Professor of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Associate Chair of Communications, Director of @StanfordMed25, Department of Medicine
Mountain View / Stanford
Joined April 2011
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Errol Ozdalga retweeted
Analysis of 1.2 million reddit posts reveals the friendliest cities in the world. Glad to see my home city representing.
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Errol Ozdalga retweeted
Excited to present new #AI work from the lab: virtual worlds designed to test the ability of agents to reason towards identifying drug targets.
arxiv.org/abs/2610.09558
Errol Ozdalga retweeted
Rebecca Handler @rmh199 and I wrote about my experience using @AnthropicAI's Claude to analyze my genome and how this makes the standards we recently wrote about in Nature even more important to the future of precision medicine.
statnews.com/2026/10/01/clau…
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Errol Ozdalga retweeted
Thanks to Hanae Armitage for this lovely article triggered by our recent medical genome position paper.
Grateful to that amazing group of authors for their leadership in envisioning the next 10 years of the medical genome!
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Errol Ozdalga retweeted
Ever struggled with the focusing wheel of the direct ophthalmoscope? It's a common source of confusion, but it's actually very easy to use when you understand it! See our tips here: stan.md/3Tyrbqj
ALT The image depicts a diagram showing how to adjust focus using a device with two dials labeled for positive (green) and negative (red) adjustments. The left side illustrates focusing items that are close using positive/green settings, while the right side shows focusing items that are far using negative/red settings. Retinas are depicted to demonstrate focus effects. The image is credited to Stanford Medicine.
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The retina is the only part of the central nervous system visible from the exterior, & it can reveal a wealth of information. Learn the technique, the #ophthalmoscope settings & key retinal findings every #internist should know: stan.md/3Tyrbqj
ALT This is an annotated medical image of the retina from Stanford Medicine. It highlights the optic disc, optic cup, fovea, macula, a vein, and an artery.
Errol Ozdalga retweeted
Wearables are everywhere. Large-scale wearable health research data is not.
The bottleneck is openness: the biggest datasets and models are closed or heavily gated, and shared benchmarks barely exist.
Last week, we released OpenMHC to change that. 🧵
Errol Ozdalga retweeted
The #PhysicalExam is a cornerstone of medicine. "It connects us to each other. Let's share our knowledge. Let's learn from one another, together, at the bedside," says #StanfordMed25Global's Brooke Cotter. Stay tuned for more on this new initiative!
ALT This image features Brooke Cotter with long hair, wearing a blue top, standing in front of a leafy background. The text reads, "Stanford Medicine 25 Global. Dr. Brooke Cotter. Global Ambassador Institutional Partner." The Stanford Medicine logo is present.
Errol Ozdalga retweeted
Can an embedded LLM inside our patients' records solve all of the problems the electronic health record created in the first place?
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
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#PhysicalExams are inexpensive, non-invasive & immediately available. Physiatrist Francisco Torres points out that trained human senses can catch subtle changes in temperature, texture & symmetry that imaging sometimes misses. stanford.io/3TOcCyH
Errol Ozdalga retweeted
Two #StanDOM faculty are stepping into national leadership at @AST_info: Deborah Levine has been elected to the Board of Directors, & @jonmaltzman is now President-Elect. Great recognition of @StanfordMed's role in #transplant research, care, education & policy.
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Errol Ozdalga retweeted
#StanDOM's Robert Negrin pioneered the foundational science behind TREGZI™, a new FDA-approved cell therapy for adults with #BloodCancers undergoing matched-donor stem cell transplant. bwnews.pr/4gEeiEB
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Errol Ozdalga retweeted
In a new episode of The Future of Medicine, Travis Zack, an oncologist, researcher & chief medical officer of @openevidence, joins #StanDOM's @eozdalga to discuss #MedicalAI, #ClinicalDecisionMaking & the future of #PatientCare. Watch now: youtu.be/nrfGSE__7po
Errol Ozdalga retweeted
🚨 Major update in the ATTR amyloidosis world: the CARDIO-TTRansofrm trial missed its primary endpoint. What does this mean for our patients & the field? My early thoughts below... astrazeneca.com/media-centre…
Errol Ozdalga retweeted
* It took 30 minutes but most of that was spent idle waiting to ping NCBI servers via <sleep> pauses.
* This was about 400k tokens and cost about $5 (Claude estimates)
Final thought:
There is no world in which this is not utterly remarkable.
Errol Ozdalga retweeted
Well, today seemed like as good a moment as any—while I was unpacking from vacation—to have Claude analyze my genome. This is not a trivial problem given my variant call file is over a decade old. But that also provides some nice challenges wrt file formats and ref calls.
Errol Ozdalga retweeted
One of the best days of the year: Welcoming our new interns! 🙂 Couldn’t be more excited for you all to join the @StanfordMedRes & @StanfordDeptMed family! – at Stanford, CA
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What if #DigitalTwins could help us anticipate illnesses long before symptoms emerge? #StanDOM's @Neera_Ahuja (pictured), Jason Hom, @jonc101x & @ogevaert discuss in a recent @BMJ_HCI editorial: bit.ly/4v1yWSH
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#StanDOM's Fatima Rodriguez served as vice chair of the writing committee for the 2026 AHA/ACC/ADA/ASN Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation & Management of #CKMSyndrome & received a commendation for her contributions. bit.ly/4xDSH5a
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Exciting work from a really talented team led by @BrianHie
Performing bioinformatics analysis and building biological design pipelines can mean a lot of infrastructure fighting: fragmented tools, idiosyncratic formats, and APIs that are hard to compose. That friction slows researchers down, and as this Anthropic blog post lays out, it's now a major bottleneck for modern agents as well.
Today, we're releasing Proto, a design platform for generative biology. This thread is on the layer that makes it work: proto-tools, a universal open-source infrastructure layer for biological models and tools.
