Amin
@aminad.bsky.social
Fairness in Medical AI, Research Scientist and PhD Candidate at UBC
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Territory, Vancouver
xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Territory, Vancouver
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Online registration for #ML4H2025 closes in 6-7 days! Don't wait. Secure your spot before November 21st and join us in San Diego: ahli.cc/ml4h-register/
In-person registration will be available during the event at Westin San Diego Gaslamp.
In-person registration will be available during the event at Westin San Diego Gaslamp.
ML4H 2025 Registration – AHLI
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November 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Online registration for #ML4H2025 closes in 6-7 days! Don't wait. Secure your spot before November 21st and join us in San Diego: ahli.cc/ml4h-register/
In-person registration will be available during the event at Westin San Diego Gaslamp.
In-person registration will be available during the event at Westin San Diego Gaslamp.
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Social Determinants of Health and Racial Disparities in Lung Function
Environmental exposures explain a larger proportion of racial disparities in lung function than previously believed
aminad.bsky.social @news.ubc.ca @donsin40.bsky.social
@msafavi.bsky.social
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Environmental exposures explain a larger proportion of racial disparities in lung function than previously believed
aminad.bsky.social @news.ubc.ca @donsin40.bsky.social
@msafavi.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Social Determinants of Health and Racial Disparities in Lung Function
Environmental exposures explain a larger proportion of racial disparities in lung function than previously believed
aminad.bsky.social @news.ubc.ca @donsin40.bsky.social
@msafavi.bsky.social
🔗 tinyurl.com/43vb6ubz
Environmental exposures explain a larger proportion of racial disparities in lung function than previously believed
aminad.bsky.social @news.ubc.ca @donsin40.bsky.social
@msafavi.bsky.social
🔗 tinyurl.com/43vb6ubz
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"Trapped in a ChatGPT Spiral." 🌀
Important work by @kashhill.bsky.social & @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com on how chatbots have a tendency to endorse conspiratorial and mystical belief systems. This shows again how conformist LLMs can be. Worth a listen 👇
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/p...
Important work by @kashhill.bsky.social & @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com on how chatbots have a tendency to endorse conspiratorial and mystical belief systems. This shows again how conformist LLMs can be. Worth a listen 👇
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/p...
Trapped in a ChatGPT Spiral
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"Trapped in a ChatGPT Spiral." 🌀
Important work by @kashhill.bsky.social & @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com on how chatbots have a tendency to endorse conspiratorial and mystical belief systems. This shows again how conformist LLMs can be. Worth a listen 👇
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/p...
Important work by @kashhill.bsky.social & @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com on how chatbots have a tendency to endorse conspiratorial and mystical belief systems. This shows again how conformist LLMs can be. Worth a listen 👇
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/p...
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Some health-data companies are selling access to patient records to pharmaceutical companies without patients’ knowledge, according to a new study, by @hannay.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... via @theglobeandmail.com
Health-data companies selling access to patient records, study says
Research paper highlights potential downsides when private companies are integrated into the health care system in crucial roles without enough oversight
www.theglobeandmail.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Some health-data companies are selling access to patient records to pharmaceutical companies without patients’ knowledge, according to a new study, by @hannay.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Is it (race as a social determinant of health)...
or is it (racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities")?
or is it (racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities")?
November 1, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Is it (race as a social determinant of health)...
or is it (racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities")?
or is it (racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities")?
🗞️Hot off the press in @atsblueeditor.bsky.social!
Our analysis shows that unfavourable social and environmental exposures
explain a much larger share of racial disparities in lung function than previously thought.
Details: doi.org/10.1164/rccm...
@msafavi.bsky.social @awgaffney.bsky.social
Our analysis shows that unfavourable social and environmental exposures
explain a much larger share of racial disparities in lung function than previously thought.
Details: doi.org/10.1164/rccm...
@msafavi.bsky.social @awgaffney.bsky.social
Social Determinants of Health and Racial Disparities in Lung Function: Findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007–2012 | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care...
doi.org
November 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🗞️Hot off the press in @atsblueeditor.bsky.social!
Our analysis shows that unfavourable social and environmental exposures
explain a much larger share of racial disparities in lung function than previously thought.
Details: doi.org/10.1164/rccm...
@msafavi.bsky.social @awgaffney.bsky.social
Our analysis shows that unfavourable social and environmental exposures
explain a much larger share of racial disparities in lung function than previously thought.
Details: doi.org/10.1164/rccm...
@msafavi.bsky.social @awgaffney.bsky.social
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🎉 #ML4H2025 decisions are out!
