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Preventing Misdiagnosis with AI
Featured Faculty: Vivek Rudrapatna, MD, PhD
Vivek Rudrapatna discusses use of machine learning to improve diagnosis of acute hepatic porphyria (AHP), a rare condition often un- or misdiagnosed. Listen here!
Source: UCSF
July 19, 2024
Examining the Ethical Issues Raised by Generative AI
Featured Faculty: Ida Sim, MD, PhD
CPH co-director Ida Sim and colleage Christine Cassel on the ethical issues raised by generative AI and how clinicians and researchers might extend the Belmont Principles to address them on the NEJM Podcast.
Source: The New England Journal of Medicine
July 13, 2024
AI Video Based Solutions for Parkinson’s Disease
Featured Faculty: Reza Abbasi-Asl, PhD
Using machine learning and short smartphone videos to assess severity of Parkinson’s Disease symptoms. Reza Abbasi-Asi talks to UCSF News.
Source: UCSF News
July 5, 2024
A Cure for Multiple Sclerosis in Our Lifetime
Featured Faculty: Sergio Baranzini, PhD
Doctors are closer than ever to treating MS before symptoms begin. CPH’s Sergio Baranzini leads an international team that discovers critical clues that could allow scientists to begin developing treatments.
Source: UCSF News
June 12, 2024
Advancing Generative AI Leadership and Collaboration
Featured Faculty: Jennifer Chayes, PhD
CDSS Dean Jennifer Chayes speaks at Joint California Summit on Generative AI.
Source:UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science
May 29, 2024
From Data to Impact
Featured Faculty: Maya Petersen, MD, PhD
CPH co-director Maya Petersen talks to the Other 80 podcast about how to build a future where local public health leaders have the tools and data to ask and answer complex policy decisions in real time.
Source: The Other 80
May 29, 2024
UCSF CPH faculty to Develop AI Monitoring Platform for Clinical Care
Featured Faculty: Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, Sara Murray, MD, MAS
CPH and UCSF Health faculty Julia Adler-Milstein and Sara Murray to lead the Impact Monitoring Platform for AI in Clinical Care (IMPACC), aiming to better analyze AI’s performance in healthcare.
Source: Hea!thcare Innovation
May 29, 2024
Strengthening Open Science Through Shared Wisdom
Featured Staff: Daniel Wolfe
CPH’s Daniel Wolfe talks with the Rockefeller Foundation about participation in their Brain Trust on models to develop, deploy, and sustain open-source health algorithms for the public good.
Source: The Rockefeller Foundation
April 17, 2024
New & Notable
Bakar Fellows Program Spark Award for Personalized Breast Cancer Screening
Featured faculty: Adam Yala, PhD
CPH’s Adam Yala and UCSF radiologist collaborator Maggie Chung honored with Bakar Fellows Program Spark Award for their innovative use of AI, multimodal imaging to improve breast cancer risk detection and screening
Source: Bakar Fellows
May 21, 2024
Apple Machine Learning Research Scholar Award
Featured faculty: Irene Chen, PhD
Congratulations to CPH's Irene Chen, recipient of a scholar award from Apple Machine Learning Research to support her groundbreaking work on machine learning, LLMs, fairness and equity.
Source: Apple
May 2024
Lexin Li named Editor-in-Chief; Annals of Applied Statistics
Featured faculty: Lexin Li, PhD
Congratulations to CPH’s Lexin Li, who has been named Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Applied Statistics for 2025-2027.
Source: Annals of Applied Statistics
May 2024
STAT 2024 Breakthrough Summit West
Featured faculty: Ida Sim, MD, PhD
CPH’s Ida Sim will be a featured speaker at the STAT+ Breakthrough Summit West in San Francisco in May, 2024. Other Summit speakers include leaders from Microsoft Research, NVIDIA, Google DeepMind and more.
Source: STAT
April 2024
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Google Research Scholar Award
Featured faculty: Irene Chen, PhD
CPH's Irene Chen has been honored with a Google Research Scholar Award for her work evaluating and improving clinical risk prediction models for patients with lower access to care.
Source: Google
April 2024
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Upcoming Events
Recent Events
June 26, 2024
UCSF AI Seminar Series: "Generative AI for Healthcare-- A panel discussion
Three research projects at UCSF which use generative AI technologies for advancing patient outcomes and hospital processes.
Panelists: Andrew Auerbach, MD Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, School of Medicine; Lisa Rotenstein, MD, MBA Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, DoC-IT; Lucas Zier, MD, MS Associate Professor, Cardiology, School of Medicine
Moderator: Jean Feng, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics.
View event flyer here. Recording forthcoming.
May 6, 2024
CPH Seminar: "Algorithms, IP, Patents and Trade Secrets: Law and Practice"
Seminar with Allison Schmitt, Director of the Life Sciences Law and Policy Center at UC Berkeley's Center for Law and Technology (BCLT).
Co-sponsored with BCLT and the Berkeley Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation.
Friday, April 26, 2024
CPH's Adam Yala speaks in the University of Virginia Foundations of Biomedical Data Science seminar series on balancing early detection and over screening in breast and lung cancer, including new methods for risk assessment and design of personalized screening policy.
Watch here.
April 24, 2024
Women in Data Science Conference and Datathon Workshop
CPH's Irene Chen and others present at Stanford Lane Medical Library’s Women in Data Science event on AI and health equity.
Recording forthcoming.
April 5, 2024
AI Seminar Series: Shaping the Responsible Adoption of AI in Healthcare
Dr. Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD, spoke on Stanford Healthcare’s adoption of health AI tools, with attention to use, reliability and fairness.
This seminar series is sponsored by UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, UCSF Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation, UCSF-UC Berkeley Computational Precision Health Program, and UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.