Delighted to share ✨Med-Gemini✨ - our new family of multimodal models for medicine unlocking new possibilities for health - arxiv.org/pdf/2404.18416

More accurate multimodal conversations about medical images🩻, surgical videos📽️, genomics🧬, ultra-long health records📚, ECGs🫀…

Excited to announce I'm writing a sequel to 'Digital Doctor,' on Healthcare-Meets-AI Portfolio Books! Exploring genAI in medicine – from tech to ethics, politics to patient care, & the changing role of patients & MDs.
Suggestions for a title? #HealthcareAI amazon.com/Digital-Doctor…

Thursday’s Grand Rounds with Julia Adler-Milstein Andrew Auerbach Gurpreet Dhaliwal on fundamental issues in diagnosis, seen through the specialized lenses of research, informatics, and education, is now available on our YouTube channel.
Lekshmi Santhosh, MD MAEd Bob Wachter
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1/ Starting NOW - Stellar #UCSFMGR panel of Drs. Gurpreet Dhaliwal Andrew Auerbach Julia Adler-Milstein discussing Diagnosis: Teaching, Measuring, Innovating - you don't want to miss this! Come to N-217 or on Zoom, pearls to follow here.

Superb and infuriating piece by UC San Francisco colleague (& great writer) Louise Aronson about how her mom's clear, documented wish to avoid aggressive care at the end of life was ignored by a medical team locked into a we-did-this-so-we-must-do-that spiral. NEJM nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Thursday’s Grand Rounds with Kirsten Johansen about the Devastating Effect of Covid-19 on Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease is now available on our YouTube channel.
Lekshmi Santhosh, MD MAEd Bob Wachter

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WOWed by UCSF IM Chiefs presenting amazing research at Rector Symposium🎊 Super✨s here: Adrienne Strait on procedural edu, Kiera Bulluck & Zoë Lyon, MD PH rsrch, Melinda Song 🫀research & Claire Greene on OUD 👏🏾🎉! Bob Wachter Rebecca Berman Not pictured: my rowdy/patient 4yo!

A joy talking AI & healthcare on the GeriPal - A Geriatrics & Palliative Care Podcast podcast w/ Alex Smith, MD & Eric Widera, MD. On top of discussions re: will AI replace MDs and on deskilling, you'll hear me sing/play a song (at start) and demo GPT-4 telling a young parent she has cancer (@ 19:00)
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Immune Effector Cell Therapy in Hematologic Malignancies: Lessons Learned with Ajai Chari and Babis Andreadis, MD, MSCE at last week’s Grand Rounds. Recording now posted on YouTube.
Lekshmi Santhosh, MD MAEd Bob Wachter
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Viewpoint by Julia Adler-Milstein, Department of Medicine University of Toronto Donald Redelmeier, Bob Wachter examines the potential problems of clinician reliance on the use of AI in health care and offers suggestions on how AI could be designed to promote clinician vigilance.
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On the occasion of the show's finale, this appreciation of Larry David and Curb Your Enthusiasm by Wesley Morris The New York Times is beautifully written and wildly insightful – it portrays LD as 'Emily Post with boxing gloves.' Worth the long read. Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry David Latest News nytimes.com/2024/04/05/mag…

Was great being a part of the ONC 20 year history with all the prior national coordinators

Micky Tripathi cracked up the room when he commented that you could superimpose the Gartner hype cycle on this picture

A negative randomized trial of Paxlovid (vs placebo) for low risk (mean age 42 yrs), mild-to-moderate symptomatic Covid, outpatients
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I just appeared on Alec Baldwin’s podcast (yes, that guy!) describing the state of the diabetes epidemic and root causes of its inequities. Check it out! iheart.com/podcast/1119-h…

One of the best nights of the year UC San Francisco Dept of Medicine: music by our residents (and a few faculty) at my house. After a 4 year Covid hiatus, it's back.
Pics: Brenton Davis, Lillian Peng, Audrey A. Tran. Video: the amazing Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd (me on piano; barking by Newman). So fun.

Monday, I spoke at the Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation Symposium on the future of AI tools in healthcare, a very important topic of conversation as technology evolves. A couple of weeks ago, I posted a blog about the challenges of AI and harnessing its potential. Here’s…

Already been 9 years working with our super teams at UC San Francisco UC San Francisco_BCHSI and across University of California Health… no fooling!

This is an absolutely exceptional group of physicians, teachers, and role models. So lucky to have them on our UC San Francisco UC San FranciscoDOM team!