✅ 74 papers accepted in the Proceedings track
✅ 71 papers accepted in the Findings track
Huge congrats to all authors!
Register today and join us in San Diego for an amazing conference: ahli.cc/ml4h-register/
✅ 74 papers accepted in the Proceedings track
✅ 71 papers accepted in the Findings track
Huge congrats to all authors!
Register today and join us in San Diego for an amazing conference: ahli.cc/ml4h-register/
ML4H 2025 Registration – AHLI
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October 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
🎉 #ML4H2025 decisions are out!
✅ 74 papers accepted in the Proceedings track
✅ 71 papers accepted in the Findings track
Huge congrats to all authors!
Register today and join us in San Diego for an amazing conference: ahli.cc/ml4h-register/
✅ 74 papers accepted in the Proceedings track
✅ 71 papers accepted in the Findings track
Huge congrats to all authors!
Register today and join us in San Diego for an amazing conference: ahli.cc/ml4h-register/
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⏰ Don’t miss the Early Bird rates (ends Oct 15)!
AI & the Future of Medicine
📅 Nov 15–16 | 📍 UBC Vancouver
Day 1: Free
Day 2: $15 (academics) / $150 (industry)
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#DataHealthUBC #AIandMedicine #MITCriticalData
AI & the Future of Medicine
📅 Nov 15–16 | 📍 UBC Vancouver
Day 1: Free
Day 2: $15 (academics) / $150 (industry)
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#DataHealthUBC #AIandMedicine #MITCriticalData
October 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
⏰ Don’t miss the Early Bird rates (ends Oct 15)!
AI & the Future of Medicine
📅 Nov 15–16 | 📍 UBC Vancouver
Day 1: Free
Day 2: $15 (academics) / $150 (industry)
🎟️ Register now tinyurl.com/2ja3n5j8
ℹ️ More info tinyurl.com/44vayx4m
#DataHealthUBC #AIandMedicine #MITCriticalData
AI & the Future of Medicine
📅 Nov 15–16 | 📍 UBC Vancouver
Day 1: Free
Day 2: $15 (academics) / $150 (industry)
🎟️ Register now tinyurl.com/2ja3n5j8
ℹ️ More info tinyurl.com/44vayx4m
#DataHealthUBC #AIandMedicine #MITCriticalData
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Q: The US spends almost 2x on healthcare - why? Is it the 💰prices, or ⬆️use?
A: It's (still) the prices. We pay 2x prices (and often use less: fewer in-person physician visits, shorter hospital stays) www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collec...
#Quality #Affordability #Healthcare
A: It's (still) the prices. We pay 2x prices (and often use less: fewer in-person physician visits, shorter hospital stays) www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collec...
#Quality #Affordability #Healthcare
How healthcare prices and utilization in the United States compare to peer nations? - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
This chart collection compares indicators of health care utilization and prices in the United States and 11 similarly wealthy countries to investigate whether higher prices or higher utilization of he...
www.healthsystemtracker.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Q: The US spends almost 2x on healthcare - why? Is it the 💰prices, or ⬆️use?
A: It's (still) the prices. We pay 2x prices (and often use less: fewer in-person physician visits, shorter hospital stays) www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collec...
#Quality #Affordability #Healthcare
A: It's (still) the prices. We pay 2x prices (and often use less: fewer in-person physician visits, shorter hospital stays) www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collec...
#Quality #Affordability #Healthcare
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A Spanish foundation using an artificial-intelligence tool to screen grant applications says it makes the peer-review process more efficient, but other researchers say it’s a breakdown in trust. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions
A Spanish foundation using an artificial-intelligence tool to screen grant applications says it makes the peer-review process more efficient, but other researchers say it’s a breakdown in trust.
www.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A Spanish foundation using an artificial-intelligence tool to screen grant applications says it makes the peer-review process more efficient, but other researchers say it’s a breakdown in trust. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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📢 Submissions are OPEN for #ML4H2025!
Main Symposium and Demos Track now accepting papers. Deadline for both is Sept 8 (AOE).
🔗 Symposium: openreview.net/group?id=ML4...
🔗 Demos: openreview.net/group?id=ML4...
Join us in sunny San Diego on Dec 1–2, right before
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
Main Symposium and Demos Track now accepting papers. Deadline for both is Sept 8 (AOE).
🔗 Symposium: openreview.net/group?id=ML4...
🔗 Demos: openreview.net/group?id=ML4...
Join us in sunny San Diego on Dec 1–2, right before
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
ML4H 2025 Symposium
Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for ML4H 2025 Symposium
openreview.net
August 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
📢 Submissions are OPEN for #ML4H2025!
