Illustration of health care professionals and AI working together

James Zou: “The rise of agentic AI teammates in medicine,” The Lancet, 2/8 issue

“Medicine is in the dawn of a fundamental shift from using artificial intelligence (AI) as tools to deploying AI as agents. When used as a tool, AI is passive and reactive. Even powerful medical AI foundation models today remain tools that depend on human users to provide input and context, interpret their output, and take follow-up steps. To fully unlock AI’s potential in medicine, clinicians need to make the key conceptual shift from using AI as sophisticated calculators to embracing AI as health-care teammates.”
Read more here:  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00202-8/abstract

Monday Student Talks: 2/24 Suhana Bedi; Sohaib Hassan

DBDS Student Talks (BIOMEDIN 201) Winter Quarter 2024-25 in Alway M114/ZOOM. Lunch will be provided for the talks.

Upcoming 2/24 Monday Talk Speakers:

DATE 12:15-12:45  12:45-1:15 
2/24/2025 Bedi, Suhana Hassan, Sohaib

 

Attendance will be taken weekly on a Google sheet. Please sign your name on the sheet when you attend the Monday Talks via Zoom or in-person.

Hybrid model, with both in-person and remote attendance via Zoom.

If you require any special accommodations, please reach out to DBDS Student Services in advance before the date of your talk.

Zoom Link: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97615772092?pwd=J5LziKarW0NjoJ7QKHFKZMOX8lh2gS.1&from=addon

Password: 562775

Panel at C&C Forum 2025

Collaboration and Careers Forum Overview 2025

“This is a new era for us,” Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science Sylvia Plevritis began, opening the third annual Collaboration & Careers Forum on January 16, 2025. The event, which connected leaders from various sectors with DBDS faculty, students, and researchers to discuss technological advancements in precision healthcare, focused heavily on new developments in AI. It explored how those advancements could be applied to improve efficiencies and health outcomes.

Read the story here: https://dbds.stanford.edu/collaboration-and-careers-2025-overview/https://dbds.stanford.edu/collaboration-and-careers-2025-overview/

an illustration of biotech

Warren Alpert Computational Biology & Artificial Intelligence  Scholars Program recruiting new cohort

The Warren Alpert Computational Biology & Artificial Intelligence  Scholars Program in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford is recruiting its second cohort of scholars for the 2025-2026 academic year.  We have a one-year postdoctoral fellowship position available through the program.

The application is now open and will close on March 15th, 2025.

For more details, please visit the WA CBAI website. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to xsitu@stanford.edu.