March 17th 2025 UCSF Research AI Day

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Overview

Transforming biomedical science and healthcare through artificial intelligence

Highlights for UCSF Research AI Day, March 17th 2025

We had over 300 attendees, 70 submitted posters, and 22+ speakers, facilitators, and volunteers.  We are so grateful for everyone’s participation. 

Highlights from the day included:

Chancellor Hawgood Opening Research AI Day

  • An energizing kick-off by Chancellor Sam Hawgood and a warm welcome by CRIO, Ida Sim
  • Inspiring talks in the morning from Tony Capra, Sara Murray, Mark Pletcher, Sara Ackerman, and Juliana Friend.
  • Deep dives into research being done at UCSF including:
    • Discovery science track talks by Jamie Fraser, Jimme Ye, Christina Theodoris with a lively moderated discussion by Tony Capra
    • Interesting case studies from the Health Systems track featuring Hossein Solemani, Priya Ramaswamy, Andrew Bishara, Lucas Zier Adam Yala/Maggie Chung, and Jinoos Yazdany. Julia Adler- Milsteing led a panel discussion rich with advice for future practitioners
    • Packed presentations in the Population Health track by Jean Feng, Irene Cheng, Urmimala Sakar/Michale Denier and Kim Rhoads. Organized by Yulin Hswen and helpfully moderated by Jean, the audience engaged the panel in a wide-ranging discussion.
  • The afternoon began with a phenomenal keynote by Marylin Richie followed by lively round-table discussions.
  • We also had two interesting talks on novel methods by Yun Song and Maya Petersen and finished the formal program with a whirlwind tour of UCSF resources, data and computing available with Sharat Israni, Gundolf Shenk and Rick Larsen (our closing keynote).
  • Happy hour and 70 posters kept many of us there well past the 5 p.m. closing time. 

Research AI Day Poster Session

 

Stay tuned for video recording of the morning sessions. 

 

 

 

Detailed Agenda

9 a.m.-10:10 am Opening Session

Welcome by Chancellor Sam Hawgood, overview of the day, highlights from the opportunities at UCSF to transform biomedical sciences and healthcare through artificial intelligence equitably and ethically.

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Break Out Tracks (3 concurrent tracks on current efforts at UCSF)

  • Discovery Sciences
  • Health Systems
  • Population Health

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. Keynote by Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD, FACMI

2:30-3:00 Round Table Talks 

3:10 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. Overview of Resources

  • Data and Compute
  • Methods and Models

4:10 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Poster Sessions and Happy Hour

 

Keynote Speaker - Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD, FACMI

Marylyn D. Ritchie, PhD, FACMI,

Dr. Marylyn D. Ritchie is the inaugural Vice Dean of Artificial Intelligence and Computing for the Perelman School of Medicine, a Professor of Genetics, and Director of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is also Co-Director of the Penn Medicine BioBank and Vice President of Research Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Dr. Ritchie is an expert in translational bioinformatics, with a focus on developing, applying, and disseminating algorithms, methods, and tools integrating electronic health records (EHR) with genomics. 
 
Dr. Ritchie is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. She has been recognized for paradigm-changing research demonstrating the utility of electronic health records for identifying clinical diseases or phenotypes that can be integrated with genomic data from biobanks for genomic medicine discovery and implementation science. Her lab develops and applies a breadth of translational bioinformatics approaches exploring the genome, the phenome, and the exposome to improve our understanding of the underlying architecture of common, complex diseases and advance toward the implementation of precision medicine.
 


 

Organizing Committee

UCSF Chief Research Information Office

UCSF Bakar Institute for Computational Health Science

UCSF Center for Intelligent Imaging (ci2)

UCSF Clinical & Translational Science Institute 

UCSF Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation, Department of Medicine

UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program Computational Precision Health 

UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

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