Fostering Community and Innovation Through UCSF’s Generative AI Office Hours
In September 2023, UCSF launched GenAI Office Hours, led by Academic Research Services and the UCSF Versa Tiger Team. This bi-weekly series fosters community, knowledge sharing, and explores AI applications within UCSF’s diverse workflows. Presenters from the community generously share their experiences and use cases with GenAI tools. Participants span a broad spectrum of roles, including professors, leadership, IT support staff, researchers, educators, and clinical practitioners. Sessions cover varied topics like AI in clinical research, education, and administration, with attendance ranging from 80-200 participants, reflecting broad interest and engagement. Surveys reveal frequent use of GenAI tools in coding, content generation, email tasks, summarization, and patient care, highlighting their transformative impact on workflows. The GenAI Office Hours effectively build community and drive AI adoption, empowering the UCSF community to harness AI’s potential in their work.
Speaker/Host
Primary/Host Speaker
Anna Rubinsky
Lead Clinical Informatics Specialist at UC San Francisco
Anna Rubinsky is Lead Clinical Informatics Specialist for UCSF’s Academic Research Services’ Research Data Assets User Support team. Trained as a health services researcher, she specializes in using large-scale EHR data for research, with a focus on population health and health equity. Her background developing robust analytic datasets helps her guide researchers on how to use and interpret complex clinical data for research. In her current role, Dr. Rubinsky contributes to the advancement of UCSF’s de-identified self-services research data assets, including integration of EHR data from San Francisco Department of Public Health and UCSF Fresno. She played a key role in ensuring these data align with research workflows, from optimizing data quality to creating detailed documentation. Beyond her data efforts, Dr. Rubinsky organizes biweekly UCSF GenAI office hours, providing a forum for the UCSF community to share experiences incorporating generative artificial intelligence solutions into their work.
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