2025 AMIA Annual Symposium

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We're thrilled to showcase the incredible expertise within our Division at this year’s AMIA Annual Symposium in Atlanta! Our DoC-IT faculty and staff will be sharing their cutting-edge research, innovative solutions, and valuable insights across numerous sessions throughout the conference. We invite you to join us at one—or several—of these sessions to connect, learn, and discuss our work.

Below, we've highlighted all the sessions with DoC-IT presenters. All DoC-IT presenters and authors appear in bold. We are proud of the breadth of impactful work our team is presenting. We can’t wait to see you there!

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Sessions Featuring UCSF-Affiliated Colleagues


Bolded names below are DoC-IT presenters.

Sunday, November 16, 2025 
Time (EST)  Title Presenter Location
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM

S37: Monitoring the Machines: Safety, Usefulness and AI Transparency in NLP

Oral Presentation

A Framework for Developing Metrics for AI Monitoring
 

A Framework for Developing Metrics for AI Monitoring

Speaker:
Jinoos Yazdany, MD MPH
UCSF

Authors:
Maria Byron, MD
University of California, San Francisco

Sarah Pollet, MPH
UCSF

Sarah Beck
UCSF

Rhiannon Croci, BSN, RN, NI-BC
UCSF

Orianna DeMasi, PhD
UCSF

Hossein Soleimani, PhD
UCSF

Robert Thombley
UCSF

M106/M107
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

S02: The Evolving Role of Health Information Organizations: Trends, Challenges and Future Prospects in the Face of National Networks

Panel

Moderator:
Vaishali Patel, PhD MPH
Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

Speakers:
Priscilla Owusu-Mensah, MPH
ASTP

Jordan Everson, PhD
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy

Wei Chang, MPH
ASTP

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, FACMI
UCSF School of Medicine

A705
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM

Poster Session 1

Leveraging Informatics Tools to Reduce Lab Overutilization

Speaker:
Anoop Muniyappa, MD, MS
UCSF

Authors:
Brandon Scott, MD, MBA
UCSF

Andrew Auerbach, MD, MPH
UCSF

Parul Bhargava, MD
UCSF

Armond Esmaili, MD
UCSF

Amy Lu, MD, MPH
UCSF

Sajan Patel, MD
UCSF

Theodore Peng, MD, MBA
UCSF

Caitlin Richards
UCSF

 

Effect of Physician-Directed Appointment Slots on EHR Workload: A Controlled Interrupted Time Series Study

Speaker:
Yu Sun, Master of Science
Yale

Author:
A J Holmgren, PhD
University of California, San Francisco

 

LLM-Assisted Translation and Interpretation of Discharge Instructions for Spanish-speaking Cardiology Patients

Speaker:
Eduardo Perez-Guerrero, MD
Stanford University

Authors:
Ramzi Dudum, MD, MPH
UCSF

Akshay Chaudhari, PhD
Stanford University

Nicole Corso, MS
Stanford University

Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD
Stanford University

Jason Hom, MD
Stanford University

Sneha Jain, MD, MBA
Stanford University

Sergio Perez
University of Puerto Rico

Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH
Stanford University

Christine Santiago, MD, MPH
Stanford University

International Ballroom (Posters)

Monday, November 17, 2025 

Time (EST) 

Title 

Presenter 

Location 

9:45 AM – 11:00 AM

S22: Deploying Large Language Model Features in Health Systems: Lessons from the Front Lines

 

Panel 

Speakers:
Brian Patterson, MD MPH
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ashley Beecy, MD
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

Yasir Tarabichi, MD, MSCR
MetroHealth

Sara Murray, MD, MAS
UCSF

A707

9:45 AM – 11:00 AM

S28: Beyond the Ping: Redesigning Digital Health Messages for Equity and Impact

Oral Presentation

Evaluating the Adoption of Billing Patient Messages as ‘E-Visits’ and Impact on Physician Burnout
 

Speaker:
Sarah Rosenthal, BA
Harvard University

Authors:

Maria Byron, MD
University of California, San Francisco

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, FACMI
UCSF School of Medicine

