Adam Yala, PhD, featured in this month’s podcast episode of the Data Science Education Podcast by UC Berkeley Data Science Undergraduate Studies, shares how AI is reshaping the future of healthcare and why computational health is emerging as its own distinct field.
Mark van der Laan Receives the Inaugural Tze Leung Lai Memorial Lecture Award
CPH AGG Member, Mark van der Laan has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Tze Leung Lai Memorial Lecture Award. This award recognizes van der Laan’s exceptional and significant contributions to the theory, application, and best practice of statistics in biomedical science.
A Systemwide Algorithmic Approach to Adjust Treatment for Individual Factors and Special Populations
Sunny Kishore, MD, PhD, MSc, featured in EurekAlert by AAAS, shares results from the team’s recent study, implementing the UC Way Hypertension Medication Algorithm, which improved blood pressure control from 68.5% to nearly 74% among 90,000 patients.
Integrating Human Interaction and Human Values into AI Development
Serina Chang, PhD, provided this month’s BAIR seminar covering her work on integrating human interaction and human values into AI development.
Sustainable East Africa Research in Community Health (SEARCH) Reduces New HIV Infections
Maya Petersen, MD, PhD, Co-Primary Investigator, and Laura Balzer, PhD, featured in Science.org, highlight latest results from a trial involving more than 160,000 people across 16 communities, testing the SEARCH Community Precision Health approach reducing new HIV infections by 70% in rural Kenya and Uganda.
Sunny Kishore, MD, PhD, MSc
Sandeep Kishore Named Senior Physician Advisor for Population Health
Sandeep Kishore, MD, PhD, MSc, was named Senior Physician Advisor for Population Health with the UC Office of the President.
Innovation in the Era of AI: what it takes to bring AI innovations to patients at scale
Julian Hong, MD, was interviewed by Laurel Skurko, discussing his pioneering work in radiation oncology and his perspective on where innovation is gaining traction, where it requires ongoing vigilance, and the lessons to be learned.
AI Bots Accurately Analyze Big Data Set to Predict Preterm Birth
Marina Sirota, PhD, featured in UCSF News, discussing her breakthrough work in using AI to generate codes which analyze health data to predict preterm birth.
Toward Personalized Healing: AI-Supported Wearables in Mental Health Practice
Peter Washington, PhD, featured in IEEE Pulse Magazine, discussing his pioneering work on combining AI with biosensors to detect and intervene on mental health conditions and substance use in real-time.
