Rohit Vashisht
@Vashishtrv
Evolutionary Biology | Healthcare Analytics | Carnatic Music @UCSF | past @Stanford | https://rohit43.github.io
The valley has never looked so incredibly beautiful in my recent memory ❤️ @YosemiteNPS

It was absolutely thrilling to capture the galactic center last night!

Amazing commitment from the Weills to support groundbreaking and collaborative cancer research, including at the intersection of nutritional and weight-related inputs! Honored to be a part of this initiative! @AtUcsf @UCSFMedicine
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
A surprising duo: Two FDA-approved cancer drugs—letrozole and irinotecan—show promise in reversing Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice - our study published today in Cell led by Yaqiao Li in collaboration with Yadong Huang @SirotaLab @UCSF_BCHSI @GladstoneInst: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Do These Two Cancer Drugs Have What It Takes to Beat Alzheimer’s? @UCSF @SirotaLab @GladstoneInst Yadong Huang publish in @CellCellPress ! ucsf.edu/news/2025/07/4…
.@LeTour stage 11 is the 'sporting etiquette' at it's best. What an inspiration.
“Wearables have the potential to transform healthcare by enhancing personalized, preventive and scalable care, but realizing this potential nationally will require payment innovation to match the technological advances” ⤵️ beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-inf…
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 🆕 As Andrew Tanenbaum famously said “the good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.” Proud to be part of this new effort (1/2)🧵
Post training RL spending ~ Pre-training spending is insane! #Grok4
Dr. Karandeep Singh will give a keynote at #LHS2025. Dr. Singh leads AI initiatives within @InnovationUCSDH and oversees AI strategy and governance for the @UCSanDiego health system. We are thrilled that he is sharing his expertise! z.umn.edu/CLHSS-conferen…
ICYMI 👇
Perspective by Marlene Millen, MD, Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, and Christopher A. Longhurst, MD (@CALonghurst): A Call for Disclosure When Using AI for Patient Communications nejm.ai/3GKwGeU #AIinMedicine
Thrilled to see my book on healthcare Al open for preorders! sites.prh.com/preview/6f5cab… I tried to cut thru the hype, with stories & insights on everything from scribes to surgery, hallucinations to misinfo, med education to regulation. Plus "Will there be doctors?" @portfoliobooks
𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐞𝐫𝐚 🆕 Proud of this @Nature_NPJ perspective about strategies to operationalize LHS in the era of artificial intelligence H/t lead author Peter Steel and co-authors Bob Harrington, Gabe Wardi
Introducing Arc Institute’s first virtual cell model: STATE
Excited that #PanEcho is now published in @JAMA_current Kudos to @giholste @ekoikonomou for leading this incredible effort! Now also validated on ED POCUS studies + RVNet+ (Thx Attila Kovacs & Marton Takod for joining us) See 🧵 below for details! jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/……
📢 New AI for rare disease diagnosis: SHEPHERD shows how simulation + knowledge-grounded AI = deep learning for ultra‑low label domains nature.com/articles/s4174… This may shorten the journey from phenotype to diagnosis. Excited to help clinicians leverage fewer labels + more…
The catch in catching cancer early! As usual an impeccable article by Siddhartha Mukherjee in @NewYorker. All the more important when one tends to think deeply about causal inference from healthcare data! A must read. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…
🚨 Celebration of life honoring Dr. Atul Butte will be live streamed tomorrow Sat June 21 @ 10a PT - join us at youtu.be/YZgPZcRCtig
Dear colleagues and friends, please join to Celebrate the life of Atul Butte on Saturday at 10am. Co-hosted by @ucsf, @Stanford @Harvard
Please join us in Palo Alto this Saturday June 21 @ 10a for a 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐫. 𝐀𝐭𝐮𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐞’𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 co-hosted by UCSF, UC Health, Stanford, and Harvard stanfordmedicine.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1T…
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. Atul Butte, a visionary scientist, educator and leader whose work reshaped biomedical research and health care. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Dr. Butte’s family, colleagues, trainees and collaborators. ucsfh.org/4n25xVH