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When It Comes to Emergency Care, ChatGPT Overprescribes
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UCSF

Authors Chris Williams, Brenda Miao, Aaron Kornblith, and Atul Butte publish in Nature Communications.

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BCHSI Honors and Presentations at 2024 AMIA Annual Symposium
Source: BCHSI

We are excited to share that several Bakar affiliated faculty, postdocs and staff will be presenting at AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium in November. We are also proud to announce that several of our…

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Alice Tang Awarded First Prize for AMIA 2024 Edward H. Shortliffe Doctoral Dissertation
Source: AMIA

For her work on 'Leveraging Clinical Data and Knowledge Networks to Derive Insights Into Alzheimer's Disease'

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
Two Bakar Faculty Inducted into American College of Medical Informatics
Source: AMIA

Marina Sirota, PhD, (Bakar Acting Director) and Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH, (Affiliated Faculty)

ICHS Faculty, Steven Altshculer & Lani Wu, are developing new methods for drug discovery
ICHS Faculty, Steven Altshculer & Lani Wu, are developing new methods for drug discovery
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UCSF
January 4, 2017

Read more about how these long-time collaborators are using computational strategies to rapidly screen libraries of compounds for new therapeutic drugs

ICHS Faculty, Michael Fischbach, recognized by NIH & HHMI
Bakar Faculty, Michael Fischbach, recognized by NIH & HHMI
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Bakar Institute
October 6, 2016

Michael’s innovative work on the human microbiome has earned him acknowledgement as an HHMI Faculty Scholar, and recipient of 2016 NIH Director’s Pioneer Award.

ICHS & UCSF Library team up to sponsor Software Carpentry workshops
ICHS & UCSF Library team up to sponsor Software Carpentry workshops
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ICHS
September 14, 2016

ICHS teamed up with the UCSF Library Data Science Initiative to offer a series of Software Carpentry workshops on campus.

ICHS Faculty Co-Leads Groundbreaking Work in Developing Safer Pain Management Drugs
ICHS Faculty Co-Leads Groundbreaking Work in Developing Safer Pain Management Drugs
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UCSF
August 17, 2016

Learn more about Brian Shoichet’s efforts to engineer a new kind of painkiller.

ICHS and UC Library Provide Programming Workshops
ICHS and UC Library Provide Programming Workshops
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UCSF LIBRARY
August 5, 2016

Students grab opportunity to start with R, Python, Unix commands, and Git and GitHub.

White House, Gates Foundation Summit Explores Applying Precision Medicine to Public Health
White House, Gates Foundation Summit Explores Applying Precision Medicine to Public Health
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UCSF
June 16, 2016

Key forum on the first 1000 days of life, especially for the underserved. Follow-up actions are being planned.

Chancellor Hawgood meets Lawmakers on Precision Medicine
Chancellor Hawgood meets Lawmakers on Precision Medicine
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UCSF
March 21, 2016

UC San Francisco Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, took the first official trip of his administration to Washington, D.C. last week.

Video presentation of Atul Butte
Driving Public Health with a Trillion Points of Data
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MILKEN INSTITUTE
March 2, 2016

Atul Butte explains his vision at the Milken Institute.