Summer reading! CPH and @UCSFDoc_IT Sara Murray and colleagues-- --including Ashley Beecey Bob Wachter Christopher A. Longhurst, MD et al--on the role of the chief AI officer in NEJM AI. buff.ly/3LwJlRO

Using machine learning to improve detection and diagnosis of rare diseases--CPH and UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute faculty Vivek Rudrapatna talks to @wcbs880 on new work and potential for future advances. buff.ly/4cUWq3F

Congratulations to UC San Francisco Atul Butte for receiving the Association for Molecular Pathology Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics Association for Molecular Pathology for groundbreaking work in advancing molecular diagnostics & computational health sciences - its highest honor! amp.org/AMP/assets/Fil…

Congratulations to Atul Butte for winning the 2024 Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics Award from the Association for Molecular Pathology. Association for Molecular Pathology AMPatUCSF

Extremely honored to receive the ASHG (ASHG) Scientific Achievement Award. Can’t thank my lab members, mentors and colleagues enough, who without them none of this would be possible. ashg.org/membership/awa…

Congrats to Nadav Ahituv, PhD, a faculty member in UCSF Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, a joint dept. of the UC San Francisco School of Pharmacy and UCSF School of Medicine, who will receive the 2024 ASHG (ASHG) Scientific Achievement Award, for outstanding contributions to human genetics. tiny.ucsf.edu/lZKsWQ

The story of my life, published as a biographical feature by ASM! A shout-out to Greninger Lab Esther Babady, PhD Carey Nachenberg Kate Rubins Van Nuys Wolves who are mentioned in the article. UC San Francisco UCSF Health UCSF Precision Medicine Chiu laboratory at UCSF journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jc…

Upcoming Event: In one week, catch Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)'s webinar featuring Kaveh Shojania, MD, CoDEx external advisory board member, and Bob Wachter, MD, co-chair of CoDEx's internal advisory board, on #AI and patient safety. Learn more and register here: ihi.org/education/trai…

Excited to be speaking at National Academies Workshop on #insurance & #MCD: Opportunities and Challenges for the Development and Adoption of Multicancer Detection Tests nationalacademies.org/event/42236_10…

Grad Students at UC Berkeley and UCSF interested in the exciting field of Computational Precision Health may want to consider a designated emphasis. Contact us for an information session! #phdstudents #recruiting #gradstudents #computation #healthcare #applytoday

We are thrilled to announce that Atul Butte, MD, PhD (Atul Butte) has received the 2024 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence. lnkd.in/gy5YACpb

Congrats to mekhail anwar, Matt Cooperberg, Michael Evans and Laura Waller on securing up to $15M from ARPA-H for the VISION project! This tiny scanner will detect cancer cells during surgery and remove them in real time. @UCSFPharmacy Berkeley Engineering Berkeley Lab tiny.ucsf.edu/Ex8wVY

Coming up next week in-person Thurs., 9/5, 9am-12pm- not too late to register! UC San Francisco GPU Workshop featuring special guests from NVIDIA. Detailed agenda w/ speakers & panel now up! calendar.ucsf.edu/event/ucsf-gpu…

While some took time off this summer, CPH work went on! @idasim discussed AI ethics on the NEJM podcast, and Reza Abbasi-Asl's work featured in npj Journals. Also, don't forget to sign up for our first CPH seminar of the year with Bin Yu, September 17. buff.ly/4g5VdIs.

Four last days to register! Symposium on 9/9. We have a great lineup of speakers, plenty of time to network and registration is free. genotech.ucsf.edu/home

Very proud to announce that the UC San Francisco Prostate Cancer Program has been awarded a Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant for prostate cancer by the National Cancer Institute. Learn more: ow.ly/KKJV50TeJPW

Institute for Human Genetics Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF Seminar this Thursday ft. Shyam Prabhakar Shyam Prabhakar Lab: Spatial and single cell diversity of cells and humans 9/5. 3-4PM Rock Hall, Room RH-102 humangenetics.ucsf.edu/events

Today - GPU workshop! 9am-12pm at Byers (in person only) Come join us to learn how to compute smarter from the experts at NVIDIA! calendar.ucsf.edu/event/ucsf-gpu…

UCSF AI Seminar Series kicks off this fall w/ "Implementation and Evaluation of AI in Real-World Clinical Settings" Friday, Sept. 13, 12pm - virtual. Ft James Zou Stanford Medicine Register here calendar.ucsf.edu/event/ucsf-ai-… UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics UCSF DoC-IT UC Joint Computational Precision Health Program

Truly grateful to the Kenneth Rainin Foundation for their generosity. We are on a mission to advance artificial intelligence for IBD research and patient care. This award will go a long way towards helping us get there!