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Atul Butte to be awarded Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence at the AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium
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AMIA

The American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) will present the 2024 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence to Atul Butte on November 10 during the Opening Session of the AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium in San Francisco.

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Vivek Rudrapatna Selected for Rainin Foundation Early Career Catalyst Award
Source: Rainin Foundation

$1 Million Awarded To Two Early Career Researchers

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Atul Butte Receives AMP's Highest Honor Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics
Source: Association for Molecular Pathology Award

Dr. Butte will receive AMP’s highest honor for his groundbreaking work and noteworthy achievements in advancing molecular diagnostics and computational health sciences. 

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Harnessing EHR data for health research
Source: Nature Medicine

BCHSI affiliated faculty publish - Alice S. Tang, Sarah R. Woldemariam, Silvia Miramontes, Beau Norgeot, Tomiko T. Oskotsky & Marina Sirota

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Not-so-plain sight
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Department of Energy
June 30, 2023

The connection between concepts can be compared with curated biomedical KGs, such as UCSF’s SPOKE. 


 

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New Research Effort to Use Data Driven Approaches to Study Recurrent Pregnancy
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March of Dimes
June 14, 2023

Marina Sirota and Aleksandar Rajkovic co-lead / apply machine learning to mine EMR databases across CA and beyond in search of links between RPL clinical diagnoses and possible environmental risk factors

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Using AI to Predict an Important Measure of Heart Performance
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UCSF
May 26, 2023

Bakar faculty Geoff Tison et al published about the AI algorithm provides novel information about cardiac pumping function (LVEF) from standard coronary angiograms.

JAMA Announces Appointment of Atul Butte to their Editorial Board
JAMA Announces Appointment of Atul Butte to their Editorial Board
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JAMA
April 4, 2023

BCHSI Director Butte will bring decades of experience in data analytics for health care to JAMA.

S.F. composers meld sound with science for new perspective on Alzheimer’s
S.F. composers meld sound with science for new perspective on Alzheimer’s
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CBS News
February 24, 2023

Srikantan Nagarajan, UCSF BCHSI faculty / neuroscientist, provided data to young composers.

UCSF, Stanford researchers predict newborn health outcomes using AI, EHR data
UCSF, Stanford researchers predict newborn health outcomes using AI, EHR data
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Becker's Healthcare
February 16, 2023

Marina Sirota, UCSF BCHSI and Stanford collaborators publish in Science Translational Medicine.

High Honors for Outstanding Science Contributions
High Honors for Outstanding Science Contributions
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UCSF
January 31, 2023

Atul Butte is named 2022 fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Big Little Lives
Source:
UCSF Magazine
January 20, 2023

Bakar faculty Marina Sirota et al microbiome work highlighted in the context of pregnancy outcomes.

Travel time to abortion facilities grew significantly after Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
Travel time to abortion facilities grew significantly after Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
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JAMA
November 1, 2022

Bakar faculty, senior author Yulin Hswen publishes on abortion access post: Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Decision.

Win NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Grant
Win NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Research Grant
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UCSF School of Medicine
October 31, 2022

Bakar faculty Hani Goodarzi receives the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award.

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2 BCHSI Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2022
Source:
UCSF
October 17, 2022

Two Bakar Faculty – Ida Sim and Katie Pollard are among the 3 elected.

Scientists show how EMR may be used to learn more about Alzheimer’s disease
Scientists show how EMR may be used to learn more about Alzheimer’s disease
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NIA NIH
September 22, 2022

The NIA NIH highlighted work by BCHSI faculty lead Alice Tang, Sirota Lab and Information Commons team.