Jan
27
Mon
2025
General Surgery Division M&M
Jan 27 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am
Work In Progress Session
Jan 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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>

Jan
28
Tue
2025
Grand Rounds: Dr. Shipra Arya
Jan 28 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am
Feb
3
Mon
2025
General Surgery Division M&M
Feb 3 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am
Work In Progress Session
Feb 3 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Academic Surgical Congress (ASC) Practice Presentation.

Speakers:

Laura Graham, PhD, Affiliate Faculty, S-SPIRE Center, Stanford University, VA HERC, VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Zaria Cosby, MPH, Social Science Research Professional, S-SPIRE Center, Stanford University
Grace Keegan, Medical Student, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago

Anyone can attend and happy hour conditions apply here too.

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

Feb
10
Mon
2025
General Surgery Division M&M
Feb 10 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am
Weekly Work In Progress
Feb 10 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Pacific Coast Surgical Association (PCSA) Practice Run.
Presented by the Department of Surgery Residents at Stanford University.

Each week, S-SPIRE hosts an in-person Work-In-Progress session (WIP) for faculty members and trainees to present their research and receive feedback on projects in every phase of development—from drafting specific aims pages, to parsing grant review committee comments, to abstracts/papers/methods in preparation.

Please refer inquiries to Ana Mezynski at mezynski@stanford.edu

 

Feb
11
Tue
2025
M&M – Cancelled
Feb 11 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am
Feb
17
Mon
2025
General Surgery Division M&M
Feb 17 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am
Feb
18
Tue
2025
Grand Rounds: Dr. Amanda Kirane
Feb 18 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am