Main Symposium and Demos Track now accepting papers. Deadline for both is Sept 8 (AOE).
🔗 Symposium: openreview.net/group?id=ML4...
🔗 Demos: openreview.net/group?id=ML4...
Join us in sunny San Diego on Dec 1–2, right before
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
Main Symposium and Demos Track now accepting papers. Deadline for both is Sept 8 (AOE).
🔗 Symposium: openreview.net/group?id=ML4...
🔗 Demos: openreview.net/group?id=ML4...
Join us in sunny San Diego on Dec 1–2, right before
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
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📢 The #ML4H2025 Author Mentorship Program is now open for sign-ups!
🐣 Mentees: get expert feedback & level up your submission
🦉 Mentors: share your wisdom & support the next gen
It’s like co-writing, minus the authorship drama!
Sign up 👉 ahli.cc/ml4h/mentors...
🐣 Mentees: get expert feedback & level up your submission
🦉 Mentors: share your wisdom & support the next gen
It’s like co-writing, minus the authorship drama!
Sign up 👉 ahli.cc/ml4h/mentors...
Mentorship Programs – ML4H
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July 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
📢 The #ML4H2025 Author Mentorship Program is now open for sign-ups!
🐣 Mentees: get expert feedback & level up your submission
🦉 Mentors: share your wisdom & support the next gen
It’s like co-writing, minus the authorship drama!
Sign up 👉 ahli.cc/ml4h/mentors...
🐣 Mentees: get expert feedback & level up your submission
🦉 Mentors: share your wisdom & support the next gen
It’s like co-writing, minus the authorship drama!
Sign up 👉 ahli.cc/ml4h/mentors...
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🚨 Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) is back and better than ever!
🌴 Join us in San Diego on December 1–2, 2025, right before
@NeurIPSConf!
📢 Call for Papers is LIVE → ahli.cc/ml4h/call-fo...
⏳ Deadline: Sept 8 — don’t miss it!
🔁 RT and follow @ahli-cc.bsky.social for updates!
🌴 Join us in San Diego on December 1–2, 2025, right before
@NeurIPSConf!
📢 Call for Papers is LIVE → ahli.cc/ml4h/call-fo...
⏳ Deadline: Sept 8 — don’t miss it!
🔁 RT and follow @ahli-cc.bsky.social for updates!
Call for Papers – ML4H
ahli.cc
June 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
🚨 Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) is back and better than ever!
🌴 Join us in San Diego on December 1–2, 2025, right before
@NeurIPSConf!
📢 Call for Papers is LIVE → ahli.cc/ml4h/call-fo...
⏳ Deadline: Sept 8 — don’t miss it!
🔁 RT and follow @ahli-cc.bsky.social for updates!
🌴 Join us in San Diego on December 1–2, 2025, right before
@NeurIPSConf!
📢 Call for Papers is LIVE → ahli.cc/ml4h/call-fo...
⏳ Deadline: Sept 8 — don’t miss it!
🔁 RT and follow @ahli-cc.bsky.social for updates!
Lung function reference equations are designed to estimate healthy lung function using data from healthy volunteers. However, in patients with respiratory diseases, "healthy lung function" is an unobservable counterfactual.
www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...
How (Not) to Validate Race-Neutral Lung Function Reference Equations | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
www.atsjournals.org
May 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Lung function reference equations are designed to estimate healthy lung function using data from healthy volunteers. However, in patients with respiratory diseases, "healthy lung function" is an unobservable counterfactual.
www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Are you a statistician or health-economist who wants to develop new methods and who is interested in evaluating the role of diagnostic & prognostic prediction models and AI? We have an opening for a PhD position at Maastricht University!
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3503...
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3503...
PhD in Epidemiology on value-of-information from validating clinical prediction models and AI
Join Maastricht University as a PhD student in Epidemiology, advancing interdisciplinary methods to ensure reliable AI in healthcare through innovative statistical and health-economic approaches. Job ...
www.academictransfer.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Are you a statistician or health-economist who wants to develop new methods and who is interested in evaluating the role of diagnostic & prognostic prediction models and AI? We have an opening for a PhD position at Maastricht University!
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3503...
www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3503...
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🫁⚖️ Can lung tests ever be truly race-neutral?
A new study shows no spirometry measure fully avoids racial bias. Fairness depends on context – different definitions of 'race neutrality' clash in practice.
🔗 www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
#SciComm #HealthEquity 🧪
A new study shows no spirometry measure fully avoids racial bias. Fairness depends on context – different definitions of 'race neutrality' clash in practice.
