Congratulations to Katrina Abuabara, MD and Julian Hong, MD for receiving the 2026 ARCHES Mid-Career Development Award for being outstanding mentors to individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to the PRIDE Values and Principles of Community!
Yun Song, PhD, leads UC Berkeley/UCSF Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative
Congratulations to Yun Song and collaborators for launching the UC Berkeley/UCSF Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative, a joint program to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine to accelerate advances in clinical care.
Reza Abbasi-Asl Receives the UC Noyce Initiative Award and the 2026 Marcus Program Transformative Integrated Research Award
Congratulations to Reza Abbasi-Asl for receiving the UC Noyce Initiative Award to develop robust vision-language models for clinical applications, in collaboration with UCSB and UCD, and the 2026 Marcus Program Transformative Integrated Research Award with UCSF researchers, focusing on developing personalized brain network models to predict non-invasive brain stimulation responsiveness in stroke patients.
Sandya Subramanian, PhD, Receives the Weill Institute-Catalyst Final Award for Medical Devices
Congratulations to Sandya Subramanian, PhD, and collaborators, for winning the Weill Institute-Catalyst Final Award for Medical Devices for their project, DetruSense – A Non-invasive Wearable Sensor for Bladder Muscle Activity.
Welcome Ziad Obermeyer, MD to the CPH Faculty!
We are delighted to welcome Ziad Obermeyer, MD as a new CPH faculty member. Appointed jointly with UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Dr. Obermeyer’s work includes algorithmic bias and the integration of AI into clinical workflows. Dr. Obermeyer has been honored with several important awards, including TIME100 most influential people working in artificial intelligence.
Romain Pirracchio, MD, MPH, PhD receives the National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader award
Congratulations to Romain Pirracchio, MD, MPH, PhD, for receiving the National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader award at the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal NAM Emerging Leaders Forum!
Yun Song, PhD, elected as Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
Congratulations to Yun Song, PhD, who has been elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)!
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.
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.
Noah Baker Wins Community Engagement Award for Rare Disease LLM Research
Congratulations to Noah Baker, CPH DE student, recipient of the 2025 UCSF QBC Retreat Community Engagement Award. Noah’s PhD research on LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation work to improve rare disease cohort identification tackles one of the biggest challenges in rare disease research.
