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.
A Jay Holmgren Receives AMIA New Investigator Award
Congratulations to A Jay Holmgren, recipient of the prestigious 2025 AMIA New Investigator award for groundbreaking work on how digital health and information technology shape care for patients, clinicians, and health systems.
Julian Hong and Sara Murray named 2026 Fellows of AMIA
CPH AGG members Julian Hong, MD, MS, and Sara Murray, MD, MAS were named 2026 Fellows of the American Medical Informatics Association, in recognition of their work to apply informatics to improve personal and population health, organizational performance, and individual empowerment in healthcare.
