Colloquia Archive
2025 - 2026
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
The Causal Effect of Herpes Zoster Vaccination on New Dementia Diagnoses
February 5, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speakers: Richard Haarburger, PhD.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University, Department of Medicine
Michael Pomirchy, PhD.
Social Science Research Scholar
Stanford University, Department of Medicine
Recording Unavailable
A Unified Molecular Framework for Quantifying Immune Dysregulation Across Health, Diseases, and Treatment Response
January 29, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Purvesh Khatri, PhD.
Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics - Research Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection)
Stanford University, School of Medicine
Recording Available
Precision Medicine for Hospital Care: From Bedside Insight to Clinical Impact
January 22, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Tim Sweeney, MD, PhD.
Co-Founder and CEO
Inflammatix
Recording Available
Presenting the 2026 State of Clinical AI Report
January 15, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speakers: Peter Brodeur MD, MA.
Rising Cardiology Fellow
Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Liam McCoy. MD, MSc.
Neurology Resident Physician (PGY-4)
University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Recording Available
Artificial Intelligence Systems to Advance Engineered T-cell Immunotherapy Designs
January 8, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Zinaida Good, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Immunology and Rheumatology
Stanford University, School of Medicine
Recording Available
An Exploration into 3 Applications of AI to Enhance (Medical) Learning
December 4, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speakers: Sharon Fei-Hsien Chen, MD, MS.
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Faculty Development Chief, Infectious Disease
& Co-director PIDPIC At Stanford University School of Medicine & Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
Flora Mah, PhD.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences & Clinical Psychologist At Stanford University School of Medicine & Stanford Health Care
Reenan Oliveira, MD, PhD.
Emergency Physician and Faculty Member & Research Associate At São Leopoldo Mandic Medical School & Stanford University
Recording Available
Diagnostic reasoning, Error, and Intelligence—Human and Artificial
November 20, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Laura Zwaan, PhD.
Associate Professor
Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam (iMERR), Erasmus MC
Recording Available
From Bytes to Bedside: Evolution of the Queensland Health AI Sepsis Prediction Algorithm (QSA)
November 13, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speakers: Anton Van Der Vegt, PhD.
Research Fellow,
Ian Scott, MBBS, FRACP, MHA, MEd.
Professor, Faculty of Medicine
The University of Queensland
Recording Available
Mathematical Analysis of Medical Decisions – Evaluation of Cervical Cancer Screening Protocols
November 6, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Michael Higgins, PhD.
Adjunct Professor
Stanford University, Department of Medicine
Recording Available
MedVAL: Toward Expert-Level Medical Text Validation with Language Models
October 30, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Asad Aali, MS.
Research Data Analyst, Rad/Intergrative Biomedical Imagaing Language
Stanford University, School of Medicine
Recording Available
Comet Deep Dive: Generative Modeling for Improving Patient Outcomes
October 23, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Shane Waxler
Software Developer & Lead, Comet Team
Epic Systems
Recording Unavailable
Precision Education in the AI Era
October 16, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Jesse Burk-Rafel, MD, MRes.
Assistant Professor of Medicine & Vice Chair for Research and Assistant Director, Institute for Innovations in Medical Education & Director, Precision Medical Education Laboratory
New York University, Grossman School of Medicine
Recording Available
Applied Intelligence: Integrating AI Technologies Into Medical Education
October 9, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Laurah Turner, PhD.
Associate Dean for Artificial Intelligence and Educational Informatics & Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Health Informatics and Data Sciences and Medical Education
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Recording Available
Rigor and Reproducibility of Evidence Generated from Real-world Data Platforms
October 2, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: Manisha Desai, PhD.
Kim and Ping Li Professor, Professor (Research) of Medicine (Quantitative Sciences Unit), of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health
Stanford University School of Medicine
Recording Available
AI Agents to Automate Biomedical Discoveries
September 25, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00pm
Speaker: James Zou, PhD.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by Courtesy, of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
Recording Available



















