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Meet the Team

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Minhthy Meineke, MD

Associate Director of Preoperative Optimization

Dr. Meineke brings her interest in using AI to optimize preoperative evaluations for our surgical patients.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Onkar Litake, MS (Computer Science)

Machine Learning Engineer

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Sanidhya Singal, MS (Computer Science)

Machine Learning Engineer

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Rohith Vutukuru, MS (Computer Science)

Graduate Student Researcher

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Soraya Mehdipour, MD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar

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Brandon Palugod

Project Manager

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Alexa Hernandez

Clinical Research Coordinator

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Behrooz Mamandipoor (PhD candidate)

Graduate Student

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Varshini Sathish (PhD candidate)

Graduate Student

Collaborators

  • Kathleen M. Fisch, PhD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UCSD

  • Carla Marienfeld, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD

  • Julian McAuley, PhD, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD

  • Sesh Mudumbai, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Stanford University

  • Hemal Patel, PhD, Professor and Vice-Chair of Anesthesiology, UCSD

The Division of Perioperative Informatics

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