I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Lawrence Tabak, longtime principal deputy director of the National Institutes of Health, has abruptly resigned—surprising even his own lab staff and the broader community. scim.ag/419UYXE

It was a quick turnaround, but glad we got this out there for everyone. #AI #healthcare

The abrupt terminations of more than 1,000 employees, including new Epidemic Intelligence Officers, across CDC are deeply disturbing. For more than 70 years, EIS officers have served on America’s front line as its disease detectives, ready at a moment’s notice to respond to

#NIH

Great to have Russ Altman with us at @vumcdbmi for Grand Rounds right now. If you’re having FOMO, that’s understandable and appropriate 😉, but recording to follow.

CCTSI Director Ron Sokol, MD, gave an excellent overview of our many programs and strategic goals at the Annual External Advisory Committee meeting today. It's inspiring hear about the impact our programs have in Colorado communities! Kevin Messacar MD PhD, Thomas Flaig, Peter Embí, MD, MS

CCTSI's Director of Health Informatics, Jayashree Kalpathy, kicked off Day 2 of our Annual External Advisory Committee with an overview of her program's goals and achievements. Thanks to Peter Embí, MD, MS for the discussion on AI integration and training at CU Anschutz Medical Campus. CU Ophthalmology

Check out our National Academy of Medicine Special Publication: Generative Artificial Intelligence in Health and Medicine: Opportunities and Responsibilities for Transformative Innovation, w/ concurrent NEJM pub. #ArtificialInteligence #GenAI nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/28907 nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

The progress generative AI has achieved in health care - Vivek Subbiah, MD National Academy of Medicine Thomas M. Maddox MD Peter Embí, MD, MS Ravi B. Parikh Troy C. Sarich oncodaily.com/science/vivek-… #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #AI #NAM

Congrats to National Academy of Medicine Digital Health and AI Action Collaborative co-chairs Peter Lee and Ken Mandl, and coauthors Thomas M. Maddox MD, Peter Embí, MD, MS, Jen Goldsack, Ravi B. Parikh, and Troy C. Sarich for highlighting current and future AI use cases in healthcare!

Congratulations to my friend and colleague Atul Butte for his induction into the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences ucsf.edu/news/2025/04/4…

🚨New National Academy of Medicine Special Publication: An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for #Health and #Medicine: Essential Guidance for Aligned Action. Read now: nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/29087 #ArtificialIntelligence

Philip R.O. Payne, PhD , Geneieve Melton-Meaux, and Peter Embí's letter on a new Master of Digital Health degree is in JAMA. They argue for evolving existing informatics programs to meet digital health needs. 📚 Read here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… #DigitalHealth #Informatics #JAMA

If you were impacted by Atul Butte personally or professionally, we hope you will take a moment to share a memory and photo at kudoboard.com/boards/OMydGod…. These will be shown at the celebration of life this Saturday ⤵️

🚨 Celebration of life honoring Dr. Atul Butte will be live streamed tomorrow Sat June 21 @ 10a PT - join us at youtu.be/YZgPZcRCtig

Our latest work (led by Victor Borza)on #AI-driven strategies to create representative biomedical research cohorts is live Ellen Wright Clayton Lina Sulieman Murat Kantarcioglu @dbmi nature.com/articles/s4174…

An algorithm's performance can vary across populations, but there are various ways to address this. Yet, which one should you use? Our study (led by Nick Jackson) looks at the impact of oversampling and synthetic data augmentation. #reliable #health #AI pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12…

"Over the coming weeks, U.S. National Science Foundation will unveil a series of major initiatives including new NSF AI Research Institutes to accelerate breakthroughs in the application of AI to health, education, chemistry and materials science." ⤵️ nsf.gov/news/statement…