MED 262: Current Trends in Biomedical Informatics (Seminar)
Instructor: Jejo Koola, MD, MSQuarter: Fall, Winter and Spring, Fridays, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Classes will be held remotely using Zoom or onsite (BRF-II 5A03), which will be announced weekly.
Units: 1
DBMI Ph.D. students are required to complete 6 quarters of MED262 in order to fulfill Ph.D. curriculum requirements.
Schedule of speakers and topics will be updated periodically.
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Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor’s Endowed ChairAssociate Professor of Medicine in Biomedical InformaticsChief Health AI Officer and Associate CMIO for Inpatient Care|
Date |
Person |
Title |
Institution |
Topic |
| 01/10/2025 | Greg Appelbaum, PhD | Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Head: Human Performance Optimization Lab (OptiLab) Director of Research, UCSD Interventional Psychiatry Program |
UC San Diego Health |
Building a psychiatric clinical decision support system for Interventional Psychiatry |
| 01/17/2025 | Brian Clay, MD |
Professor of Medicine, Associate Chief Medical Officer for Inpatient Care |
UC San Diego Health | Leveraging Informatics and the Electronic Medical Record to Support Hospital Patient Flow |
| 01/24/2025 | ||||
| 01/31/2025 | Mohammad Ghassemi, PhD | Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Health Data Science | Michigan State University | Bridging the Gap: Enhancing LLM Performance in Low-Resource Languages with New Benchmarks, Fine-Tuning, and Cultural Adjustments |
| 02/07/2025 | 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 | UC San Diego | Tidier.jl: Lessons from building a data analysis ecosystem in Julia |
| 02/14/2025 | ||||
| 02/21/2025 | Biren Kamdar, MD, MBA, MHS | Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine | UC San Diego Health | Intensive Care after COVID: Challenges and Opportunities. |
| 02/28/2025 | Andrew Wong, MD | Research Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program; and Clinical Instructor, Department of Internal Medicine | Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation and University of Michigan Health System | Governance of Clinical Prediction Models in the Era of AI |
| 03/07/2025 | ||||
| 03/14/2025 |