Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD

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.

Nothing Bundt Cakes :)

Not my 19 month old son saying “all done” as I was kissing his chubby cheeks over and over again.

And it was in this case! Consulting team thought pressure ulcer but it was herpes.

On call this weekend and time for the wise @misharosenbach.bsky.social pearl. “Any erosion in the hospital is HSV or VZV until proven otherwise.” So as I tell the residents: always swab!

Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.

They continue to do whatever they can to block and discredit science. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Heard from #CHIL2025 panel: VC doesn’t want to fund high risk work (one VC even said “write a R01 grant). That’s what NIH grants are supposed to be. Without that, we won’t be able to do the high risk work that leads to innovation and companies.

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.

Dr Hightower giving a talk on responsible AI

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

I was very excited to be part of the team that put this together!

My daughter loves old school magic school bus, and I can’t help but wonder what Arnold becomes when he grows up…

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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It’s not too late to register for the major AI and healthcare academic conference: Conference for Health, Inference, and Learning! We have an amazing line up of speakers from industry and academia! chil.ahli.cc

I have. The timing of when it arrives is really variable, as is the quality. Some of the stuff was good and some of it was terrible. I used it to get Pokemon themed stuff I couldn’t find elsewhere.

I build and test AI for healthcare, and it must absolutely be regulated.

Even if we got it all back tomorrow, there’s already been severe damage done. So yeah, it’s gonna be bleak in 4 years.

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

Looks amazing

Both my kids, I was in labor for 24 hours (and thus awake). And then at the end, I had to push a baby out while in complete exhaustion.

Rubio says U.S. will 'aggressively' revoke visas for many Chinese students The announcement to revoke visas is the most drastic move yet to curtail the numbers of international students studying in the U.S.

This is beyond awful. International students mean that we get the very best from all around the world. We all benefit. www.npr.org/2025/05/28/g...

See this opportunity with our sister journal @thejidinnovations.bsky.social; seeking candidates for the position of Editor. Interested? JID innovations would love to hear from you ow.ly/a8Ym50VZ64c

I went on the last kindergarten “field trip”. They walked down to the market to buy groceries for making a salad for the rest of the school. Why am I feeling so emotional? Why do they grow up so quickly?

This is what happens when publishing papers becomes the metric instead of doing good science. People use AI to write papers, too many papers to review, now using AI to review paper. What’s the point?

Call your representatives and senators. Harvard’s MD PhD program, which trains future scientific and healthcare leaders has lost its fundinf. #science #NIH #marchforscience TikTok video by Dr. Roxana Daneshjou, MD PhD

🧪 call your congressional representatives. Harvard had its MD-PhD funding cut off. This harms the future health of all Americans. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP867gvps/

Haha ask me later, it’s a hot mess right now. My daughter was 1.5 when Covid hit and I was doing my postdoc with her at home (daycare closed). I had my son who is now 17 months during my first year as faculty.

Eventually, we know the microbiome is important but all the details are still being worked out.

I had my first baby in residency so during my postdoc/faculty, I was already juggling it. I do 10 percent clinic and the rest is teaching/research. My children are my world so I prioritize pickup/drop off and activities. I work on research after they sleep to make up for any time missed.

Great question! My lab focuses mostly on deep learning and training our own models, particularly on image based data. We also have been working with large language models and prompt engineering.

🧪 Hey science feed, I’m an assistant professor of biomedical data science and dermatology (physician scientist). I’m going to do a Ask Me Anything thread here. Happy to talk about my job, what things are like now, having two young kids in academia.

I was a Covid postdoc. Our daycare was closed for several months; everything was a struggle. I thought that was going to be the hardest part.