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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

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.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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

Dr Hightower giving a talk on responsible AI

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

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

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

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

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

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

A picture of belle reading with caption “what I thought it would be like to be a professor” and a picture of Arya Stark beaten up with caption “what it’s actually like”

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I stand strongly against anti-semitism and if you read the Harvard president’s comments, so do they. The federal government has no place taking over universities.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Just walking to my morning workout at the Stanford gym and see this

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Amazing talk from @emilyalsentzer.bsky.social at the @dbdsstanford.bsky.social and Accenture summit. Trained a graph neural networks on 40,000 simulated patients representing 2000+ diseases and evaluated on real undiagnosed disease network. See their paper: lnkd.in/gYCxFC-W

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Our lab has so much fun working at the cutting edge of AI in medicine!

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Super excited that our paper, led by the brilliant Alex DeGrave in collaboration with @suinlee.bsky.social got the cover of Nature Biomedical Engineering! www.nature.com/natbiomedeng...

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Nowruz pirooz! May your new year be filled with blessings. Our school let us set up a haft sin!

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This makes me so upset. The reason everyone needs to get a Measles vaccine is to protect not only themselves but the vulnerable people in our community who are too young to get vaccinated or may have impaired immune systems.

Infant in Austin tests positive for measles

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Dr. David Williams talking about study after study that shows the impact of racism on healthcare and medical decision-making. Doctors, are you really going to stop talking about this?

The effect of race on recommendations of cardiac catheterization - Black patients less likely to be recommended for catheterization given equivalent situations.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

When your lab decides that this quarter’s activity is goat yoga.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Anyone who knows me knows that I always say I can’t cook or bake.. but I’m entering a new era.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Wow just wow - Dr. Dennis Wall on creating games to help children with autism. The game also collects data to track the impact of therapy. @dbdsstanford.bsky.social

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Dr. Stephen Montgomery talks about accelerating the diagnosis of rare diseases using genomics. @dbdsstanford.bsky.social

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Carlos Bustamante is giving a master class on identifying new mutations for familial hypercholesterolemia across diverse populations and developing ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores. @dbdsstanford.bsky.social

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Super star @emilyalsentzer.bsky.social talking about using graph neural networks to understand relationships between genes and diseases to help patients with rare and undiagnosed diseases. Their approach beats all SOTA LLMs.

A woman giving a talk about graph neural networks

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Dr. Plevritis talks about exciting work in the department, including the creation of an app you can download on gene-drug interactions.

A slide showing the ddrx mobile app that can be found on ddrx.pharmgkb.org

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The chair of @dbdsstanford.bsky.social, Dr. Sylvia Plevritis, opens up the event talking about the goals of the diverse research of the department: we use AI/ML to define precision biomarkers, discover new drug targets, and define optimal patient management.

A woman presenting a slide that talks about drug precision biomarkers, identifying drug targets, and defining optimal management with AI/ML.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Today is one of my favorite days! The Careers and Collaboration forum of @dbdsstanford.bsky.social! Industry and academia come together for a day of collaboration and discussion on cutting edge informatics/AI research for biology and human health.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Funny story, when I was a grad student, I liked to doodle. I made this doodle one day. Our lab ended up moving and I lost the doodle. One day I saw it displayed in our old office space. For over 10 years, that’s where it sat. Today, I took it back to put in the research lab I run.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

This poet has been imprisoned in Iran for years due to her faith. Her health is deteriorating, and after heart surgery, the Iranian government is trying to send her back to prison. #freeMahvash

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

So exciting to have our session (AI in clinical medicine) at #PSB25 kicking off with invited speaker @suinlee.bsky.social talking about the importance of explainable AI for understanding clinical systems.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Amazing - 30th anniversary of @pacsym.bio. Celebrating the amazing co-chairs and staff that have made this conference possible! #psb25

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The sun rises on 2025. I wish for peace in the world and happiness in your lives.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Twitter is so delightful. Same senior computer science professor who made incredibly disparaging comments about women.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

My brother’s dog and my baby have quickly become best friends.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Being a physician scientist mom means that sometimes you lose childcare and no backup care is available… so baby comes to lab meeting.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What are people’s experiences with VuMedii? They keep asking me to make free videos for them, and I keep saying no. I already produce a lot of unpaid content with the American Academy of Dermatology. I’ve got free videos up on YouTube from talks I’ve given. Why should I do more for free?

An email chain where I say I won’t produce free content for a for profit company and they respond passive aggressively about me needing to simply educate other clinicians and evolve patient care.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Yesterday we got some real Disney magic due to this lovely lady right here. My six year old was dressed as Leia, her friend as Darth Vader (as Kylo Ren said to her, “your penchant for the dark side is reassuring”). The actress playing Rey spent a full 5 mins with our girls and gave them a mission.

A picture of an actress as Disney playing Rey

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

As an apology, here is a photo of my brother’s golden doodle.

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Have you ever used an LLM for your healthcare? We want to hear from you!! stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A flier showing that we have a study looking at how patients are using LLMs for their healthcare

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

After all this thinking, we are tired of sitting and ready to move. So of course we go hiking, which is fun but a little more strenuous than usual at 6000 feet. Lots of debate about how AI is being deployed.

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