Congratulations to A Jay Holmgren, recipient of the prestigious 2025 AMIA New Investigator award for groundbreaking work on how digital health and information technology shape care for patients, clinicians, and health systems.

CPH AGG members Julian Hong, MD, MS, and Sara Murray, MD, MAS were named 2026 Fellows of the American Medical Informatics Association, in recognition of their work to apply informatics to improve personal and population health, organizational performance, and individual empowerment in healthcare.

Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer, MD, PhD, has been appointed co-Director of UCSF’s newly established Center for Malaria and Vector-Borne Diseases, advancing interdisciplinary research to combat global infectious diseases.

CPH’s Ahmed Alaa and colleagues have received an award from the NIH Director’s office for work on participatory mutimodal AI and editable foundation models to improve dermatological diagnosis and tx.

CPH’s Adam Yala and his UCSF collaborator Maggie Chung, MD have been honored with the UCSF Carroll Innovation award for groundbreaking work on vision language models for cancer risk prediction.

Student Participation: Radhika Bhalerao, CPH PhD student, presenting “Large Language Model Based Identification of Brain MRI Sequences”