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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to CPH's Adam Yala, collaborator Maggie Chung, MD and team, honored with UCSF Carroll Innovation award for bold, disruptive research on vision/language models for improved diagnosis. Pioneering work and a great honor! UCSF Radiology

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 2d

CPH and @UC Berkeley EECS Prof. @emmapierson.bsky.social on whether AI use to remove the doctor from medical visits is really what we need--in MIT Tech Review @technologyreview.com

This medical startup uses LLMs to run appointments and make diagnoses

“Our focus is really on what we can do to pull the doctor out of the visit,” says Akido’s CTO.

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 5d

ICYMI. Watch CPH's @idasim.bsky.social talk to the NIH's Bridge2AI about the new ethics required for doctor/patient interactions in the age of "relational" AI. #GenAI

Relational Health AI and Respect for Persons | Ida Sim | Discussion Forum on Emerging ELSI Issues

September 2025: This month, Dr. Ida Sim discussed relational AI in healthcare and its impact on respecting all persons, including patients and clinicians. With generative AI, machines now used…

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 6d

@goodauth.bluesky.social analyzes shifting political speech on immigration---building on work by CPH's Serina Chang and Dan Jurofsky and co. goodauthority.org/news/why-ele...

Why elected leaders began to speak more positively about immigration 75 years ago.

One figure explains the Cold War’s influence on America’s immigration past – and what’s happening now.

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 9d

Join us Oct 22 1-2 PT for the CPH seminar: DevanJanagath, MD, MPH on Biomarkers for Tuberculosis Diagnosis--including wearables, computation and translating from discovery to practice. Via Zoom. Register here: buff.ly/7OsMIyY

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 19d

Good news! CPH's @amalaa.bsky.social and colleagues @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social and Tom Harvitgsen have received a grant from the NIH Director's office for work on participatory mutimodal AI and editable foundation models to improve diagnosis and tx. @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 20d

The CPH PhD program is now accepting applications for Fall 2026 🎓 ✨

We're looking for passionate, driven students ready to shape the future of health with the power of computation.

🔗 Learn more and apply: buff.ly/puAPR5w
#AIHealth #UCSF #UCBerkeley #FutureofHealth

PhD Program - Computational Precision Health

PhD Program The PhD in Computational Precision Health leverages and bridges the complementary expertise and incredible resources of UC Berkeley and UCSF to create an unparalleled and truly unique…

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 22d

Well-labeled, diverse, open repos of medical data are rare. CPH+U Chicago's CAII are changing that--CPH this fall becomes a co-host of Nightingale, a global repo of ground-truthed de-ided medical images. buff.ly/FHiwBQU h/t Nightingale co-founder Ziad Obermeyer @berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social

Partnering to Advance the Future of AI in Health

CAAI and UCSF UC Berkeley’s Computational Precision Health program to jointly host diverse, high-quality health data repository.

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 26d

How to assess AI fit and function in health, and how does context change the calculus? Hear from Jean Feng @irenetrampoline.bsky.social and Hugo Campos Jr (and others on the CPH YouTube channel). @ajh.bsky.social moderates. buff.ly/YBTvBJD @ucsfdocit.bsky.social

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Aug 26

CPH's Executive Director @wolfenyc on why CPH is a different kind of #AI education program, and why it matters. #AI4Good #VoicesofCPH

CPH: a Different AI Education

featuring CPH's Executive Director, Daniel Wolfe

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Aug 25

Welcome @emmapierson.bsky.social and @serinachang5.bsky.social -- we're so thrilled to have you in the Computational Precision Health community!

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CDSS welcomes 17 new faculty to the college in 2025

UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) welcomed 17 new faculty in statistics, electrical engineering and computer sciences, and computational precision health to its comm...

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Aug 19

How can we better #model #gigabytes of #data when screening for #cancer and other #health conditions? CPH's Dr. Adam Yala discusses how he is building the next generation of #AI risk detection models.