A J Holmgren, PhD
University of California, San Francisco

M101

2:00 PM – 3:15 PM

 

S32: iAgree: A Decentralized Consent Management Platform for Patient-Controlled Sharing of Electronic Health Records Data for Research

 

Panel 

Moderator:
Mary Whooley, MD
University of California, San Francisco

Speakers:
Tsung-Ting Kuo, PhD
Yale University

Kai Zheng, PhD
University of California, Irvine

Andrey Soares, PhD
University of Colorado School of Medicine

An Nguyen, OTD, OTR/L
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

A702

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Time (EST) 

Title 

Presenter 

Location 

2:00 PM – 3:15 PM 

S75: How Should We Oversee AI in Medicine to Ensure Safety and Facilitate Innovation?

Panel 

How Should We Oversee AI in Medicine To Ensure Safety and Facilitate Innovation?
 

Moderator:
GARY WEISSMAN, MD, MSHP
University of Pennsylvania

Speakers:
Daniel Herman, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, FACMI
UCSF School of Medicine

Nicoleta Economou-Zavlanos, Ph.D.
Duke University

GARY WEISSMAN, MD, MSHP
University of Pennsylvania

A706
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM 

S76: CTRL+ALT+EQUITY: Rebooting Clinical System Design

Oral Presentation

Multi-Adversarial Debiasing in Clinical Artificial Intelligence
 

Speaker:
Md Rahat Shahriar Zawad, MS Student
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Author:
Peter Washington, PhD
University of California, San Francisco

Irene Y Chen, PhD
University of California, Berkeley

Atrium Ballroom A
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM 

S79: Adventures in Data Completeness, Concordance, and Policy

Oral Presentation

The Impact of the HITECH Act on Health IT Innovation
 

Speaker:
Nate Apathy, PhD
University of Maryland

Author:
A J Holmgren, PhD
University of California, San Francisco

M106/M107
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

S85: AI Scribes 2.0: New Settings, New Clinican Types, New Capabilities

Panel

Moderator:
Sara Murray, MD, MAS
UCSF

Speakers:
Maria Byron, MD
University of California, San Francisco

Rebecca Mishuris, MD, MS, MPH
Mass General Brigham

Vincent Liu, MD, MSc
Kaiser Permanente

Michael Pfeffer, MD
Stanford Medicine

A702
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

S90: Designing Decisions: Optimizing Clinical Decision Support Through AI and User Insight

Oral Presentation

Patient Perspectives About Deployment of AI Decision Support Tools in a Safety-Net Healthcare System

Speaker:
Patrick Vossler, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco

Authors:
Lucas Zier, MD, MS
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, FACMI
UCSF School of Medicine

Susan Ehrlich
ZSFG / UCSF

Jean Feng, PhD, MS
UCSF

Arturo Gasga
UCSF

Seth Goldman
ZSFG/UCSF

Hemal Kanzaria, MD
UCSF / ZSFG

Avni Kothari, MS
UCSF

Paige Nong, PhD
University of Minnesota

Patrick Phelps
University of California, San Francisco

Katherine Steineman
UCSF

M106/M107
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

S95: From Theory to Practice: How FAMIA Leaders Are Modernizing Informatics Across the Spectrum

Panel

Moderator:
Allison McCoy, PhD, ACHIP, FACMI, FAMIA
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Speakers:
Subha Airan-Javia, MD
Penn Medicine

Prerna Dua, PhD
University of Missouri-Kansas City

Fang Li, MD, MS, FAMIA
Pfizer Inc.

David Liebovitz, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Benjamin Rosner, MD, PhD, FAMIA
UCSF

M106/107

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Poster Session 3

Posters 

Enhancing Equity and Efficiency: AI-Powered Eligibility Assessment for Adult Complex Care

Speaker:
Sara Faghihi Kashani, MD, MPH
UCSF

Author:
Abimbola Fadairo-Azinge, MD
UCSF

Timothy Judson, MD, MPH
UCSF

Xinran Liu, MD
UCSF

Joshua Munday, MSN, MPH, RN, FNP
UCSF

 

Second Signs and Wrong Patient Orders–a Natural Experiment

Speaker:
Sophia Hsu, High School Diploma
University of California, San Francisco

Author:
Raman Khanna, MD, MAS
University of California, San Francisco

International Ballroom (Posters)

Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Time (EST) Title Presenter Location
8:00 AM – 9:15 AM

S101: Closing the Loop: Informatics Strategies for Clinical Quality and Patient Safety

Oral Presentation

Differences in Physician EHR Use by Telemedicine Intensity: Evidence from Two Academic Medical Centers

Speaker:
A J Holmgren, PhD
University of California, San Francisco

Authors:
Robert Thombley
UCSF

Seunghwan Kim, PhD
Washington University in St. Louis

Sunny Lou, MD, PhD
Washington University, St. Louis

Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, FACMI
UCSF School of Medicine

Elise Eiden
Washington University in St. Louis

Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, FAMIA
Washington University School of Medicine

 

Reducing Excessive Continuous Pulse Oximetry and Promoting Patient Safety: An Electronic Health Record-Based Quality Improvement Effort

Speaker:
Justin Zhang, MD
University of California, San Francisco

Authors:
Raman Khanna, MD, MAS
University of California, San Francisco

 

A705
9:45 AM – 11:00 AM

S109: Scaling AI Monitoring in Clinical Care: Platforms, Processes, and Problems

Panel

Moderator:
Sara Murray, MD, MAS
UCSF

Speakers:
Mark Sendak, MD, MPP
Duke Institute for Health Innovation

Peter Embi, MD
VUMC

Marylyn Ritchie, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine

Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH
UCSF

A707

 


About the UCSF Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT)
DoC-IT serves as the academic home for applied clinical informatics researchers within the UCSF Department of Medicine. We also serve as a coordinating entity with key internal and external digital stakeholders across all UCSF mission areas, schools, departments, and divisions. Clinical informatics is approached as a multidisciplinary field that involves the use of technology by a broad spectrum of health professionals, patients, and other stakeholders.

Contact
Mika Rivera, Director of Communications
[email protected]

Follow Us
X (formerly Twitter):
@CLIIR_UCSF
@UCSF_DoCIT

LinkedIn:
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Add to Calendar 2025-11-15 16:00:00 2025-11-20 01:00:00 2025 AMIA Annual Symposium We're thrilled to showcase the incredible expertise within our Division at this year’s AMIA Annual Symposium in Atlanta! Our DoC-IT faculty and staff will be sharing their cutting-edge research, innovative solutions, and valuable insights across numerous sessions throughout the conference. We invite you to join us at one—or several—of these sessions to connect, learn, and discuss our work. Below, we've highlighted all the sessions with DoC-IT presenters. All DoC-IT presenters and authors appear in bold. We are proud of the breadth of impactful work our team is presenting. We can’t wait to see you there! Download the DoC-IT AMIA presentations brochure __ Sessions Featuring UCSF-Affiliated Colleagues Bolded names below are DoC-IT presenters. Sunday, November 16, 2025  Time (EST)  Title Presenter Location 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM S37: Monitoring the Machines: Safety, Usefulness and AI Transparency in NLP Oral Presentation A Framework for Developing Metrics for AI Monitoring   A Framework for Developing Metrics for AI Monitoring Speaker: Jinoos Yazdany, MD MPH UCSF Authors: Maria Byron, MD University of California, San Francisco Sarah Pollet, MPH UCSF Sarah Beck UCSF Rhiannon Croci, BSN, RN, NI-BC UCSF Orianna DeMasi, PhD UCSF Hossein Soleimani, PhD UCSF Robert Thombley UCSF M106/M107 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM S02: The Evolving Role of Health Information Organizations: Trends, Challenges and Future Prospects in the Face of National Networks Panel Moderator: Vaishali Patel, PhD MPH Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Speakers: Priscilla Owusu-Mensah, MPH ASTP Jordan Everson, PhD Office of the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy Wei Chang, MPH ASTP Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, FACMI UCSF School of Medicine A705 5:45 PM – 7:00 PM Poster Session 1 Leveraging Informatics Tools to Reduce Lab Overutilization Speaker: Anoop Muniyappa, MD, MS UCSF Authors: Brandon Scott, MD, MBA UCSF Andrew Auerbach, MD, MPH UCSF Parul Bhargava, MD UCSF Armond Esmaili, MD UCSF Amy Lu, MD, MPH UCSF Sajan Patel, MD UCSF Theodore Peng, MD, MBA UCSF Caitlin Richards UCSF   Effect of Physician-Directed Appointment Slots on EHR Workload: A Controlled Interrupted Time Series Study Speaker: Yu Sun, Master of Science Yale Author: A J Holmgren, PhD University of California, San Francisco   LLM-Assisted Translation and Interpretation of Discharge Instructions for Spanish-speaking Cardiology Patients Speaker: Eduardo Perez-Guerrero, MD Stanford University Authors: Ramzi Dudum, MD, MPH UCSF Akshay Chaudhari, PhD Stanford University Nicole Corso, MS Stanford University Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD Stanford University Jason Hom, MD Stanford University Sneha Jain, MD, MBA Stanford University Sergio Perez University of Puerto Rico Fatima Rodriguez, MD, MPH Stanford University Christine Santiago, MD, MPH Stanford University International Ballroom (Posters) Monday, November 17, 2025  Time (EST)  Title  Presenter  Location  9:45 AM – 11:00 AM S22: Deploying Large Language Model Features in Health Systems: Lessons from the Front Lines   Panel  Speakers: Brian Patterson, MD MPH University of Wisconsin-Madison Ashley Beecy, MD NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Yasir Tarabichi, MD, MSCR MetroHealth Sara Murray, MD, MAS UCSF A707 9:45 AM – 11:00 AM S28: Beyond the Ping: Redesigning Digital Health Messages for Equity and Impact Oral Presentation Evaluating the Adoption of Billing Patient Messages as ‘E-Visits’ and Impact on Physician Burnout   Speaker: Sarah Rosenthal, BA Harvard University Authors: Maria Byron, MD University of California, San Francisco Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, FACMI UCSF School of Medicine A J Holmgren, PhD University of California, San Francisco M101 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM   S32: iAgree: A Decentralized Consent Management Platform for Patient-Controlled Sharing of Electronic Health Records Data for Research   Panel  Moderator: Mary Whooley, MD University of California, San Francisco Speakers: Tsung-Ting Kuo, PhD Yale University Kai Zheng, PhD University of California, Irvine Andrey Soares, PhD University of Colorado School of Medicine An Nguyen, OTD, OTR/L Cedars-Sinai Medical Center A702 Tuesday, November 18, 2025 Time (EST)  Title  Presenter  Location  2:00 PM – 3:15 PM  S75: How Should We Oversee AI in Medicine to Ensure Safety and Facilitate Innovation? Panel  How Should We Oversee AI in Medicine To Ensure Safety and Facilitate Innovation?   