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:
- An energizing kick-off by Chancellor Sam Hawgood and a warm welcome by CRIO, Ida Sim
- Inspiring talks in the morning from Tony Capra external site (opens in a new window) , Sara Murray, external site (opens in a new window) Mark Pletcher, external site (opens in a new window) Sara Ackerman, and Juliana Friend external site (opens in a new window) .
- 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.
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
Organizing Committee
UCSF Chief Research Information Office external site (opens in a new window)
UCSF Bakar Institute for Computational Health Science external site (opens in a new window)
UCSF Center for Intelligent Imaging (ci2) external site (opens in a new window)
UCSF Clinical & Translational Science Institute external site (opens in a new window)
UCSF UC Berkeley Joint Program Computational Precision Health external site (opens in a new window)
UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics external site (opens in a new window)
Sponsors
- Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute external site (opens in a new window)
- Center for Intelligent Imaging external site (opens in a new window)
- Chief Research Informatics Office external site (opens in a new window)
- Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute external site (opens in a new window)
- Computational Precision Health external site (opens in a new window)
- Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation external site (opens in a new window)
- Innovation Ventures
- Research Development Office
- SOM Tech