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James Diao

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James Diao

@JamesADiao

Resident @BrighamMedRes • Research Fellow @HarvardDBMI • Associate Editor @NEJM_AI • Studying performance & equity in clinical algorithms

Boston, MA

Joined May 2020

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James Diao
@JamesADiao
Feb 15, 2025
🧵1/ Last year, a thoughtful reply to our @JAMA_current article sent me down a rabbit hole on CVD prevention. Should statins be prescribed less or more often? Available OTC? Added to the water supply?? Let’s talk trials, thresholds, and tradeoffs!
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James Diao
@JamesADiao
Jun 13, 2024
Out in print today!
NEJM
@NEJM
Jun 12, 2024
Special Article: Implications of Race Adjustment in Lung-Function Equations nej.md/44K5TaC Editorial: Beyond Diagnostics — Removing Race from Lung-Function Test Interpretation nej.md/3yssagU #CriticalCare
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James Diao
@JamesADiao
May 20, 2024
🧵 1/ What’s at stake with race-based equations for lung function? Clinical, occupational, and financial reclassifications for millions of patients. I’m delighted to share this labor of love, published today in @NEJM and unveiled at #ATS2024. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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James Diao
@JamesADiao
Jul 29, 2024
🧵 1/ Statins and BP meds can be lifesaving for patients at risk of heart attack or stroke. But what happens when we redefine who is “at risk”? In today’s @JAMA_current, we explore the potential impact of new @American_Heart PREVENT risk equations. Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
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James Diao
@JamesADiao
Mar 16, 2024
Overjoyed to be joining the @BrighamMedRes family next year! I'm eternally grateful to my family, life partner @gloriajwu, and longtime mentor @arjunmanrai, always my greatest supporters. We matched!! 🥳🎉🥂 @harvardmed @harvardDBMI @mit_hst @pdsoros #Match2024
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James Diao
@JamesADiao
Jan 3, 2023
Replying to @emollick
The authors explicitly deny parity with clinicians, and there are a lot of reasons why. E.g., MedPaLM's responses contained incorrect/inappropriate info 18.7% of the time vs. 1.4% for clinicians. Very impressive/promising results ofc, but still some work to go!
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James Diao
@JamesADiao
Jan 25, 2022
1/ Can a simple thumb trick save thousands from sudden cardiac death? Now out in #AmJCardiology, @arjunmanrai, @GloriaJWu, and I investigate the questionable clinical utility of a newly proposed “digital”😉 biomarker. ajconline.org/retrieve/pii/S…
James Diao
@JamesADiao
Feb 13, 2023
My brother is coming to @MIT_CSAIL for his PhD!! Could not be prouder of @CD1AO and all the hard work that brought him here. Excited to finally live in the same city again after 9 years!
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James Diao
@JamesADiao
Dec 1, 2021
Honored to join @ForbesUnder30 in Healthcare among some familiar (and much-admired) faces!! 🥳 As always, a hearty shoutout to my incredible mentor and friend @arjunmanrai, without whom none of this would've been possible.
Forbes Under 30
@ForbesUnder30
Dec 1, 2021
Meet the #ForbesUnder30 Class of 2022: defying the odds amidst a global pandemic and supply chain breakdowns, these honorees are resilient and destined to change the world. forbes.com/30-under-30/20…
James Diao
@JamesADiao
Nov 22, 2021
Collecting expert annotations at scale can be a huge cost sink for medical ML. Check out our (non-technical) editorial in @Nature_NPJ on HALS: a human+AI workflow that increases labeling efficiency by up to 10-fold! With @richardjchen and @jkvedar: nature.com/articles/s4174…
James Diao
@JamesADiao
Apr 13, 2021
Grateful and delighted to join the @PDSoros Fellows community!! A huge thank you to the Fellowship for supporting my education—I can’t wait to meet everyone 😀
PD Soros Fellowships
@PDSoros
Apr 13, 2021
We're thrilled to announce the 2021 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellows: 30 New Americans—immigrants and children of immigrants—pursuing graduate school, who exemplify the extraordinary contributions of immigrants to the United States. 🗽🇺🇸🎓 pdsoros.org/meet-the-class…
James Diao
@JamesADiao
May 23, 2024
No #22 without #23! A huge thank you to Raj, my amazing advisor of eight (!) years and the absolute GOAT of supporting my career 🙏
Arjun (Raj) Manrai
@arjunmanrai
May 23, 2024
🧵1/ I’m beyond proud of my student @JamesADiao who today became the 22nd student in the >200-year history of Harvard Medical School to receive his MD Summa Cum Laude. No better way to celebrate this by noting the uncanny similarities between James Diao and … Taylor Swift.
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James Diao
@JamesADiao
Mar 12, 2021
Now out in @NatureComms: AI-derived image features for interpretable molecular prediction! 🔬🧬 Proud to have led this work at @Path_AI alongside my amazing classmates @jkuwang and @wanfungchui. Tweetorial + press release linked below:
Human-interpretable image features derived from densely mapped cancer pathology slides predict...
From nature.com
James Diao
@JamesADiao
Oct 17, 2024
Grateful to have my work highlighted on the 2024 @statnews list!! And loved seeing familiar faces of my former classmates @paredesmig and @ariztisanz 🥳
Harvard Medical School
@harvardmed
Oct 16, 2024
Congratulations to James Diao of Harvard Medical School and @BrighamWomens, who has been selected as a 2024 #STATWunderkinds. Diao's research analyzing the impacts of race and its removal from calculators for kidney function, lung capacity, and cardiovascular disease risk have
James Diao - 2023 STAT Wunderkinds
From statnews.com
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