Hi, I'm

Dr. Christian Gulden

I'm good with computers.

I am a technical consultant and software engineer with a particular interest in cloud-native technologies and their application in medical informatics to provide real-world advantages.

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About Me

I am a computer scientist with a passion for software engineering. Especially distributed systems and healthcare IT.

I am currently working as a Post-Doc at the chair of Medical Informatics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and as a freelance technical consultant for Akedis Innovations.

Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:
  • C# 1,2
  • Blazor 3
  • ASP.NET 4
  • Java
  • Spring Boot 5,6
  • JavaScript
  • VueJS 7,8
  • Python 9
  • Delta Lake
  • Polars
  • Kubernetes 10
  • Helm 11
  • Apache Kafka 12

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Projects

recruIT
Kubernetes FHIR JavaScript Java Spring Boot VueJS OMOP CDM
recruIT
An open-source, cloud-native clinical trial recruitment support system to assist with the recruitment of patients for clinical trials. Based on HL7 FHIR® and the OMOP CDM.
Docs
Kube Powertools
Kubernetes Container Helm
Kube Powertools
An always up to date collection of useful tools and scripts for your Kubernetes linting and auditing needs.
magniFHIR
FHIR Blazor C#
magniFHIR
A basic Patient resource browser to provide visibility into your FHIR servers.

