This is the bi-weekly, JEDI Staff Council Meeting, a sub-committee of the Department of Surgery’s JEDI Council. This council is focused mostly on event planning and staff-related JEDI issues. Please email Ani Gevorkian if you are interested in joining!

Presented by: Sydney Conover, Qualitative Research Assistant, Center for Innovation and Implementation (Ci2i), Palo Alto Veterans Affairs
Talk Title: “Qualitative Methods for Generative AI: Insights from Extracting Smoking History from Clinical Notes.”

Bio: Sydney Conover is aqualitative research assistant within Center for Innovation and Implementation (Ci2i) at the Palo Alto VA. She graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a BS in Public Health, and a minor in Biology (2022). Her past qualitative work has focused on attitudes surrounding e-cigarettes and hepatitis B education. Her current research centers on the application of qualitative methodologies to Natural Language Processing, with the aim of developing an evaluation framework for analysis of text-based input and output data for modern large language models.

Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>

Annual Academic Surgical Congress Practice Presentation Run.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts a hybrid-model Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback. These run from September through May each year.

Our monthly WIP sessions (first Monday of every month) features Stanford and guest faculty presentations of well-developed projects. This WIP provides an opportunity to discuss high impact research and create synergy within the Stanford HSR/Surgery communities.

Our weekly WIP sessions feature trainees and faculty projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.

For inquiries, please contact Ana Mezynski <mezynski@stanford.edu>

This is the bi-weekly, JEDI Staff Council Meeting, a sub-committee of the Department of Surgery’s JEDI Council. This council is focused mostly on event planning and staff-related JEDI issues. Please email Ani Gevorkian if you are interested in joining!