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Ahmed Alaa
@amalaa.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley and UCSF.

Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare. https://alaalab.berkeley.edu/
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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
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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What happens in SAIL 2025 stays in SAIL 2025 -- except for these anonymized hot takes! 🔥 Jotted down 17 de-identified quotes on AI and medicine from medical executives, journal editors, and academics in off-the-record discussions in Puerto Rico

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May 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Real world data (RWD) analyses need diverse expertise in medicine/stats/causality. As a result, RWD causal analysis is slow and prone to error. AI tools can help.

Perspective in NEJM AI w/Maya Petersen, @amalaa.bsky.social, Chris Holmes, Mark van der Laan

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Artificial Intelligence–Based Copilots to Generate Causal Evidence
While there is growing consensus that real-world data should play a larger role in generating causal evidence for health care, it is less clear whether and how AI can help. Current approaches to AI...
ai.nejm.org
January 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Fourth lecture of CPH 290: Julia Adler-Milstein provided an overview of the Division of Clinical Informatics and Transformation at UCSF and their approach for deploying and evaluating AI models within the health system.

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Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD Digital Transformation and Healthcare Innovation at UCSF
YouTube video by Computational Precision Health
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December 17, 2024 at 4:48 PM
If you're attending #NeurIPS2024 be sure to stop by our lab's posters today!

In Poster Session 3 (11 AM - 2 PM PST), Frances Dean will present our work on learning physics-based models of cardiac hemodynamics using non-invasive data to simulate disease and treatment outcomes.
December 12, 2024 at 4:44 PM
In our third CPH 290 lecture, we hosted the CTO and co-founder of OpenEvidence, one of the most widely used AI-based medical search platforms. He shared how his team uses LLMs + other tools to enhance the visualization, presentation and synthesis of clinical evidence.

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Zack Ziegler - OpenEvidence and the Real-World Power of AI
YouTube video by Computational Precision Health
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December 3, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025! CS PhD Deadline: Dec. 15th.

I work on safe/reliable ML and causal inference, motivated by healthcare applications.

Beyond myself, Johns Hopkins has a rich community of folks doing similar work. Come join us!
November 27, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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Probably should be making pies, but it’s much more fun to blog about calibration.

This one gets into more practical issues w/recently proposed solutions like multicalibration, discussing results from a recent empirical evaluation

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/11/26/p...
Practical issues with calibration for every group and every decision problem | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
November 26, 2024 at 8:12 PM
In the second lecture of CPH 290, @jameszou.bsky.social gave an overview of the evaluation practices and regulatory landscape of medical AI. We posted the lecture on Youtube:

youtu.be/f8wr_Md6xnk?...
James Zou - How Are Medical AI Devices Evaluated, Updated and Deployed October 3, 2024
YouTube video by Computational Precision Health
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November 26, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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It's tough to gain visibility as a young researcher, and it's job market season! Are you a theoretical computer science PhD/postdoc on the job market?

I don't have a crazy juge audience but I'll try to help a bit: fill this form, and I'll tweet your pitch and info!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Theoretical CS Job Market 2024
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November 23, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Most clinical AI models are only evaluated for accuracy in retrospective datasets w/o real-world evaluation of clinical utility. In the the first lecture of our CPH 290 class, Julian Hong (UCSF) discussed a UCSF RCT of AI-driven risk prediction in radiotherapy acute care.

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Julian Hong - The Smart Cancer Center September 26th, 2024
YouTube video by Computational Precision Health
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November 20, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Hello BlueSky world! 🦋 We're recruiting PhD students at UC Berkeley and UCSF!

If you're interested in machine learning for healthcare, statistics/causal inference, or medical vision-language models, we'd love to hear from you: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 18, 2024 at 12:20 AM