News & Events
Feb 2025
Congratulations to our first-year clinical informatics fellows, Bethel R. Mieso, MD, Aydin Zahedivash, and Kameron B., who along with UCSF Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) fellows, put on a stellar Bay Area Medical Informatics Society Symposium on February 3!
Also a shout out to 2nd-year fellow Shivam Vedak MD, MBA for co-hosting another amazing prompt engineering workshop at the symposium!
Thanks as always to BAMIS’ fearless leader, Justin V. Graham, MD MS for bringing this group together!
Dec 2024
Outstanding Prompt Engineering Workshop! Led by Clinical Informatics Fellows Shivam Vedak MD, MBA and Dong-han Yao, MD, hosted by Stanford Children's Health | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford.
Another example of Clinical Informatics leading the way to bring AI into healthcare.
Oct 2024
Our CI fellows Dong-han Yao, MD and Shivam Vedak MD, MBA have become national experts in prompt engineering for LLMs in healthcare! They have led several workshops including a standing-room-only session at AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) CIC this past May, a session at UCSF last month, and a grand rounds at UCLA last week!
Dr. Yao will be leading another session at the Stanford EM Innovation Symposium on October 17! Keep your eyes peeled 👀 for additional opportunities to learn how to use LLMs in practice.
July 2024
We've come so far! Amazing to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Stanford Clinical Informatics Fellowship with so many alumni, faculty, and friends. Thanks Chris Longhurst for the inspiration & push to start this journey! And thanks to our OG faculty Jonathan Palma Christopher Sharp Todd Ferris Matthew Eisenberg MD FAAP Nigam Shah for all their hard work to create our original curriculum. Thanks to leadership across Stanford University School of Medicine for their vision and trust 10 years ago (Atul Butte Mary Leonard Robert A. Harrington Russ Altman Lloyd Minor Dennis Lund Ed Kopetsky). Thanks to our pioneering fellows Veena Jones and N. Lance Downing, MD for their leap of faith. Thanks to the other early CI Fellowships who helped us pave this path together (Oregon Health & Science University, Regenstrief Institute, Inc., University of Illinois Chicago ). Thanks to the ongoing support of Michael Pfeffer Tanya Townsend MSMI, CHCIO, CDH-E Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford Health Care Stanford Children's Health | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford as we head into our next decade. And thanks to our MANY, MANY additional supporters along the way! Here's to many more years of excellence and innovation ahead with our new fellowship leadership (who happen to be alums) Keith Morse, Nymisha Chilukuri, & Ron Li!
We're so excited to welcome our new first year Stanford Clinical Informatics fellows who started their fellowship last week!
Kameron B. - Kameron Black is our internal medicine fellow and joins us from OHSU. He has extensive experience in informatics and medical education, including starting the nation’s first longitudinal curriculum to train medical students in digital health.
Bethel R. Mieso, MD - Bethel joins us following completion of pediatric residency here at Stanford Children's Health | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. She has experience researching the impact of mobile phone applications to support breastfeeding and held various roles supporting diversity in medical education, including completion of the LEAD program.
Aydin Zahedivash - Aydin completed his pediatric residency and chief year here at Stanford Children’s. During residency he served as a Clinical Informatics Resident Liaison and studied the utility of Apple Health Watch to diagnose arrhythmias in pediatric patients.
June 2024
As we approach the 10-year anniversary of the Stanford Clinical Informatics Fellowship, we want to thank Dean Lloyd Minor and all of Stanford University School of Medicine for the support to become one of the oldest, largest, and most successful programs in the nation. Last week, the fellows enjoyed a thought-provoking conversation with the Dean about the future of healthcare, the role of expert physician informaticists in shaping that future, and medical education in the AI era.
Nymisha Chilukuri, MD received the GME Award for Promoting Health Equity which recognizes a resident and a fellow that have promoted health equity through research, community engagement, and/or involvement in social advocacy for marginalized communities. Dr. Chilukuri was selected for the award for her impactful and innovative work on improving MyChart activation rates for pediatric families with Spanish as their preferred language; creating a direct referral system from within Epic to the Second Harvest Food Bank to streamline the process of connecting patient families to essential resources; and her use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve interpreter translation workflows, thereby enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of translation services and making healthcare more accessible and inclusive.
AMIA 2024 Clinical Informatics Conference
AMIA’s Clinical Informatics Conference is our fastest-growing conference, gathering clinical informaticians for three days dedicated to turning innovation into practice-ready solutions that make an immediate impact on patient care.
The Clinical Informatics program had a strong showing at AMIA CIC this year.
See below for the list of presentations by our faculty and fellows:
Chadwick, Whitney (2024, May 22) . Unlocking Pediatric Medication Safety: Synergistic Partnerships and Industry Collaboration [Oral Presentation]. AMIA CIC, Minneapollis, MN.
Chilukuri, Nymisha. (2024, May 23). Improving Patient Portal Activation Rates for Pediatric Families with Spanish as Preferred Language [Oral Presentation]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN.
Larimer, Emily; Shamseldin, Sharon. (2024, May 22). Building an Electronic Chemotherapy Roadmap Application [Poster]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN
Lee, Julie. (2024, May 23). Evaluating the Impact of Electronic Medical Record Integration of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program in California: A Comparative Study on Reliability, Workflow Efficiency, and User Experience in Addressing the Opioid Crisis [Oral Presentation]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN.
Liang, April. (2024, May 22). GPT-4 vs NLP: Enhancing Confidentiality in Adolescent Health Portals by Automated Detection on Inappropriate Guardian Access [Oral Presentation]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN.
Liang, April. (2024, May 23). Smartalert: Designing a machine learning-driven clinical alert based on provider attitudes [Oral Presentation]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN.
Ma, Stephen. (2024, May 22). AI-Generated Draft Replies to Patient Inbox Messages: Barriers to Adoption [Oral Presentation]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN
Ma, Stephen. (2024, May 22). Early use of AI-Generated Draft Replies for Patient Messages - Adoption and Clinician Experience [Oral Presentation]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN
Pageler, Natalie; Hollberg J; Fu, P; Safdar, N (2024, May 21). CMIO/CHIO Leadership Workshop [Workshop]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN.
Pageler, Natalie; Woeltke, K; Fu, P; Gordon, J; Kothapeta, V; Sorrentino, A (2024, May 23). AI in Clinical Care: Hype or Helpful [Panel]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN.
Sarabu, Chethan, Petersen, C, Cullen, T, Burdick, T, Rosenbloom, S.T, (2024, May 22). Clinical Informatics In Action: Adapting to Climate Change [Panel]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN.
Stevens, Lindsay (2024, May 22). Increasing the Number of Provider-led EHR Improvements with Maintenance of Certification Incentives [Poster]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN
Vedak, Shivam. (2024, May 22). Optimization of EHR Handoff Tool for Inpatient Internal Medicine Services [Poster]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN
Vedak, Shivam; Yao, Dong-han, Genkins, Julian (2024, May 21). Prompt Engineering 101: Evidence-Based Practices for your Health System [Workshop]. AMIA CIC, Minneapolis, MN