🚨 New publication! By K. Barrett, P. Jiradejvong, L. Jacobs & C. Limb They explored what happens in the brain when children engage in real-time musical improvisation—and the findings are fascinating🎵🧠 Read more: tinyurl.com/yf6yfyau #OHNSInnovation #UCSFOHNS

Join Female Founders at UCSF: Panel & Networking! 🚀 Hear from UCSF scientists who’ve launched companies and connect with others exploring entrepreneurship. RSVP: lu.ma/gzmfhfx6 🗓️ 5/21/25, 4-6 pm 📍 521 Parnassus Ave, Rm 101

🚨Publication Alert feat Nicole T. Jiam, MD! New NLP model optimizes triage for head & neck cancer patients by accurately predicting pathology types & appointment urgency, helping reduce delays in care. ⏱️👩‍⚕️ Read more: tinyurl.com/58wh5fur #UCSFInnovation #UCSFOHNS #Innovation

Pearl Doan presented at the Frontiers of Computational Health Conference at Berkeley! This work with Dr. Wai + IIAM dives into how deep learning can triage UCSF head & neck cancer referrals.📊 #UCSFInnovation #UCSFOHNS #Innovation

🚨 New publication from the Jiam Lab! 🚨 "Perfecting Sensory Restoration and the Unmet Need for Personalized Medicine in Cochlear Implant Users: A Narrative Review" is out now in Brain Sciences! Read it here 👉 mdpi.com/2076-3425/15/5… #UCSFInnovation #UCSFOHNS #Innovation

UCSF MS3 Angeline Truong crushed it at COSM AHNS, presenting work on using ML (in collab w/ IIAM) to determine surgical appropriateness of H&N referrals. With UCSF faculty Katherine Wai Patrick Ha, and Nicole T. Jiam, MD on the team! #Innovation #OHNSInnovation #UCSFOHNS

Dr. Nicole T. Jiam, MD, Director of the UCSF Otolaryngology Innovation Center, spoke at #ESPCI2025 on advancing individualized cochlear implant mapping. She shared how novel metrics—like music perception and anatomy-based fitting—drive precision auditory programming. #ESPCI2025

"With a greater focus on individualized care & music-based outcomes, we can work toward a future where [cochlear implant] users experience sound in all its richness," writes @hearinghealthfn on Dr. Nicole T. Jiam, MD's recent study review. bit.ly/44Kg1Ay

.UCSF Otolaryngology | Head and Neck Surgery's Dr. Dylan Chan, co-founder of Jacaranda Biosciences, is turning groundbreaking science into real-world impact with new treatments to prevent hearing loss. Backed by SBIR funding & expert licensing, this project will help change patient lives.👂

Congratulations to Dr. Nicole T. Jiam, MD & the team at @IIAMHealth on receiving a $1.25M National Science Foundation SBIR Phase II award! This funding supports their AI-powered platform designed to optimize patient referral pathways & improve access to specialty care.

🚀 Got a healthcare startup or idea? Join the UCSF NSF I-Corps Training this October (6, 9 & 20)! 🚨Apply by Sept 6 airtable.com/appchtuZSEDR2x…

The UC San Francisco Hearing & Skull Base Summer Picnic, hosted by Dr. Nicole T. Jiam, MD & the @jiamlab, featured members of the multidisciplinary teams involved in the care of patients with skull base & neuro-oncologic disease. What a great summer gathering!

Another great AI/ML Feedback Collective meet-up! 🚀💡 We dove into AI in med ed, referrals, hearing aids, ethics, compute power & funding futures! Love seeing this community grow & push the future of healthcare forward! #AI #Innovation #OHNSInnovation #UCSFOHNS

Dr. Karen Chan Barrett won the Carroll Award for Innovation! This will fund the use of #AI to enhance preferred voices in noisy environments for cochlear implant users. Congrats to Dr. Barrett & her team, Drs. Nicole T. Jiam, MD, Patpong Jiradejvong, Max Jiam & Guy Kawasaki.

We had a great second meet-up of the AI/ML Feedback Collective! Drs. Song Cheng, Tokunbo Ayeni, Connie Chang-Chien, Pearl Doan, Max Jiam, Hana Kang, Andrea Hasenstaub & Nicole T. Jiam, MD discussed the ethics of #AI applications & #AI in medical education.

Dr. Nicole T. Jiam, MD participated in the very first Cochlear Nucleus Nexa implantation at our Bayfront location! These are the world's smallest & lightest sound processors with additional syncing capabilities. We're pleased to expand the options we can offer our patients.

Dr. Nicole T. Jiam, MD was recently invited to deliver #GrandRounds at Washington University in St. Louis! Her talk presented new approaches to evaluating cochlear implant outcomes beyond traditional speech measures. Well done! 👏

Round 3 of our AI/ML Feedback Collective was a hit! 🚀 Big thanks to all the brilliant builders, thinkers, and machine learners who joined us to share ideas and spark innovation at the intersection of AI + healthcare. Until next time!

🎭 Can improv make better surgeons? We’re launching a pilot study to find out! Nicole T. Jiam, MD Stephanie Younan

Dr. Karen Barrett Chan was invited by Chancellor Sam Hawgood to a UC San Francisco House reception honoring 2023–2025 award recipients. She received the 2023 Society for Neuroscience of Creativity Young Investigator Award and invited Dr. Nicole T. Jiam, MD to join her for the celebration! 👏