I am off to Chicago for a two-day workshop on ophthalmology and AI, Illinois Eye-TEACH (Technology, Education, Artificial Intelligence, and Clinical Informatics in Healthcare. It is taking place at my medical school alma mater, UIC. chicago.medicine.uic.edu/ophthalmolog...

Each year, I give a lecture to first-year medical students at two universities. Entitled, Information is Different Now that You’re a Doctor, I introduce the field of clinical informatics and describe how the relationship with data and information changes when one becomes a physician.

Nice to get together with 10 of the 50 students completing the January-May 10x10 (“ten by ten”) course and spend an afternoon talking about all things informatics at the @amia.org Amplify meeting in Denver.

I am looking forward to this week’s @amia.org Amplify Conference in Denver, CO, where I will be conducting my usual in-person session for those completing the AMIA 10x10 (“ten by ten”) introductory course in biomedical informatics and AI. amia.org/education-ev...

Gosh, it’s almost as if he is, um, a liar He also lied when he said he wasn’t banning certain words; we wasted months and months of time removing “racial disparities” from our grant (endless hours on the phone with the NIH program officer) He lies as frequently as you and I breathe

Summary of the NAM workshop especially Director Bhattacharya’s Fireside chat. I will still post my reactions later, but I need some rest first.

‼️The 10x10 digital course, Introduction to Biomedical Informatics and AI, begins TOMORROW! Hear from course director William Hersh, MD, on what you'll bring to your work after the course. Register now and get started building your #AI foundation: amia.org/education-ev...

Registration is open for the next offering of the AMIA 10x10 (“ten by ten”) course that begins on April 8, 2026. This course provides a detailed overview of biomedical and health informatics and AI to those who will work at the interface of healthcare and information technology (IT).

Next offering of the course begins next week!

I came for a protest and won a peace prize!

Lovely day for a protest with a cast of tens (hundreds?) of thousands in Portland!

The amazing rainbows we get in Oregon! The pot of gold is likely just inside Nehalem Bay State Park.

I am looking for to attending the @amia.org #Amplify2026 conference in May!

I enjoyed the opportunity to give my talk "AI in Education and Education in AI" yesterday to the Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. Link to a PDF of my slides and references: assets.zyrosite.com/Aq2WRaVw59SJ...

1/n Listened to a thought provoking lecture by @billhersh.bsky.social on the role of AI in education and the need for education about AI. It seems to me that we need a radical rethink about the many purposes of education and how to deliver education to achieve those purposes. Surely it is time to...

Ok, I am impressed. Flying a United Embraer 175 tonight with Starlink from SFO to PDX. You can get it via wifi as soon as you board the plane, no need to wait until takeoff or 10,000 feet. And it's fast! www.speedtest.net/result/18826...

Applications for this #microbiome #datascience short course are due next week! If you're in biomedical research, interested in building data science skills to study the microbiome and reusing publicly available data, this course is for you!

This is an excellent, if sad, collection.

I genuinely enjoy Bluesky, its content, and the people on it with whom I interact, but the engagement here is nothing like other social media platforms, namely LinkedIn and Facebook. www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

Applications are open for our Human Microbiome Data Discovery short course at Oregon Health & Science University!

Happy Holidays!

My whole life, summed up in three words. @amia.org

The @amia.org 10x10 (“ten by ten”) course, Introduction to Biomedical Informatics & Artificial Intelligence, provides a broad and in-depth introduction to biomedical informatics and AI. For more information and registration, visit bit.ly/AMIA10x10

Come on Nashville, we are pulling for you!

It was gratifying to be awarded the @amia.org AMIA Academic Forum Health Informatics Educator of The Year Award at the Annual Symposium, but equally gratifying to be called out twice in Jim Cimino’s Year in Review session at the meeting.

This year marks my 40th consecutive #AMIA2025 fall meeting, dating back to SCAMC, and including the virtual meeting during the pandemic in 2020. Extra special this year is my daughter Alyssa attending, along with my grandson, and we will all be decked out in AMIA t-shirts!

There are many worse things the Trump Administration has done but this one hits close to home for me. One of the things that the US government does very well is create high-quality data sets and tools to use them. It is sad to lose these tremendous resources. apnews.com/article/cens...

What a great night! I feel better this morning than I have in a long time. Even though I do not agree with all of his policy positions, I am thrilled for Zohran Mandani. Great news in Virginia, New Jersey, and California! I hope this is the beginning of the end of Trump 2, but much work still to do.

I am a Cubs fan through and through, but enjoyed this World Series immensely. I was rooting for the Canadian team just to be able revel at a non-US team winning in the era of Donald Trump, but I can't complain about the victorious team from a blue state with many immigrants on its roster.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

I am thrilled and honored to announce that I have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). NAM is one of three academies that make up the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the US. news.ohsu.edu/2025/10/20/o...

Science is rarely perfect. But there is better inquiry, and worse. And political theater is a different thing from science, altogether. Glad to see @henryfordhealth.bsky.social clearing the air: www.henryford.com/News/2025/09...

People as far as the eyes can see at the Portland #NoKings rally! @indivisible.org

I am honored to receive the Inaugural @amia.org Academic Forum Health Informatics Educator of the Year Award. Thanks to students and colleagues who make teaching such an enjoyable pursuit! amia.org/news-publica...

Not to make light of this tragedy, but maybe we should redeploy the National Guard soldiers in Portland to Mississippi? www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/u...

Kudos to MIT! And I hope all the other universities offered this will likewise reject it. I especially like this quote: "Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Sad.

Even the lousiest seats in the stadium at the Super Bowl go for thousands of dollars a pop. I'm sure that DHS will find all sorts of undocumented immigrants in the stands watching the game. Such a wise use of taxpayer dollars. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/a...

I had a doctor’s appointment down at #Portland’s south waterfront, and took some very boring video of the “war zone” by the 🧊facility. About 1:15pm on 9/30/2025 One of the guys across the street is likely an LEO. Another is maybe media. #FootageFromTheWarzone #PortlandOregon #PortlandWarZone

Every single thing they do is about funneling money to Trump and his sycophants

Yesterday I spoke with @velshi.com about why Portland isn't 'war ravaged' - it's a city on the rise.

Things are getting tough this hellhole!

9 more days … #Africa #Bioinformatics #Health #Informatics #Education

As we await today’s “best news ever in medicine” report, please read this analysis from a couple weeks ago from one of my favorite medical substacks. Yes, there is some evidence to support a connect between Tylenol and autism.

Portland Strong! www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2025...

So sorry, ANTIFA. I’m afraid we have to let you go. 😌

I am off to Philadelphia for the AMIA Clinical Informatics Board Review Course (CIBRC), which I have directed and taught in for over a decade. This is the last year for physicians to become board-eligible via the Practice Pathway (grandfathering) and ... amia.org/education-ev...