
Gabriel Laboratory
Meet the Team

Rodney A. Gabriel, MD, MAS
Vice-Chair of Perioperative Informatics and Division Director
Dr. Gabriel leads the efforts of the Division in utilizing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence approaches to tackle several perioperative medicine outcomes and opioid addiction using clinical and omics data.

Chun-nan Hsu, PhD
Associate Director of Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Hsu obtained his PhD in Computer Science and has decades of experience in developing foundation models in clinical medicine.

Patrick Farmer, MD
Associate Director of Quality Improvement and Informatics
Dr. Farmer is leading efforts in integrating MPOG into UCSD for applications in research and perioperative quality improvement.

Minhthy Meineke, MD
Associate Director of Preoperative Optimization
Dr. Meineke brings her interest in using AI to optimize preoperative evaluations for our surgical patients.

Jeff Tully, MD
Associate Director of Innovation
In addition to a developing interest in perioperative applications of natural langurage processing techniques, Dr. Tully has an active healthcare cybersecurity research program supported by ARPA-H and is board certified in clinical informatics.

Kim Zhou, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Dr. Zhou is an Assistant Clinical Professor with interests in applying machine learning and large language models in predicting perioperative outcomes

Brian P. Curran, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Dr. Curran is an Assistant Clinical Professor with interest in operating room efficiency and how AI may be used to improve workflows for outpatient surgery centers.

Martin Krause, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Dr. Krause is an Associate Clinical Professor and board-certified in Critical Care Medicine. He brings his interest in using multimodal models for predicting outcomes in the ICU.

Alvaro A. Macias, MD, MHA, FASA
Associate Clinical Professor
Dr. Macias is an Associate Clinical Professor and Clinical Director of Anesthesiology at UCSD East Campus. He brings his interest in social determinants of patient and surgical quality and safety.

Brian H. Park, MD
T32 Research Fellow
Dr. Park is a T32 Research Fellow with skills in machine learning, large language models and development of predictive models for perioperative outcomes.

Onkar Litake, MS (Computer Science)
Machine Learning Engineer

Sanidhya Singal, MS (Computer Science)
Machine Learning Engineer

Rohith Vutukuru, MS (Computer Science)
Graduate Student Researcher

Soraya Mehdipour, MD
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
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Brandon Palugod
Project Manager

Alexa Hernandez
Clinical Research Coordinator

Behrooz Mamandipoor (PhD candidate)
Graduate Student

Varshini Sathish (PhD candidate)
Graduate Student
Collaborators
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Kathleen M. Fisch, PhD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UCSD
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Carla Marienfeld, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD
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Julian McAuley, PhD, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
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Sesh Mudumbai, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Stanford University
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Hemal Patel, PhD, Professor and Vice-Chair of Anesthesiology, UCSD