MED 262: Current Trends in Biomedical Informatics

Course Director: Jejo Koola, MD, MS
Co-Instructor: Karandeep Singh, MD,MMSc
Quarter: Offered Fall, Winter and Spring Quarters: Fridays, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Classes will be held remotely using Zoom or onsite (BRF-II 5A03 or ACTRI, Room 2E 111), which will be announced weekly.
Units: 1

Everyone is welcome to attend!
Students: Sign up for MED262 to get 1 unit credit. DBMI Ph.D. students are required to complete 6 quarters of MED262 in order to fulfill Ph.D. curriculum requirements.

Visit Seminars to view the current schedule and past lecturers.

Courses

Date

Person

Title

Institution

Topic

3/6/2026	Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc.	Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor’s Endowed Chair; Associate Professor of Medicine in Biomedical Informatics; Chief Health AI Officer and Associate CMIO for Inpatient Care	Scientific Challenges of AI Automation in Healthcare
3/13/2026	Jejo Koola, MD, MS	Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine	From Signal to Diagnosis: Machine Learning for Point-of-Care Sleep Apnea Detection
4/03/2026	Aaron Boussina, MS, PhD	Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics	Lab Notebook of a Junior Faculty Member in DBMI
4/10/2026	Gabriel Wardi, MD	Associate Professor Of Clinical, Emergency Medical Services	Improving Sepsis Care at UCSD Through Artificial Intelligence
4/17/2026	Michael Hogarth, MD, FACMI, FACP	Professor of Medicine	Taking Quantum Computing for a Spin
4/24/2026	Paige Nong, PhD	Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management	AI use and governance across the US healthcare system
5/1/2026	Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc	Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor’s Endowed Chair; Associate Professor of Medicine in Biomedical Informatics; Chief Health AI Officer and Associate CMIO for Inpatient Care	5 Myths of Large Language Models
5/8/2026	Adam Rodman, MD, MPH	General Internist and Medical Educator; Assistant Professor	The Die Is Cast: Two Competing Views on Clinician-AI Collaboration and the Future in the Medical Mind
5/15/2026	Rodney Gabriel, MD, MAS	Anesthesiology; Associate Professor of AnesthesiologyAssociate Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Division of Biomedical Informatics	Leveraging Multi-Modal Data for Clinical Prediction Models
5/22/2026	Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD, FAAD	Assistant Director; Director of Informatics	The Product-Market Fit: how to spin out your AI Technologies
6/5/2026	Amy Sitapati, MD	Clinical Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Biomedical Informatics, Chair of the UC San Diego Health Department of Biomedical Informatics, primary care physician at UC San Diego Health	Clinical Informatics Most Impactful Publications in the Past 1-year