Richard D. Wood, Jr Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Thomas A. Reynolds, MFA, MBA, Business Manager, Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, leads the development and growth of the Clinical Outcomes Data Archive (CODA), providing real-time clinical outcomes information to support patient counseling and research. He earned an MBA from Drexel University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He is a co-author on more than 18 peer-reviewed manuscripts.
His poster addresses a practical problem: key clinical information lives in notes, but abstraction is slow and hard to scale. CODA generates analytic datasets by harmonizing extraction with structured abstraction, then validating results. CODA creates condition-specific question-answering tasks from configurable logic, links questions to source text, and supports systematic re-review in an extensible framework. Building on that foundation, his team is extending CODA with AI-assisted abstraction from clinical notes, using off the shelf large language models to answer well-defined questions from source text, then a second pass focused on validation.
CODA currently includes more than 10,000 maternal-fetal dyads cared for in the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at CHOP with more than 52 million validated data points archived. These totals exclude device integrations such as delivery room vitals and ECMO pump data, which CODA has been building toward as part of a broader multimodal roadmap. Tom is the Business Manager for the CHOP Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) Program (2018–present) and is a leader of the Delivery Room of the Future Program (2021–present) where he spearheaded technical development and data integration for the Digital Coach platform, a clinician-facing tool to support coordinated decisions in real-time in the delivery room. He is the first author of a peer-reviewed paper describing CODA in Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy.