MED277 | CS337 - AI-Assisted Health Care
Fall 2025
Overview
Today, anyone can train a near state-of-the-art machine learning model with a laptop, a dataset, and a few lines of code. For many applications, model building is no longer the rate-limiting step in using AI and machine learning to improve human health. In this course, we examine the other areas that need to be addressed -- from choosing the right problem, to moving technical advances into the clinical setting and making sure we are actually improving outcomes that matter. This course is geared toward anyone who is looking to use AI and machine learning to make a real-world positive impact on human health. Students from all schools welcome. The course can be taken for 1 unit (lecture attendance/participation) or 2-4 units, which will include a project component.
Instructors
PhD, Faculty
MD, PhD, Faculty
PhD, Faculty
MD, MPH, Faculty
Grad Student
Organizers
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Schedule
All classes are hybrid -- in-person and zoom.
| 9/26/25 | CoDa Room B90 | AI for Health: what does success look like? Amit Kaushal, MD, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, VA Palo Alto | |
| 10/3/25 | CoDa Room B90 | TBD Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Dermatology | |
| 10/10/25 | CoDa Room B90 | Developing effective algorithms and evaluating their performance Zane Durante, PhD Candidate | |
Project teams and mentors assigned | |||
| 10/17/25 | CoDa Room B90 | TBD | |
| 10/24/25 | CoDa Room B90 | TBD Graham Walker, MD, Co-director of Advanced Development, The Permanente Medical Group | |
| 10/31/25 | CoDa Room B90 | TBD Patrick van Nieuwenhuizen, MD, Clinical AI Researcher, Ambience Healthcare | |
| 11/7/25 | CoDa Room B90 | TBD Amit Kaushal MD PhD; Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, PhD | |
Project milestone | |||
| 11/14/25 | CoDa Room B90 | TBD Kimberly Powell, Vice President, Healthcare, NVIDIA | |
| 11/21/25 | CoDa Room B90 | TBD Ehsan Adeli, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Biomedical Data Science | |
Sign up for presentations | |||
| 11/28/25 | Thanksgiving - no lecture | ||
| 12/5/25 | CoDa Room B90 | Project/Final | |
| 12/12/25 | Project/Final - NO CLASS THIS WEEK | ||
Grading
1 unit: weekly seminar attendance
2-4 units: project participation
