About — Henry M. Blair

I study the places where good medicine and delivered medicine come apart. Most of what I work on starts the same way: a guideline says something should happen at a particular moment in a patient's care, and the data says that, at scale, it often doesn't. My current work is in urologic oncology — bone-health monitoring and treatment intensification at the start of androgen-deprivation therapy for prostate cancer — using aggregate real-world data from tens of millions of patients.

I came to medicine through neuroscience. At Emory I spent four years on functional connectivity in autism, examining how the anterior insula couples with the salience and ventral attention networks and whether that atypicality tracked symptom severity; the work became a fifty-page honors thesis. Before that I ran epilepsy experiments in genetically modified mice, studying myeloid cell activation in status epilepticus. Bench and imaging work taught me the discipline of a controlled question. Clinical data taught me how quickly that discipline gets tested when the population is real.

What carried over is a preference for building the pipeline myself. I write the extraction and cleaning code, the query logic, and the analysis rather than receiving a spreadsheet and trusting it — mostly Python and Zsh automation, Selenium scraping, Stata for regression. That habit is why every project on this site is published as a hub rather than a PDF: the derivation from source population to final numerator is visible, each query is written out, and anyone can see exactly where a figure came from. If a number is wrong, I would rather someone be able to find it.

The interesting question is rarely whether a treatment works. It is whether the people who need it are actually getting it, and who is systematically not.

Alongside the research I volunteer at the Brooklyn Free Clinic, mentor incoming first-year students, interview applicants for the college of medicine, and serve as secretary of Downstate's organization for students with disabilities and chronic illness — work that started at Emory, where I founded an education-equity nonprofit and led the campus autism advocacy organization.

Outside the hospital I play jazz trombone, ski, backpack, and swim; I played club lacrosse through college and have gone on summer mission trips with my church since I was fifteen. I am usually happiest a long way from a screen.

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