Adan Z Becerra, PhD
@AdanBecerraPhD
Epidemiologist interested in data analytics, health economics, and technology. I am the Director of Health Outcomes at Arine, a medication intelligence company.
🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT🚨 Using a novel bibliometric index, notoriously known as the disruption score, we unveil the top 100 most disruptive papers in pharmacy literature shedding light on a captivating body of work that has profoundly changed the field academic.oup.com/ajhp/advance-a…
Resurrecting an @STS_CTsurgery blog post that I wrote during the pandemic: ‘Overcoming Setbacks in Your Life’. sts.org/blog/bounce-ov… As CEO Dr. Julie Freischlag @JFreischlag is fond of saying: “Don’t just bounce back, bounce up!”
Grateful to @STS_CTsurgery for the chance to blog: sts.org/resources/care… OKRs has helped me tremendously over the years. Entire framework continues to help going forward. Featuring quotes from @AmaliaCochranMD & @JFreischlag #MedTwitter #MedEd #CTCareers
I believe this is true, I used the word in my “Unreasonable Effectiveness of RNNs” post from 2015, and as far as I can remember I also hallucinated it.
Finally, a good modern book on causality for ML: causalai-book.net by @eliasbareinboim. This looks like a worthy successor to the ground breaking book by @yudapearl which I read in grad school. (h/t @JoshuaSafyan for the ref).
Academic read of the day! Crossover in oncology? A concise, open-access, 2-page paper clearly framing when it is is desirable, and when its problematic, by @AlysonHaslam & @VPrasadMDMPH in @Annals_Oncology Seminal 2018 paper and still as relevant! ➡️bit.ly/3TZCOUc
New paradigm of medical school? Thoughts @rbarbosa91 @TomVargheseJr @TopKniFe_B @TsengJennifer @pferrada1 @drdevirgilio @vegansurgeon time.com/7303692/alice-…
Excited to be leading an upcoming @SurgJournal Special Issue on how AI may transform surgery, from the OR to research to surgical education. This series will bring together thought‑provoking commentaries from top surgeons! 🚀😷 @SWexner @FergaljFleming @CaitlinWHicks @kbilimoria
Phenomenal talk at NYSCRS this morning by Dr. @JohnRTMonsonMD on the history of MIS in colorectal surgery- a technique we now take for granted. Lesson learned: innovation is difficult and the journey is better with a friend
In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
❌ An FDA advisory panel voted down two different #Blenrep combos for #MultipleMyeloma. 📝 @HadidiSamer of @uamshealth advised researchers to “examine multiple doses … to optimize the best” before conducting large clinical trials. Read more 👇 bit.ly/4f3LPoX
In just a short time, #AI has had a huge impact in health care - from enhancing research, to improving the physician/patient experience, to transforming the way physicians are trained - ow.ly/V7M550WuQwI
What does it take to bring a new cancer therapy to market? Strategic thinking, clinical insight, and innovation — all of which helped our PharmD students place 6th out of 70+ teams in @iphorg's 2025 case competition, earning the School’s highest score yet! pharmacy.wisc.edu/2025/06/06/pha…
Backed by a $100M gift from Joan and Sandy Weill, UCSF and @StanfordMed @StanfordCancer are launching Weill Cancer Hub West, a $200M initiative in team science to accelerate cancer research and improve care over the next decade. tiny.ucsf.edu/ppVRqt
🚨 Big news for stomach cancer care: FDA approves adding pembrolizumab to trastuzumab and standard chemotherapy for patients with HER2+ advanced gastric/gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. The full story is available in #CancerScope: 🔗 acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cn… @OncoAlert
Many things are approximately normal in the middle but not in the tails.
Distributed systems is the most fun field of computer science because of the stories behind each concept. That's why I'm launching Distributed Systems Made Simple, a YouTube channel to tell these stories in a fun way while diving deep into the "why". youtube.com/@DSMadeSimple
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An issue many of us experience but rarely articulate: the challenge of balancing the scalpel and the strategy. Looking forward to this timely webinar from @nganttmd and @AmCollSurgeons faculty. These conversations are essential to building sustainable surgical careers and…
The Tricky Balance Between Having a Clinical and Administrative Practice facs.org/about-acs/gove… stellar @AmCollSurgeons faculty including @nganttmd discussing a very timely important topic
Resist the tendency to anthropomorphize that which is not human
PSA: Don't say "Longer thinking kills performance" when you mean "Length of intermediate token string is not correlated with final accuracy"