Research Colloquia
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Welcome to the Stanford Computational Medicine Colloquia series. Computational medicine is no longer a niche—it is a core driver of how we discover, evaluate, and deliver care. Yet its impact depends not only on technical innovation, but on shared understanding across disciplines. This series brings together those building computational approaches and those seeking to understand how they are reshaping biomedical research, clinical practice, and medical education. We invite you to join us online or in person to participate in discussions on cutting-edge advances and practical lessons in the field. Sign up for our mailing list here to stay up to date on the latest events!
Developing a National-Scale Rare Disease Screening Program Using Foundation Models
April 16, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Alison Callahan, PhD.
Research Scientist & Data Scientist
At
Stanford Division of Computational Medicine & Stanford Health Care
What a Language Model Remembers, What It Finds, and What It Has to Be Told
April 9, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Ian M. Campbell, MD, PhD.
Clinical Geneticist and Informaticist
& Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
& University of Pennsylvania
Colloquia Panel: Best Practices for Secondary Clinical Data Use Sharing or Accessibility
April 2, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speakers:
Jason Fries, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Medicine
Tina Hernandez-Boussard, PhD.
Associate Dean of Research & Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), of Biomedical Data Science, of Surgery and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health
Curt Langlotz, MD, PhD.
Professor of Radiology, Medicine, and Biomedical Data Science, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Research, & a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
At
Stanford University
Holistic Evaluation of Large Language Models for Medical Tasks with MedHELM
March 12, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Suhana Bedi
3rd Year Biomedical Data Science PhD Student
Stanford University
Towards the AI Doctor: Utah and Beyond
March 5, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Byron Crowe, MD, MSc.
Chief Medical Officer
Doctronic AI
Do Contemporary Advances in AI Require Change in the Fundamental ‘Theorem’ of Informatics?
February 26, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Charles P. Friedman, PhD.
Professor of Learning Health Sciences
University of Michigan Medical School
Advice for Those (Maybe) Interested in Starting a Company
February 19, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Alexander Morgan, MD, PhD.
Partner
Khosla Ventures
Predict, Prevent, Personalize – Health AI at Northwell Heath
February 12, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Theodoros Zanos, PhD.
Professor, Head - Division of Health AI, Head - Neural and Data Science Lab
Institute of Health System Science, Institute of Bioelectronic Medicine, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research & Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine