
Ashley Pournamdari
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Incoming @UCLA Heme/Onc Fellow @UCLAIM @UCSFMed // lover of R, python, saffron, cardamom & Hafez
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13-01-2017 06:29:06
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Massively troubling example of politics trumping science: federal government threatens to shut down research UC San Francisco that has been responsible for crucial advances in #HIV/#AIDS treatments wapo.st/2roAVTD The Washington Post NIH @NIHDirector @NancyPelosi @AAMCNews



Great turnout for Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science Regulatory Science Student Symposium at Harvard Business School! Introduction and welcome from Ariel Dora Stern @HBSHealth!


Kudos to my UCSF School of Medicine colleagues: #1 (again) in NIH grants to Schools of Medicine. Our Dept. of Medicine also remains #1 among DOMs, with >$200M in NIH support. Real tribute to our UC San Francisco faculty, trainees & staff



Participant applications for MIT Hacking Medicine Grand Hack 2019 are now open. Join hundreds of others in solving some of our most pressing healthcare issues on May 3-5 at the Media Lab! grandhack.mit.edu/participant-ap…

Machine learning cheat sheets: bit.ly/2Lk46yL (credit: Shervine Amidi and Afshine Amidi) #BigData #DataScience #DeepLearning #AI #Algorithms #machinelearning


A commercial algorithm used to identify high risk patients for allocation of healthcare resources carried significant racial bias. Work from Ziad Obermeyer, 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧, BrianPowers, & Christine Vogeli demonstrating the importance of careful label selection: science.sciencemag.org/content/366/64…

Please show your support for this petition started by Dr. Ushma Neill and Ruslan Medzhitov Scientists: Support for the innovation engine of American science: immigrants - Sign the Petition! chng.it/QfvxSGV9 via Change.org