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Atul Butte 10 Years at UCSF
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Celebrating BCHSI's Inaugural Director Atul Butte - the Institute's 10 Year Anniversary!
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UCSH BCHSI

Time flies! We are excited to announce that 2025 marks the year Atul Butte joined UCSF as faculty to lead the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute (BCHSI). Butte's contributions to the field of Precision Medicine, Computational Health, Data and Innovation extend beyond UCSF. A few years later, Butte became the first Chief Data Scientist for the University of California Health System (includes all five UC medical campuses).

BCHSI is an academic home for faculty, students, post-doctoral scholars, and staff at the University who employ computational methodologies and AI to address topics in health and wellness. BCHSI is home to 89 faculty representing each of the 4 schools at UCSF – Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry and Pharmacy. 

In collaboration with several key groups on campus, the BCHSI Research Computing team has developed a cutting-edge research platform – the UCSF Information Commons – that provides unparalleled access to all de-identified clinical data for exploratory and hypothesis-formation purposes without the need for an Institutional Review Board protocol. The Information Commons with over 500 users, has resulted in over 100 scientific publications and enabled numerous Real World Evidence projects in partnership with industry and academia. 

Thank you Dr. Butte for your incredible leadership and vision – you are an inspiration!

Matrix inversion and subset selection (MISS)
Searching for the cellular underpinnings of the selective vulnerability to tauopathic insults in Alzheimer’s disease
Source: Nature Communications Biology

Justin Torok, Pedro Maia, Anand Chaitaili and Ashish Raj recent publish in Nature Communication Biology.

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Exposure to autoimmune disorders is associated w/ increased Alzheimer’s disease risk in a multi-site EHR analysis
Source: Cell Reports

Latest publication in Cell by Grace Ramey, Marina Sirota, Alice Tang, et al. (Also related article…

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4 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Poised to Transform Medicine
Source: UCSF

Work featuring BCHSI affiliated faculty Reza Abbasi-Asl and Geoff Tison.

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Ushizima develops image recognition algorithms to diagnose COVID-19
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BERKELEY LAB COMPUTING SCIENCES
June 1, 2020

Dani Ushizima explores algorithms and a data analysis pipeline to help accurately distinguish COVID-19 abnormalities in CT scans and chest X-rays.

BCHSI Faculty Named on Forbes' 30 under 30
BCHSI Faculty Named on Forbes' 30 under 30
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UCSF
December 10, 2019

Vijay Ramani has been named to Forbes magazine’s annual 30 Under 30 list of rising stars in healthcare.

Unprecedented Partnership to Advance Data in Biomedicine
Unprecedented Partnership to Advance Data in Biomedicine
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UCSF Precision Medicine
November 7, 2019

Sergio Baranzini and Sharat Israni will lead the NSF award & collaborate with Google, Lawrence Livermore Library, and Institute Systems for Biology.

Julia Adler-Milstein Elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2019
Julia Adler-Milstein Elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2019
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UCSF
October 21, 2019

Four UCSF faculty members are among the 100 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine this year, including BCHSI affiliate faculty Julia Adler-Milstein.

Brain Maps Allow Individualized Predictions of FTD Progression
Brain Maps Allow Individualized Predictions of FTD Progression
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UCSF
October 14, 2019

Seeley and colleagues used maps of brain connections to predict how brain atrophy would spread in individual patients with frontotemporal dementia.

UCSF Launches Artificial Intelligence Center to Advance Medical Imaging
UCSF Launches Artificial Intelligence Center to Advance Medical Imaging
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UCSF
October 11, 2019

Majumdar will run the Center for Intelligent Imaging's operations to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to radiology.

FDA approves Artificial Intelligence Algorithm That Reads Chest X-Rays
FDA approves Artificial Intelligence Algorithm That Reads Chest X-Rays
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UCSF
September 12, 2019

Callcut led the product development of the new AI screening tool, known as Critical Care Suite, which is being licensed by UCSF Innovation Venture to GE Healthcare.

Genetic Test Found a Life-Saving Therapy for an Infant's Rare Cancer
Genetic Test Found a Life-Saving Therapy for an Infant's Rare Cancer
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UCSF
September 11, 2019

Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, explains how the UCSF500 test can identify inherited predispositions to cancer and help patients design prevention and surveillance strategies.

Mobile Devices and Health
Mobile Devices and Health
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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
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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
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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