CPH's Irene Chen has been honored with a Google Research Scholar Award for her work evaluating and improving clinical risk prediction models for patients with lower access to care.

Irene Chen and Jin Ge will receive the Leonidas Berry Health Equity research award from the American College of Gastronenterology for work applying "Large Language Models-Driven Natural Language Processing to Better Understand the Influence of Social Determinants of Health on Disparities in Liver Transplantation."

By integrating massive amounts of data generated by advanced technologies, Dr. Sergio Baranzini and colleagues have identified gene variants linked to faster MS progression. These discoveries are bringing deeper understandings of factors that are driving multiple sclerosis.

CPH student and lead author Nikita Mehandru, CPH faculty Niloufar Salehi and colleagues have won an outstanding paper award at the recent Empirical Methods of Natural Language Processing Conference for their work on Physician Detection of Clinical Harm in Machine Translation.

Ahmed Alaa has been awarded a grant from Microsoft's Accelerate Foundation Models Research Program to use LLMs to develop statistical analysis plans for observational studies. Working with CPH faculty Maya Petersen and Mark van der Laan, Alaa and team will create a chatbot-based LLM that will communicate with multiple stakeholders (statisticians, drug developers & clinical researchers) to develop high-quality statistical analysis plans to evaluate evidence for health benefit in contexts where clinical trials are impracticable.

Dr. Atul Butte has been awarded the 2023 Stead Award for Thought Leadership in Informatics, in acknowledgement of influence over our thinking about informatics, especially improving health and health care in ways that are visionary and transformative.