It was great fun to host Andrew Vickers for our annual CTS Symposium, where he connected with Jerome P. Kassirer whose work 50 years ago with Steve Pauker on the threshold approach to decision making laid the foundation for Decision Curve Analysis.

Unfortunately, Charles Pierce was…

In which Andrew Vickers attempts to explain the nuances of decision curve analysis to gastroenterologists, hospitalists, hematologists, etc

Not to be missed!

📣 Join us for a thought-provoking seminar 'Everything but the Kitchen Sink' with Harvard University's Sharad Goel, Professor of Public Policy. Don't miss this #MiCHAMP Big Data & AI in Healthcare session. 📅3/15/24 |⏰ 2-3 PM EDT | michamp.med.umich.edu #AIinHealthcare #BigData #EthicalAI

🔍Excited for Sarah Jabbour & Michael Sjoding's presentation on 'AI for Clinical Diagnostic Decision Making: Can Explainability be a Back-Stop Against Biased AI?' at michamp.med.umich.edu! Join us as we explore the intersection of AI, healthcare, and ethics. #ClinicalAI #EthicalAI

Viewpoint in JAMA Neurology on covert cerebrovascular disease by Thomas Meinel
JoannaWardlaw and David M Kent

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Beautiful Op-Doc tribute to San Zaw Htway--Burmese artist, activist, political prisoner--in today's The New York Times by the great directors petr lom and Corinne van Egeraat (@BurmaStorybookC); Petr and Corrine have been documenting moving stories of struggle in Myanmar for the better…

Tomorrow, Michael Pencina, PhD and Matthew Elmore present 'The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI): Vision and Early Directions'. Join us from 2-3 PM EST at michamp.med.umich.edu/events-seminars

People are ripping into Rep. Tlaib for a simple tweet wishing people a Happy Hanukah. Don't do that. Particularly those of us who are Jewish or Palestinian must reach across divides, listen to each other, behave with graciousness+civility, and honor each other's basic identities.

next time i take the kids to visit bubbie, we will be buying our falafel from this guy on 83rd and 2nd

Censuring Tlaib is wrong, stupid and un-American

Great paper

Great to see Ben Wessler, one of our ⭐️early career faculty and former fellow and student, presenting at GR this week. Tufts Medical Center Tufts Medical Center Research tuftsctsi David M Kent

🗓️ Thu, Jul 27
⏰ 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM EDT
📍INFORMS #Healthcare2023

Harvard Kennedy School PhD student Madison Coots presenting her work w/ Soroush Saghafian Sharad Goel David M Kent

Should Race and Ethnicity be Used in Predictive Risk Models? Evidence from Diabetes Screening

Management of covert brain infarction survey: A call to care for and trial this neglected population
Urs Martin Fischer Thanh Nguyen 🇺🇦 Marco Pasi David Seiffge Adnan Mujanović Johannes Kaesmacher David M Kent Lester Y. Leung, MD, MSc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

Using race and ethnicity to estimate risk for diseases, such as diabetes, can yield large gains in statistical accuracy. However, @soroush_saghaf, David M Kent, Sharad Goel, and I show that, despite this, the gains in clinical utility are surprisingly modest. arxiv.org/abs/2306.10220

#MRCBG 's Soroush Saghafian (@PIASLab) and co-authors, Sharad Goel, Madison Coots, & David M Kent use #data analytics to engage with whether to consider patient #race and #ethnicity when estimating #disease risk.

#health #publichealth #analytics #health policy

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Our #HEOR certificate program, enrolling now for Fall!

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Looking forward to GR today with Jack Iwashyna🫁 on #mentoring , as part of our tuftsctsi graduate symposium.
David M Kent Sucharita Kher MD Tufts Medical Center Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health