AI based risk detection models for personalized cancer screening

Featuring: Dr. Adam Yala

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Aug 5

“It’s about the human components of practicing everyday.”

CPH faculty & Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation’s Jon Kolstad discusses why we need to think about system incentives when considering #AI advances in #health.
#BerkeleyHaas #AI4all #economics

System incentives when considering AI advances in health

Featuring: Dr. Jonathan Kolstad

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jul 29

Great both to welcome @Serinachang5.bsky.social to CPH faculty, and to see her honored with a Google Research award to advance a new generation of AI-powered population health models!

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jul 29

#ML models often drop in performance from one #hospital to another. How do we understand reasons for the drop & use them to improve #models? Dr. Harvineet Singh
tells us about a framework that provides an actionable decomposition of performance. buff.ly/Gl8sNW4 #AIforall

"Why did the AUC drop?" Explaining Performance Changes of ML Models across Hospital Sites

Featuring Harvineet Singh

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jul 15

Sylvia Chen proposes doubly robust policy learning, where targeted maximum likelihood estimation with automatically debiased neural nets to learn the optimal shifts for multidimensional #treatment #variables under a stochastic treatment regime. #causalinference www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DhF...

Doubly Robust Policy Learning for Causal Stochastic Interventions Thru Auto-debiased Neural Networks

Featuring Sylvia Cheng

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jul 9

For #patients with #heart disease, #AI is transforming the #diagnosis process. @amalaa.bsky.social discusses the #data driven techniques that are highlighting the most efficient and affordable solutions for individuals.
#ozempic #AIforall #research #hearthealthy

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jul 1

Big congrats to CPH grad students, Radhika Bhalerao for receiving the Julius R. and Patricia A. Krevans Fellowship and Adú Matory, who has been awarded the UCSF Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship! We’re so proud to celebrate this achievement! #CPH #UCSF #UCB

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jul 1

#Breast #cancer screening reduces mortality, but significant controversy exists over optimal screening guidelines. CPH #PhD student, Michael Nercessian, build on Dr. Adam Yala & colleagues' Mirai, a state of the art risk #prediction model. #AI #ML buff.ly/rejSXij

Mirai-1.5: Assessing Breast Cancer Risk From Any Mammogram

Featuring Michael Nercessian, Computational Precision Health PhD student

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jun 24

@egnij.bsky.social , @irenetrampoline.bsky.social and colleagues used an #LLM to extract #data on structural determinants of health—and identified its impact on #patients who got #liver transplants. Dr. Ge describes their work. @ucsfhealth.bsky.social
@amcollegegastro.bsky.social

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jun 20

Congratulations to CPH's @[email protected], winner of a Google Research Scholar award for groundbreaking work on use of AI and high-throughput proteomics to predict treatment impact for populations often excluded from clinical trials. @ucsf-bchsi.bsky.social

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jun 17

Can an open #dataset of #ECGs linked to #cardiac catheterization outcomes help improve #diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes, by allowing a broad set of #researchers to develop new #ML approaches? CPH #Phd student Alex Schubert tells us more! #AIforall buff.ly/q80cj3g

Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Syndrome using ECG waveforms: A ML framework and benchmark dataset

Featuring Alexander Schubert, Computational Precision Health PhD student

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Designated Emphasis program is looking for students to join the Fall 2025 cohort. Interested students are encourage to apply here: bit.ly/45R68mF
#CPH #DE #Fall25 #admissions #apply

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jun 10

CPH's @irenetrampoline.bsky.social explains the #data addition dilemma, and how adding more doesn't always make a #model better. See this and other quick takes on cutting-edge research on the CPH #YouTube channel:

The data addition dilemma: when adding more data helps or hinders model performance

Featuring: Dr. Irene Chen

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jun 10

Prospective students are welcomed to join the information session on Thursday, June 26 at 12:00PST. Come and ask the questions that will help you prepare for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. Register: bit.ly/43zkZ3M #admissions #cph #fall26 #AI4Halth #infosession