hospitals of Cleveland.

He transitioned to faculty in 2009 as an Assistant Professor in Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he focused his research on malaria and infectious disease genetics and genomics. He was active in overseas research and also led support for sustaining and strengthening public health laboratories in Liberia surrounding the West African Ebola outbreak 2014.

He moved to Brown University where he is currently the Mencoff Family Associate Professor of Translational Research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is a practicing physician at Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals where he provides expertise in blood banking and coagulation and acts as the Associate Director of Coagulation and Transfusion Medicine.

His research is detailed within these web pages but he is driven by the joy of scientific discovery and endeavors to impart that passion to his trainees and collaborations. In addition to mentoring and training at Brown. He has a strong commitment to mentoring researchers and students across the world, particularly in Africa and other resource-constrained settings.

He also enjoys squeezing in cycling and outdoor activities anytime he can - as well as enticing others he works with to do the same.