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Nigam Shah: Which LLM is best for real health care needs?

When a large language model first passed the United States Medical Licensing Exam in 2023, it was a big deal. But two years later, what was once a notable milestone in artificial intelligence progress is more of a bare minimum.

“It’s not enough for a large language model to simply answer medical test questions accurately,” said Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD, chief data scientist at Stanford Health Care. “That type of evaluation doesn’t tell us anything about what matters.”

Read more: https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2025/04/08/ai-artificial-intelligence-evaluation-algorithm/

8th Stat4Onc Annual Symposium 5/16-17

We are excited to announce the opening registration website for the 8th Stat4Onc Annual Symposium, which will take place May 16-17, 2025, at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

The Stat4Onc Annual Symposium is an NCI sponsored conference that fosters interdisciplinary discussions between clinical and quantitative scientists on cancer clinical trials. Researchers from academia, industry, and regulatory agencies are invited to share their latest research, explore novel ideas, and collaborate on solutions for enhancing trial design, drug development, and patient care.
Find more details here: The Stat4Onc Annual Symposium

Five short courses are offered on May 15 and May 18. Please visit registration link for short course registration fees.

REGISTER NOW!

DBDS Open House May 6

We’re excited to announce DBDS OPEN HOUSE 2025 – and we’d love for you to join us!

Date: May 6, 2025
Time: 4pm-6pm
Location: Edwards Building, 300 Pasteur Drive, 3rd floor, Stanford, CA 94305

Nima Agheepour in Nature Medicine: AI can help doctors give intravenous nutrition to preemies, Stanford Medicine study finds

An algorithm that learned from tens of thousands of nutrition prescriptions for premature babies could reduce medical errors and better identify what nutrients the smallest patients need.

You may remember that Nima presented this work at the C&C in January.
Read it here: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/prematurity-nutrition0.html