🔗 www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
#SciComm #HealthEquity 🧪
Is Achieving a Fully Race-Neutral Approach to Lung Function Classification Even Possible? | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
www.atsjournals.org
March 23, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🫁⚖️ Can lung tests ever be truly race-neutral?
A new study shows no spirometry measure fully avoids racial bias. Fairness depends on context – different definitions of 'race neutrality' clash in practice.
🔗 www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
#SciComm #HealthEquity 🧪
A new study shows no spirometry measure fully avoids racial bias. Fairness depends on context – different definitions of 'race neutrality' clash in practice.
🔗 www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/...
#SciComm #HealthEquity 🧪
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Breath testing has more than a century of racist assumptions baked into it because it was originally used in the U.S. to argue Black people have inferior lungs, says UBC public scholar Amin Adibi. 🫁
How Racial Bias Affects Asthma Testing | The Tyee
And how a new study points towards a more effective approach.
thetyee.ca
March 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Breath testing has more than a century of racist assumptions baked into it because it was originally used in the U.S. to argue Black people have inferior lungs, says UBC public scholar Amin Adibi. 🫁
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The Blue Journal thanks Amin Adibi, MSc, for his contribution to the March issue
Is Achieving a Fully Race-Neutral Approach to Lung Function Classification Even Possible?
@suryapbhatt.bsky.social
www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10....
Is Achieving a Fully Race-Neutral Approach to Lung Function Classification Even Possible?
@suryapbhatt.bsky.social
www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10....
March 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Blue Journal thanks Amin Adibi, MSc, for his contribution to the March issue
Is Achieving a Fully Race-Neutral Approach to Lung Function Classification Even Possible?
@suryapbhatt.bsky.social
www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10....
Is Achieving a Fully Race-Neutral Approach to Lung Function Classification Even Possible?
@suryapbhatt.bsky.social
www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10....
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📣UBC Medicine Datathon brings together students and professionals from diverse health disciplines and data-related fields to tackle healthcare challenges through data-driven approaches. We invite you to participate! To register and for more info: datascienceandhealth.ubc.ca/events/ubc-m...
UBC Medicine Datathon
The UBC Medicine Datathon brings together students and professionals from dive
datascienceandhealth.ubc.ca
February 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
📣UBC Medicine Datathon brings together students and professionals from diverse health disciplines and data-related fields to tackle healthcare challenges through data-driven approaches. We invite you to participate! To register and for more info: datascienceandhealth.ubc.ca/events/ubc-m...
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New paper alert!!
What makes a ‘good’ decision with AI?
We offer an ethical framework that does not require explainable AI, factors local model performance, and centres patients’ best interests
ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...
What makes a ‘good’ decision with AI?
We offer an ethical framework that does not require explainable AI, factors local model performance, and centres patients’ best interests
ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...
What makes a ‘good’ decision with artificial intelligence? A grounded theory study in paediatric care
Objective To develop a framework for good clinical decision-making using machine learning (ML) models for interventional, patient-level decisions.
Design Grounded theory qualitative interview study.
...
ebm.bmj.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
New paper alert!!
What makes a ‘good’ decision with AI?
We offer an ethical framework that does not require explainable AI, factors local model performance, and centres patients’ best interests
ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...
What makes a ‘good’ decision with AI?
We offer an ethical framework that does not require explainable AI, factors local model performance, and centres patients’ best interests
ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...
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The gap between First Nations and non-First Nations life expectancy in Alberta is 19 years, and wider now than any other point on record. This is a provincial and national emergency. #ableg
www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/f...
www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/f...
February 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The gap between First Nations and non-First Nations life expectancy in Alberta is 19 years, and wider now than any other point on record. This is a provincial and national emergency. #ableg
www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/f...
www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/f...
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Still thinking about this really thoughtful piece. doi.org/10.1164/rccm...
Is Achieving a Fully Race-Neutral Approach to Lung Function Classification Even Possible? | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine | Articles in Press
doi.org
January 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Still thinking about this really thoughtful piece. doi.org/10.1164/rccm...
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This is at the heart of almost every AI-enabled disaster: Scaling is not the only way to improve, it's just the easiest; training on copyrighted work, ignoring data quality, overlooking evaluation validity, etc are not actually"necessary evils", but just represent the path of least resistance.
As I said earlier, scaling was always more about business than science. Scientifically, there’s no law of physics that says AI advancements must come from scaling rather than approaches using the same or fewer resources. Scaling is just an incredibly easy-to-follow formula. 17/
January 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is at the heart of almost every AI-enabled disaster: Scaling is not the only way to improve, it's just the easiest; training on copyrighted work, ignoring data quality, overlooking evaluation validity, etc are not actually"necessary evils", but just represent the path of least resistance.