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Four Ways AI is Poised to Transform Medicine
Featured Faculty: Reza Abbasi-Asl; Geoff Tison
UCSF News overviews four ways AI and machine learning, paired with medical imagining in research and education, are solving some of the thorniest challenges in medicine.
Source: UCSF News
January 9, 2025
Use and Evaluation of AI and Predictive Models in US Hospitals
Featured Faculty: Julia Adler-Milstein, A. Jay Holmgren
Julia Adler-Milstein, A. Jay Holmgren and colleagues analyze data on how, or if, hospitals evaluate their predictive algorithms and AI tools on data from their own systems, or for bias.
Source: Health Affairs
January 6, 2025
How Insurance Companies use AI to Deny Claims
Featured Faculty: Ziad Obermeyer
Ziad Obermeyer speaks with WBUR on AI use by health insurance companies, and and missed opportunities to share data and use AI tools to benefit patients and health systems.
Source: WBUR
December 18, 2024
Ida Sim: A healthcare pioneer transforming how data works for patients
Featured Faculty: Ida Sim
Ida Sim has focused her career on making health data more open and shareable. As CPH co Director she is dedicated to training the next generation of leaders to harness the power of AI to develop personalized, precise, equitable solutions for health.
Source: CDSS News
December 4, 2024
New Program Trains Data Scientist Who Are Transforming Medicine
Featured Faculty: Ida Sim, Adam Yala, Alex Schubert (student), Daniel Wolfe
UCSF News profiles the CPH program, talking to faculty, students and staff about leading a world-class PhD program and a center with transformative real-world impact.
Source: UCSF
October 8, 2024
Enhancing MRI with AI to Improve Diagnosis Brain Disorders
Featured Faculty: Reza Abbasi-Asl, Pratik Mukherjee
Reza Abbasi-Asl, Pratik Mukherjee and colleagues discuss recent research showing AI system improvement of visualization and identification of brain abnormalities captured by MRIs in Traumatic Brain Injury.
Source: UCSF
October 7, 2024
New & Notable
AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity
Featured Faculty: Stuart Russell
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence has awarded Stuart J. Russell their annual award for work benefiting humanity, honoring his scholarship on the conceptual and theoretical foundations of provably beneficial AI and his leadership in creating the field of AI safety.
February 2025
Ida Sim awarded 2025 PMWC Luminary Award
Featured Faculty: Stuart Russell
Ida Sim has been awarded a 2025 Precision Medicine World Conference Luminary award, for accelerating precision medicine into the clinic.
February 2025
Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence awarded to Atul Butte
Featured Faculty: Atul Butte
Atul Butte wins the American College of Medical Informatics’ Morris F. Colleen Award of Excellence for “unwavering dedication, super-human execution, and a strong commitment to improving patient care.”
November 2024
American College of Medical Informatics Induction
Featured Faculty: Marina Sirota
Marina Sirota is inducted as a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics at the 2024 AMIA annual symposium.
November 2024
2024 Hellman Fellowship
Featured Faculty: Ahmed Alaa
Ahmed Alaa has received a Hellman Foundation award for groundbreaking research on “Understanding the Cardioproductive Role of GLP-1 Therapies using Causal Deep Learning.”
November 2024
Upcoming Events
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Thursday, February 20, 2024, 12-1pm via Zoom
CPH Seminar: Emma Pierson, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley “Using LLMs to Improve Equity in Healthcare and Public Health.”
Recent Events
November 21, 2024
CPH 290 Seminar: Serina Chang, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley “Inferring and Simulating Human Behavior for Public Health”
Seminar recording forthcoming.
November 14, 2024
CPH 290 Seminar: Kajsa Kvist, Scientific Vice President, Novo Nordisk “Novo Nordisk R&D and the use of AI”
Seminar recording forthcoming.
November 7, 2024
CPH 290 Seminar: Luke Sagers, Keko Wemmer; Dandelion Health
“AI-Based Innovation in Healthcare and Life Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities”
Seminar recording forthcoming.
October 31, 2024
CPH 290 Seminar: Dr. Pranav Rajpurkar, Assistant Professor, Harvard University “Human-AI Interaction in Radiology”
Seminar recording forthcoming.
October 24, 2024
CPH 290 Seminar: Dr. Jonathan Kolstad, Professor, UC Berkeley
“Thinking Versus Doing: Cognitive Capacity, Decision Making and Medical Diagnosis”
Seminar recording forthcoming.
October 17, 2024
CPH 290 Seminar: Dr. Julia Adler-Milstein, Professor, UCSF
“Digital Transformation and Healthcare Innovation at UCSF”
Seminar recording forthcoming.
October 10, 2024
CPH 290 Seminar: Zachary Ziegler, CTO OpenEvidence
“OpenEvidence and the Real-World Power of AI: Moving Beyond the Buzz in Healthcare”
Watch the seminar on the CPH Youtube page here.
