News Archive

  • Congratulations to Travis Zack for the publication of our study A Clinical Reasoning-Encoded Case Library Developed through Natural Language Processing in the Journal of General Internal Medicine! Check out the website!
  • Congratulations to Travis Zack for receiving the UCSF Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Demonstration Award for his project “Oncologic treatment history identification and visualization through Apex and Information Commons!”
  • Congratulations to Yash Huilgol and the publication of his work with our awesome collaborators Julia Adler-Milstein and Susan Ivey describing the opportunities for electronic health record audit logs to improve cancer care in Cancer Medicine!
  • SHIELD-RT was recognized with the 2021 Radiation Oncology Institute Publication Award. It was previously recognized by Cambridge Healthtech Institute and Bio-IT World with an Innovative Practice Award at the Bio-IT World Conference and Expo as well as the New England Journal of Medicine Travel Award at the Symposium for Artificial Intelligence in Learning Health Systems (SAIL; video available online). It is one of the early randomized controlled interventional studies of healthcare machine learning and was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology and covered by the ASCO Post.
  • Great to be back at the AMIA Annual Symposium this year! Congratulations to Divya Natesan on the Distinguished Poster award and to Saira Somnay for presenting her work.
  • Congratulations to Will Chen on the publication of our study investigating the association of mental health diagnoses and mortality in patients with cancer in Cancer. Coverage in CURE and Healio.
  • Julian Hong's commentary describing best practices in causal inference and real world data was recently published in JAMA Network Open.
  • Kevin Miao is presenting our work on applying machine learning to predicting potentially preventable acute care based on OP-35 at the ASCO Quality Care Symposium.
  • Our collaboration with the Durham Veteran's Affairs Cooperative Studies Program Epidemiology Center (CSPEC) applying network analysis to identify patterns of comorbid medical conditions was recently published in Scientific Reports.
  • Congratulations to Divya Natesan for receiving the Conquer Cancer ASCO Merit Award!
  • Congratulations to Sumi Sinha, Meera Garriga, Nishali Naik, and Brian McSteen on the publication of our study investigating patient portal enrollment among cancer patients in JAMA Oncology! This study was covered by the ASCO Post and Cancer Therapy Advisor.
  • Congratulations to Meera Garriga, Sumi Sinha, Nishali Naik, Sasha Yousefi, Brian McSteen, Clark Wang, and Jon Wang for their accepted presentations for the AMIA Informatics Summit!
  • Our natural language processing pipeline to extract patient symptoms during cancer radiotherapy from clinical notes was published in JAMIA Open.
  • Julian Hong participated as a panelist at the National Cancer Institute Webinar, Leveraging Clinical Narrative Text at Scale: Applying Natural Language Processing to Understand the Patient Care Experience (recording available online).
  • Our recent commentary with collaborators regarding the translation of machine learning to clinical cancer care was published in JAMA Oncology.
  • Congratulations to Susan Wu for her Best of ASTRO 2020 award!
  • Congratulations to Anthony Lin and Will Chen for their recently published book chapter in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine!
  • Congratulations to Jon Wang for his accepted presentation for the ASCO Quality Care Symposium!
  • Congratulations to Will Chen, Susan Wu, and Neville Eclov for their accepted presentations for ASTRO 2020!
  • Our new study on the variability of experts in identifying patient symptoms published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.