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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'

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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)

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National Multiple Sclerosis Society Awards Dr. Sergio Baranzini the Barancik Prize for Innovation in MS Research
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MS Society
February 2, 2024

Honored for applying Big Data to understand the origins of multiple sclerosis

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Genetic Discovery Reveals Who Can Benefit from Preterm Birth Therapy
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UCSF
January 30, 2024

UCSF researchers call for precision-medicine approach that could identify targets for novel treatments.

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“Scalable Privilege”—How AI Could Turn Data From the Best Medical Systems Into Better Care for All
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JAMA
January 26, 2024

This conversation is part of a series of interviews in which JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, and expert guests explore issues surrounding the rapidly evolving i

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Topic modeling on clinical social work notes for exploring social determinants of health factors
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JAMIA Open
January 23, 2024

Latest publication from Butte lab

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Researchers uncover on/off switch for breast cancer metastasis
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Stanford
December 27, 2023

In collaboration with UCSF's Hani Goodarzi, also an incoming Arc Institute Core Investigator, and Laura Van’t Veer.

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March of Dimes Global Crowdsourcing Effort Yields Pair of Predictive Models for Preterm Birth
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March of Dimes
December 21, 2023

Led by Marina Sirota

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Geoff Tison Receive's NIH Director's New Innovator Award
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Common Fund
December 20, 2023

Project Title: A Physiologically-Focused Approach to Training Multi-Modal

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Berkeley launches Agile Metabolic Health and open platforms initiative
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UCB
December 18, 2023

Agile Metabolic Health aims to revolutionize the patient experience for millions of people with diabetes, catalyzing a new frontier of open-source, data-driven personalized healthcare.

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UCSF Entering 2024 ‘Amazingly Positioned’ to Lead in Health Care AI Revolution
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UCSF
December 14, 2023

It is clear the next year will be a pivotal one for UCSF’s place in the growth and application of artificial intelligence in health care. 

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Capra Labs study links DNA inherited from our extinct cousins to a propensity for being early risers
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Genome Biology and Evolution
December 14, 2023

BCHSI faculty Tony Capra et al study 'Archaic Introgression Shaped Human Circadian Traits' makes waves in NY Times, WSJ, news media

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$4M NIH Grant Will Teach Artificial Intelligence to Spot Cavities
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UCSF
December 6, 2023

Learners and faculty will be trained to conduct clinical research, prepping them to shape the field of dental care as innovations like AI come online.

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Ordering Big Results from a Federation of Biomedical Knowledge Graphs
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Knowledge Graph Conference
November 15, 2023

"Ordering Big Results from a Federation of Biomedical Knowledge Graphs," by Sharat Israni,