Moderator: GARY WEISSMAN, MD, MSHP University of Pennsylvania Speakers: Daniel Herman, MD, PhD University of Pennsylvania Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, FACMI UCSF School of Medicine Nicoleta Economou-Zavlanos, Ph.D. Duke University GARY WEISSMAN, MD, MSHP University of Pennsylvania A706 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM  S76: CTRL+ALT+EQUITY: Rebooting Clinical System Design Oral Presentation Multi-Adversarial Debiasing in Clinical Artificial Intelligence   Speaker: Md Rahat Shahriar Zawad, MS Student University of Hawaii at Manoa Author: Peter Washington, PhD University of California, San Francisco Irene Y Chen, PhD University of California, Berkeley Atrium Ballroom A 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM  S79: Adventures in Data Completeness, Concordance, and Policy Oral Presentation The Impact of the HITECH Act on Health IT Innovation   Speaker: Nate Apathy, PhD University of Maryland Author: A J Holmgren, PhD University of California, San Francisco M106/M107 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM S85: AI Scribes 2.0: New Settings, New Clinican Types, New Capabilities Panel Moderator: Sara Murray, MD, MAS UCSF Speakers: Maria Byron, MD University of California, San Francisco Rebecca Mishuris, MD, MS, MPH Mass General Brigham Vincent Liu, MD, MSc Kaiser Permanente Michael Pfeffer, MD Stanford Medicine A702 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM S90: Designing Decisions: Optimizing Clinical Decision Support Through AI and User Insight Oral Presentation Patient Perspectives About Deployment of AI Decision Support Tools in a Safety-Net Healthcare System Speaker: Patrick Vossler, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco Authors: Lucas Zier, MD, MS Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, FACMI UCSF School of Medicine Susan Ehrlich ZSFG / UCSF Jean Feng, PhD, MS UCSF Arturo Gasga UCSF Seth Goldman ZSFG/UCSF Hemal Kanzaria, MD UCSF / ZSFG Avni Kothari, MS UCSF Paige Nong, PhD University of Minnesota Patrick Phelps University of California, San Francisco Katherine Steineman UCSF M106/M107 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM S95: From Theory to Practice: How FAMIA Leaders Are Modernizing Informatics Across the Spectrum Panel Moderator: Allison McCoy, PhD, ACHIP, FACMI, FAMIA Vanderbilt University Medical Center Speakers: Subha Airan-Javia, MD Penn Medicine Prerna Dua, PhD University of Missouri-Kansas City Fang Li, MD, MS, FAMIA Pfizer Inc. David Liebovitz, MD Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Benjamin Rosner, MD, PhD, FAMIA UCSF M106/107 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Poster Session 3 Posters  Enhancing Equity and Efficiency: AI-Powered Eligibility Assessment for Adult Complex Care Speaker: Sara Faghihi Kashani, MD, MPH UCSF Author: Abimbola Fadairo-Azinge, MD UCSF Timothy Judson, MD, MPH UCSF Xinran Liu, MD UCSF Joshua Munday, MSN, MPH, RN, FNP UCSF   Second Signs and Wrong Patient Orders–a Natural Experiment Speaker: Sophia Hsu, High School Diploma University of California, San Francisco Author: Raman Khanna, MD, MAS University of California, San Francisco International Ballroom (Posters) Wednesday, November 19, 2025 Time (EST) Title Presenter Location 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM S101: Closing the Loop: Informatics Strategies for Clinical Quality and Patient Safety Oral Presentation Differences in Physician EHR Use by Telemedicine Intensity: Evidence from Two Academic Medical Centers Speaker: A J Holmgren, PhD University of California, San Francisco Authors: Robert Thombley UCSF Seunghwan Kim, PhD Washington University in St. Louis Sunny Lou, MD, PhD Washington University, St. Louis Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, FACMI UCSF School of Medicine Elise Eiden Washington University in St. Louis Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, FAMIA Washington University School of Medicine   Reducing Excessive Continuous Pulse Oximetry and Promoting Patient Safety: An Electronic Health Record-Based Quality Improvement Effort Speaker: Justin Zhang, MD University of California, San Francisco Authors: Raman Khanna, MD, MAS University of California, San Francisco   A705 9:45 AM – 11:00 AM S109: Scaling AI Monitoring in Clinical Care: Platforms, Processes, and Problems Panel Moderator: Sara Murray, MD, MAS UCSF Speakers: Mark Sendak, MD, MPP Duke Institute for Health Innovation Peter Embi, MD VUMC Marylyn Ritchie, PhD University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH UCSF A707   About the UCSF Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) DoC-IT serves as the academic home for applied clinical informatics researchers within the UCSF Department of Medicine. We also serve as a coordinating entity with key internal and external digital stakeholders across all UCSF mission areas, schools, departments, and divisions. Clinical informatics is approached as a multidisciplinary field that involves the use of technology by a broad spectrum of health professionals, patients, and other stakeholders. Contact Mika Rivera, Director of Communications [email protected] Follow Us X (formerly Twitter): @CLIIR_UCSF @UCSF_DoCIT LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ucsf-doc-it   Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation America/Los_Angeles public