Publications

recruIT: A cloud-native clinical trial recruitment support system based on Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (HL7 FHIR) and the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership Common Data Model (OMOP CDM)
Gulden C, Macho P, Reinecke I, Strantz C, Prokosch HU, Blasini R. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 2024;174:108411. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108411
Effectiveness of IT-supported patient recruitment: study protocol for an interrupted time series study at ten German university hospitals
Boeker M, Zöller D, Blasini R, Macho P, Helfer S, Behrens M, Prokosch HU, Gulden C. Trials 25, 125 (2024). doi: 10.1186/s13063-024-07918-z
Evaluation of Eligibility Criteria Relevance for the Purpose of IT-Supported Trial Recruitment: Descriptive Quantitative Analysis
Blasini R, Strantz C, Gulden C, Helfer S, Lidke J, Prokosch HU, Sohrabi K, Schneider H. JMIR Form Res. 2024 Jan 31;8:e49347. doi: 10.2196/49347. PMID: 38294862.
DQAgui: a graphical user interface for the MIRACUM data quality assessment tool.
Mang JM, Seuchter SA, Gulden C, Schild S, Kraska D, Prokosch HU, Kapsner LA. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2022 Aug 11;22(1):213. doi: 10.1186/s12911-022-01961-z. PMID: 35953813; PMCID: PMC9367129.
Patient Recruitment System for Clinical Trials: Mixed Methods Study About Requirements at Ten University Hospitals
Fitzer K, Haeuslschmid R, Blasini R, Altun FB, Hampf C, Freiesleben S, Macho P, Prokosch HU, Gulden C. JMIR Med Inform. 2022 Apr 20;10(4):e28696. doi: 10.2196/28696. PMID: 35442203; PMCID: PMC9069280.
AHD2FHIR: A Tool for Mapping of Natural Language Annotations to Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources - A Technical Case Report
Scheible R, Caliskan D, Fischer P, Thomczyk F, Zabka S, Schneider H, Boeker M, Schulz S, Prokosch HU, Gulden C. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 Jun 6;290:32-36. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220026. PMID: 35672965.
Availability of Structured Data Elements in Electronic Health Records for Supporting Patient Recruitment in Clinical Trials
Vass A, Reinecke I, Boeker M, Prokosch HU, Gulden C. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2022 Jun 6;290:130-134. doi: 10.3233/SHTI220046. PMID: 35672985.
A Framework for Criteria-Based Selection and Processing of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Data for Statistical Analysis: Design and Implementation Study
Gruendner J, Gulden C, Kampf M, Mate S, Prokosch H, Zierk J. JMIR Med Inform 2021;9(4):e25645. DOI: 10.2196/25645. PMID: 33792554
Reduced Rate of Inpatient Hospital Admissions in 18 German University Hospitals During the COVID-19 Lockdown
Kapsner LA, Kampf MO, Seuchter SA, Gruendner J, Gulden C, Mate S, Mang JM, Schüttler C, Deppenwiese N, Krause L, Zöller D, Balig J, Fuchs T, Fischer P, Haverkamp C, Holderried M, Mayer G, Stenzhorn H, Stolnicu A, Storck M, Storf H, Zohner J, Kohlbacher O, Strzelczyk A, Schüttler J, Acker T, Boeker M, Kaisers UX, Kestler HA, Prokosch HU on behalf of our MII-Research Group. Front Public Health 8:594117. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.594117. PMID: 33520914
Prototypical Clinical Trial Registry Based on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR): Design and Implementation Study
Gulden C, Blasini R, Nassirian A, Stein A, Altun F, Kirchner M, Prokosch H, Boeker M. JMIR Med Inform 2021;9(1):e20470. DOI: 10.2196/20470. PMID: 33433393
Design for a Modular Clinical Trial Recruitment Support System Based on FHIR and OMOP
Reinecke I, Gulden C, Kümmel M, Nassirian A, Blasini R, Sedlmayr M. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2020;270:158-162. DOI: 10.3233/SHTI200142. PMID: 32570366
Data Model Requirements for a Digital Cognitive Aid for Anesthesia to Support Intraoperative Crisis Management
Schild S, Gruendner J, Gulden C, Prokosch HU, St Pierre M, Sedlmayr M. Appl Clin Inform. 2020;11(1):190-199. DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1703015. PMID: 32162289
KETOS: Clinical Decision Support and Machine Learning as a Service - A Training and Deployment Platform based on Docker, OMOP-CDM, and FHIR Web Services
Gruendner J, Schwachhofer T, Sippl P, Wolf N, Erpenbeck M, Gulden C, Kapsner LA, Zierk J, Mate S, Stürzl M, Croner R, Prokosch HU, Toddenroth D. PLoS One. 2019;14(10):e0223010. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223010. PMID: 31581246
Extractive Summarization of Clinical Trial Descriptions
Gulden C, Kirchner M, Schüttler C, Hinderer M, Kampf M, Prokosch HU, Toddenroth D. Int J Med Inform. 2019;129:114-121. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.05.019. PMID: 31445245
Extraction and Prevalence of Structured Data Elements in Free-Text Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria
Gulden C, Landerer I, Nassirian A, Altun FB, Andrae J. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;258:226-230. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-959-1-226. PMID: 30942751
Design and Implementation of a Single Source Multipurpose Hospital-Wide Clinical Trial Registry
Sommer M, Kirchner M, Gulden C, Egloffstein S, Lux MP, Beckmann MW, Mackensen A, Prokosch HU. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019;258:164-168. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-959-1-164 PMID: 30942738
Strome: Energy-Aware Data-Stream Processing
Eibel C, Gulden C, Schröder-Preikschat W & Distler T. (2018, June). In IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (pp. 40-57). Springer, Cham.
Investigating the Capabilities of FHIR Search for Clinical Trial Phenotyping
Gulden C, Mate S, Prokosch HU, Kraus S. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2018;253:3-7. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-896-9-3. PMID: 30147028
Engineering sustainable software: A case study from offline computer support collaborative annotation system
CheeWyai L, Cheah W, Chowdhury AK and Gulden C, 2015 9th Malaysian Software Engineering Conference (MySEC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2015, pp. 272-277, DOI: 10.1109/MySEC.2015.7475232.

Education

2017 - 2022
PhD in Medical Informatics
Chair of Medical Informatics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Grade: summa cum laude
2014 - 2017
Master of Science in Computer Science
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Grade: 1.2 - passed with distinction
2011 - 2014
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Grade: 2.0