Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD

I’ve started an AI in healthcare starter pack! Let me know who is missing. go.bsky.app/7PeNwep

My 10 year old niece was watching TV, and there was a travel ad. Someone asked her if she would like to visit there. She replied, “This is probably all fake. I can’t trust the world.” This is the world generative AI is creating.

Be careful with using AI to craft your personal statements. AI-based statements begin to sound REALLY similar (the tone, wording, etc is really similar). This will cause your readers to zone out. The fresh voice of an AI-less personal statement, on the other hand, will snap them out of it.

We are learning firsthand how easy it is to destroy things. It will take decades to rebuild what we have lost. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Seven year old said to her dad, “I don’t want your idea to be part of my project. I want to be independent.” 😂

AI in Clinical Science - amazing data being presented today by @jason-fries.bsky.social Sylvia Plevritis @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social @akshay-chaudhari.bsky.social but still feel like we are just barely cracking the egg in this field. So impatient for the omelette…! @stanford-cancer.bsky.social

Game over. The 21 month old knows what tahdig is and demands it by name when he sees me having a piece. Between him and the six year old, my tahdig eating days are over.

“I believe attachment is the root of all suffering.” Sir, we are at a SuperCuts.

One of my six year old’s classmates was encouraging her saying, “There’s no such thing as fear. It’s all in your mind.” Kids these days are 6 going on 60.

As we talk more about the use of LLMs by both the general public and professionals for high risk tasks like healthcare... there's one thing I don't see mentioned as often, which is sycophancy. Sycophancy occurs when LLMs sacrifice truthfulness for user agreement. arxiv.org/pdf/2502.08177

Today I went on a Stanford sponsored grant writing retreat for junior faculty. Given the constant assault on academia, the mood was muted but at least we got beautiful views.

Not my 19 month old son saying “all done” as I was kissing his chubby cheeks over and over again.

On call this weekend and time for the wise @misharosenbach.bsky.social pearl. “Any erosion in the hospital is HSV or VZV until proven otherwise.” So as I tell the residents: always swab!

They continue to do whatever they can to block and discredit science. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Heard from #CHIL2025 panel: VC doesn’t want to fund high risk work (one VC even said “write a R01 grant). That’s what NIH grants are supposed to be. Without that, we won’t be able to do the high risk work that leads to innovation and companies.

Remembering @atulbutte.bsky.social at #CHIL2025. The world lost an amazing light and mentor. He helped shape my career and the careers of many others in the medical informatics and medical AI space.

We are kicking off #CHIL2025 with Dr. Maia Hightower. As a program organizer, we are showing our values by centering health equity and responsible AI. @ahli-cc.bsky.social

I was very excited to be part of the team that put this together!

My daughter loves old school magic school bus, and I can’t help but wonder what Arnold becomes when he grows up…

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

It’s not too late to register for the major AI and healthcare academic conference: Conference for Health, Inference, and Learning! We have an amazing line up of speakers from industry and academia! chil.ahli.cc

I build and test AI for healthcare, and it must absolutely be regulated.

When you are twinning with your postdoc by mirroring jacket/nails. #womeninstem

This is beyond awful. International students mean that we get the very best from all around the world. We all benefit. www.npr.org/2025/05/28/g...

See this opportunity with our sister journal @thejidinnovations.bsky.social; seeking candidates for the position of Editor. Interested? JID innovations would love to hear from you ow.ly/a8Ym50VZ64c

I went on the last kindergarten “field trip”. They walked down to the market to buy groceries for making a salad for the rest of the school. Why am I feeling so emotional? Why do they grow up so quickly?

This is what happens when publishing papers becomes the metric instead of doing good science. People use AI to write papers, too many papers to review, now using AI to review paper. What’s the point?

🧪 call your congressional representatives. Harvard had its MD-PhD funding cut off. This harms the future health of all Americans. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP867gvps/

🧪 Hey science feed, I’m an assistant professor of biomedical data science and dermatology (physician scientist). I’m going to do a Ask Me Anything thread here. Happy to talk about my job, what things are like now, having two young kids in academia.

The impact of these federal cuts to science won’t be seen tomorrow. But in 5-10 years, when we have a drop off in new treatments for cancer, heart disease, and everything else… it will because we significantly cut the number of scientists trained and killed the careers of existing scientists.

We are at the stage where the 17 month old pairs his destruction (throwing food on the ground, emptying bins) with “uh oh”.

With the destruction of federal funding for research, people have been hoping foundations fill in some of the gaps. HHMI decided to suspend their competitions AFTER applicants had already spent hours working on the application.

Reed Jobs says what I wish every VC would say and do: Stand up for science! He says if VCs don’t stand up for science, they don’t deserve to be in the space. @statnews.com #STATBreakthrough

A Stanford assistant professor and a Berkeley assistant professor walk into the #STATBreakthrough summit. There’s no punchline, just commiserating about the destruction of American science.

Important point from Eric Rubin regarding “viewpoint diversity” at the New England Journal of Medicine. He states they received no data driven papers on lockdowns and vaccines causing harm. That’s why there are no papers published on it. #STATBreakthrough @statnews.com

Susan Desmond-Hellman: I am mad. Americans are going to suffer and die because of the decisions of Mr. Kennedy and cuts to scientific funding. #STATBreakthrough @statnews.com

Georges Benjamin: For every dollar we put into research, we get 2.64 dollars back. This enterprise produces innovation and economic activity. #STATBreakthrough @statnews.com

What happens in SAIL 2025 stays in SAIL 2025 -- except for these anonymized hot takes! 🔥 Jotted down 17 de-identified quotes on AI and medicine from medical executives, journal editors, and academics in off-the-record discussions in Puerto Rico irenechen.net/sail2025/

This is a story everyone needs to read in @statnews.com. Casey Ross interviewing Megan Bent about how AI was used to deny her dad’s care, which led to a lot of suffering. www.statnews.com/denied-by-ai... #STATBreakthrough

One of the most important points that Lux VC partner Deena Shakir makes: companies in health tech must have clinical ROI! #STATBreakthrough

#STATBreakthrough summit Investing in AI panel with Deena Shakir, Lynne Chou O’Keefe, and Morgan Cheatham. @statnews.com

Innovation in pharma has been completely disrupted due to the dramatic cuts to science and uncertainty in the political landscape. As a scientist, I can say we are all buckling down and innovation will be impact. #STATbreakthrough @statnews.com

The #STATBreakthrough summit started with an amazing chat with @robcaliff.bsky.social, former FDA commissioner. He points out that approvals of drugs should be based on science and not politics. He is concerned about politicization of the FDA. @statnews.com

So I actually got this because I had to travel for a conference. I slept 8.5 straight hours, no one screamed for me when I was in the bathroom, and I even went for a run by the ocean (gasp!). And the whole time, I was missing my children soooooooo much. 😂

No one told me Game of Thrones was actually an allegory for academia.