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Chancellor Celebrates UCSF’s ‘Momentum’ in 2024 State of the University Address
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UCSF

The past decade at UCSF has been propelled by innovation and technology, Hawgood said, highlighting the work being done by BCHSI steered by Atul Butte. Jaysón Davidson (Butte Lab) was also featured in the Future of UCSF.

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Podcast: Could AI Identify Alzheimer’s Risk Factors from Electronic Health Records?
Source: Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

Marina Sirota and Alice Tang join the podcast to share their research on how AI could be used to predict one’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease based on their electronic health records.

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Native American Heritage Month and Transgender Day of Remembrance
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Electronic Health Record Documentation Burden Crowds Out Health Information Exchange Use By Primary Care Physicians
Source: Health Affairs

A. Jay Holmgren, Julia Adler-Milstein, et al - Documentation burden crowds out other high-value EHR tasks, in this case viewing outside records via health information exchange

Mobile Devices and Health
Mobile Devices and Health
Source:
NEJM
September 5, 2019

UCSF, Cornell Tech, Sage Bionetworks, Open mHealth and The Commons Project are collaborating to integrate EHR data to Android smartphones.

AI For All — Data-Driven Summer Program Energizes a New Generation
AI For All — Data-Driven Summer Program Energizes a New Generation
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UCSF Precision Medicine
August 14, 2019

BCHSI faculty Marina Sirota led the first cohort of the AI4All program, focused on promoting greater diversity and inclusion in the field of AI in biomedicine.

Alzheimer’s Disease Destroys Neurons that Keep Us Awake
Alzheimer’s Disease Destroys Neurons that Keep Us Awake
Source:
UCSF
August 12, 2019

Study suggests tau tangles, not amyloid plaques, drive daytime napping that precedes dementia.

University of California announces data science collaboration with Janssen
University of California announces data science collaboration with Janssen
Source:
University of California
June 28, 2019

New fellowship program from UCSF’s BCHSI, UC Berkeley’s BIDS, and Janssen Research & Development to recruit data scientists for innovative, high-impact, data-driven healthcare research

New Collaboration To Advance Patient Safety In The Digital Era
New Collaboration To Advance Patient Safety In The Digital Era
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CISION PR Newswire
May 7, 2019

Julia Adler-Milstein will lead the new partnership between UCSF and The Doctor's Company to make substantive advances in patient safety and digital health.

Rima Arnaout's work featured at GTC 2019
Rima Arnaout's work featured at GTC 2019
Source:
NVIDIA
March 27, 2019

NVIDIA features Arnaout's work using deep learning to analyze medical images in cardiology

Atul Butte Inducted Into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Atul Butte Inducted Into American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Source:
UCSF Precision Medicine
March 25, 2019

BCHSI's Director has been inducted into the College of Fellows of the AIMBE in recognition of his contributions to creating a precision medicine roadmap with open access data

Big Data Gives a Boost to Immunology Research and Potentially, Treatments
Big Data Gives a Boost to Immunology Research and Potentially, Treatments
Source:
KQED
October 25, 2018

Atul Butte helps to explain the potential of the 10,000 Immunomes Project

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
Julia Adler-Milstein receives award from AMIA
Source:
Bakar Institute
October 15, 2018

Bakar Institute faculty member is honored by the American Medical Informatics Association.

Ted Goldstein talks cancer at TEDx
Ted Goldstein talks cancer at TEDx
Source:
TEDx
October 9, 2018

Ted explains how researchers are using data to target precision treatments for cancer

Michael Keiser authors a cover piece for ACS Chemical Biology
Michael Keiser authors a cover piece for ACS Chemical Biology
Source:
ACS Chem Biol
October 9, 2018

Keiser's "In Focus" piece advocates for stronger experimental controls in research featuring machine learning methods 

Several Bakar Institute faculty among the selected CZ Biohub Intercampus Research Programs
Several Bakar Institute faculty among the selected CZ Biohub Intercampus Research Programs
Source:
UCSF
September 26, 2018

Rima Arnaout, Atul Butte, Katie Pollard, and Jimmie Ye represent the Bakar Institute Faculty who are part of these extraordinary newly-awarded programs