MED 262: Current Trends in Biomedical Informatics (Seminar)

Instructor: Jejo Koola, MD, MS
Quarter: 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

Seminar Dates and Times
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	Dr. Monica Agrawal	Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Division of Translational Biomedical Informatics, Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics	Duke University School of Medicine	Responsible Natural Language Processing for Healthcare
04/04/2025	Jonathan Chen, MD, PhD	Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Data Science, Faculty Director for Medical Education in AI; Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research	Stanford University	AI in Medicine - Real Magic or Illusions?
04/11/2025	Vikram Agarwal, PhD	Head of mRNA Platform Design Data Science	mRNA Center of Excellence, Sanofi	Predicting the translation efficiency of messenger RNA in mammalian cells
04/18/2025	Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD, FACP, FACMI	Affiliate Faculty, Div. of Biomedical Informatics, UCSD; CEO, Health Level 7 International	UC San Diego	Leveraging HL7 standards for AI: Enhancing security and transparency
05/02/2025	Wei-Hung Weng, MD PhD Annalisa Pawlosky, PhD	Research Scientists	Google Research	Towards an AI co-scientist: augmenting scientific discovery with collaborative multi-agent AI