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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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State of the University Sneak Peek: Meet the Chancellor’s Exciting AI Panel
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UCSF
November 14, 2023

UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood’s State of the University address will explore the emerging frontier of artificial intelligence and its role

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Jaysón Davidson Garners Chancellor Award for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership
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UCSF
October 30, 2023

Demonstrating exceptional leadership of graduate student organization BE-STEM (Black Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).

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Deep learning model for prenatal congenital heart disease (CHD) screening can be applied to retrospective imaging from the community setting, outperforming initial clinical detection in a well-annotated cohort
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Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology Journal
October 27, 2023

Latest publication from BCHSI faculty Rima Arnout's lab

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Spatial cell-type enrichment predicts mouse brain connectivity
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Cell
October 26, 2023

BCHSI faculty Ashish Raj lab publishes in Cell.

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Atul Butte Wins Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics
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AMIA
October 9, 2023

The AMIA Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics acknowledges people who have influenced our thinking about informatics, especially improving health and health care in ways that are visio

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UCSF Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Faculty Awarded $3.93M Team Science Grant to Develop Metabolic Imaging for Evaluating Brain Cancer
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UCSF Radiology
September 25, 2023

Researchers from UCSF’s Dept. of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging were recently awarded a $3.93 million Translational Team Science Award from the Department of Defense

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Editorial: Artificial Intelligence—From Starting Pilots to Scalable Privilege
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JAMA
August 30, 2023

The medical world is now enamored with our newest potential helper, large language models (LLMs) and in particular chatbots, such as ChatGPT, a service offering from OpenAI.

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NEJM AI podcast with Atul Butte: An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove
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NEJM AI
August 30, 2023

In this episode, pioneering informatician Dr.

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Evolution Pt.1: How Our Ancestry Is Revolutionizing Precision Medicine
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Radio Health Journal
August 22, 2023

BCHSI faculty Tony Capra weighs in on this podcast: "Science has come to learn that one treatment plan or medication won’t work the same for every patient.

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2023 AI4ALL Summer Program Concludes
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BCHSI
August 15, 2023

28 talented high school students, most from California, participated in the 2023 virtual UCSF AI4ALL summer program and learned AI applications to Biomedicine with a focus on machine learning appro

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Large Language Models Answer Medical Questions Accurately, but Can’t Match Clinicians’ Knowledge
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JAMANetwork
August 9, 2023

More than half of the Nature article’s 94 references are preprints, Atul Butte, MD, PhD, a professor and institute director for computational health at the University of California, San Fr

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Yulin Hswen appointed associate editor at JAMA, JAMA Network
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Epi Biostats
August 4, 2023

JAMA announced on July 1, 2023, the appointment of Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, as an associate editor in artificial intelligence (AI) and medicine.