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DBDS' Professor Barbara Engelhardt

Barbara Engelhardt Elected Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology

DBDS’ Barbara Engelhardt, a senior investigator at Gladstone Institutes, was elected as a fellow to the International Society for Computational Biology, joining 14 other scientists from around the world who earn the distinction this year. The ISCB Fellows program is a prestigious recognition within the field of computational biology honoring those who have made outstanding contributions to the discipline.

Engelhardt, who’s also a professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, is globally acclaimed for advancing statistical and machine learning models that analyze a large number of variables in biomedical research. Her work spans genomic data, imaging data, and the vast troves of electronic medical record data that could be used to predict the best course of treatment or correct health inequities.

Read it here: https://gladstone.org/news/barbara-engelhardt-elected-fellow-international-society-computational-biology

Akshay Chaudhari's group publishes new paper in Nature Medicine on adapting open-source and closed-source large language models for clinical text summarization tasks. We present a framework for quantitative and qualitative evaluation of language models, showing that the best adapted models can even outperform medical experts.

Akshay Chaudhari’s group publishes new paper in Nature Medicine on adapting large language models for clinical text summarization tasks

Akshay Chaudhari’s group publishes new paper in Nature Medicine on adapting open-source and closed-source large language models for clinical text summarization tasks. The paper presents a framework for quantitative and qualitative evaluation of language models, showing that the best adapted models can even outperform medical experts.
Read it here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02855-5

Illustration about Artificial Intelligence in healthcare

Plevritis and Shah panelists for State of AI in Health and Medicine, 3/18

StanfordMed LIVE: The State of AI in Health and Medicine

Join StanfordMed LIVE for this special panel discussion on the state of AI in health and medicine on March 18, from 12-1 p.m. at 500P Assembly Hall (virtual option available). Following opening remarks by Stanford Medicine’s three leaders – Dean Lloyd Minor, David Entwistle and Paul King – there will be a panel discussion featuring David Magnus, PhD; Natalie Pageler, MD; Michael Pfeffer, MD; Sylvia Plevritis, PhD; and Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD. Lunch will be available for in-person attendees.