All seminars are held at the University Center Tower 7000 Fannin Street, 6th floor (UCT E-612 & E-614), Houston, TX 77030 at 12 p.m. (noon) CT.
All seminars are archived on the Seminar Archive page.
View live and online at go.uth.edu/LiveSeminar.
| MCWILLIAMS SEMINAR SCHEDULE | ||||
| Date | Seminar Type | Speaker | Topic | |
| 1/14/2025 | Tuesday | Student | Elmer Bernstam, MD | Introduction to the New Student Seminar Series |
| 1/15/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Thomas Taylor, MD | Profiling EHR Phenotypes in a Learning Health System |
| 1/21/2025 | Tuesday | Student | OPEN | TBD |
| 1/22/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Degui Zhi, PhD | Genetic Discovery in the Age of AI |
| 1/28/2025 | Tuesday | Student | Evan Yu | Explainable AI and domain adaptation for predicting HIV infection with graph neural networks |
| 1/29/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Cecelia Ganduglia Cabazan, MD | UTHealth Center Care for Health Data |
| 2/04/2025 | Tuesday | Student | OPEN | TBD |
| 2/05/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Jorge Herskovic, PhD | Academic Achievement Metrics at MD Anderson |
| 2/11/2025 | Tuesday | Student | OPEN | TBD |
| 2/12/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Jeff Chang, PhD | Heterogeneity of Multi-Site Metastatic Breast Cancer Tumors at the End Stage |
| 2/18/2025 | Tuesday | Student | OPEN | TBD |
| 2/19/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Seminar has been canceled. | |
| 2/25/2025 | Tuesday | Student | Yao-Shun (Patrick) Chuang | Not fully synthetic: LLM-based Hybrid Approaches Toward Privacy-Preserving Clinical Note Sharing |
| 2/26/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Sunyang Fu | Advancing Aging Research with Natural Language Processing and Electronic Health Records: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions |
| 3/04/2025 | Tuesday | Student | OPEN | |
| 3/05/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Bingyu Mao | Precision dosing and disease prediction: advanced deep learning AI approaches on structured EHR data |
| 3/05/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Sheikh Muhammad Saiful Islam | Self-Supervised Deep Learning for Voxel-Based Brain Representation Learning and Genetic Variation Identification from T1-Weighted MRI |
| Spring Break 2025 ~ No Research Seminars during the week of March 10-14, 2025 | ||||
| 3/18/2025 | Tuesday | Student | Ye-Lin Son | Evaluating Radiation Therapy Impacts on Systemic Immune Responses in Patients |
| 3/19/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Alan Pan | Optimizing 30-Day Post-Acute Care Pathways to Improve Health Trajectories for Stroke Survivors: Trial Emulation Analysis of a Pragmatic Patient Management Workflow |
| 3/25/2025 | Tuesday | Student | Xiaotian Ma | A pioneering artificial intelligence tool to predict treatment outcomes in ovarian cancer via diagnostic laparoscopy |
| 3/26/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Anil Korkut, PhD | Enabling Precision Oncology through Computational and Systems Biology: Spatial Proteomics |
| 4/1/2025 | Tuesday | Student | Zehan Li | Beyond Social Determinants: Unveiling Psychological Stressors in Psychiatric Notes through Advanced Language Modeling |
| 4/2/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Yaobin Ling | Risk of Alzheimer’s disease following High-dose versus Standard-dose Influenza vaccination |
| 4/8/2025 | Tuesday | Student | Maryamsadat Mohtashamian | Depression Detection via Sleep EEG: A Deep Learning Approach |
| 4/9/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Hongfang Liu, PhD | Learning Health System Sciences towards Evidence-based Medicine in the Digital Era |
| 4/15/2025 | Tuesday | Student | Ran Hu | An Automated Approach for Identifying Erroneous IS-A Relations in SNOMED CT |
| 4/16/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Yifang Dang | The Extension of Social Determinants of Health Ontology on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia |
| 4/22/2025 | Tuesday | Student | Christina Van Hal | A Systematic Literature Review of Target Trial Emulations With Matching RCTs |
| 4/23/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Ken Mandl, MD | Precision Medicine Requires an Interoperable Digital Ecosystem |
| 4/29/2025 | Tuesday | Student | OPEN | TBD |
| 4/30/2025 | Wednesday | Main | Stojsin Rastko | Quantification of O-GlcNAcylation Dysregulation and Downstream Network Effects on Cancer Progression using TCGA Data |
Updated: 05/02/2025