Publications and preprints

• From Fuzzy to Formal: Scaling Hospital Quality Improvement with AI

  Patrick Vossler, Jean Feng, Venkat Sivaraman, Robert Gallo, Hemal Kanzaria, Dana Freiser, Christopher Ross, Amy Ou, James Marks, Susan Ehrlich, Christopher Peabody, Lucas Zier

  arXiv preprint, 2026

• Patient perspectives about deployment of artificial intelligence decision support tools in a safety-net healthcare system

  Nicholas Phelps, Patrick Vossler, Avni Kothari, Katherine Steineman, Seth Goldman, Arturo Gasga, Susan Ehrlich, Hemal Kanzaria, Julia Adler-Milstein, Jean Feng, Paige Nong and Lucas Zier

  JAMIA Open, 2026

• Human-AI Co-design for Clinical Prediction Models

  Jean Feng, Avni Kothari, Patrick Vossler, Andrew Bishara, Lucas Zier, Newton Addo, Aaron Kornblith, Yan Shuo Tan, Chandan Singh

  npj Digital Medicine, 2026

• When the Domain Expert Has No Time and the LLM Developer Has No Clinical Expertise: Real-World Lessons from LLM Co-Design in a Safety-Net Hospital

  Avni Kothari, Patrick Vossler, Jean Digitale, Mohammad Forouzannia, Elise Rosenberg, Michele Lee, Jennee Bryant, Melanie Molina, James Marks, Lucas Zier, Jean Feng

  AAAI, AI for Social Impact Track, 2026

• Reducing readmissions in the safety net through AI and automation

  Daniel Bennett, Jean Feng, Seth Goldman, Avni Kothari, Laura Gottlieb, Matthew Durstenfeld, James Marks, Susan Ehrlich, Jonathan Davis and Lucas Zier

  The American Journal of Managed Care, 2025

• Implementing a Predictive Model to Reduce Hospital Readmissions in a Safety Net Healthcare System

  Arturo Gasga, Avni Kothari, Seth Goldman, Jim Marks, Jean Feng, Lucas Zier

  ML4H - Demo Track (Oral Spotlight), 2024

• Bayesian Concept Bottleneck Models with LLM Priors

  Jean Feng, Avni Kothari, Luke Zier, Chandan Singh, Yan Shuo Tan

  NeurIPS Workshop on Statistical Frontiers in LLMs and Foundation Models, 2024

• Predictors of All-Cause 30-Day Readmissions in Patients with Heart Failure at an Urban Safety Net Hospital: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and Mental Health

  Alexandra B. Steverson, Paul J. Marano, Caren Chen, Yifei Ma, Rachel J. Stern, Jean Feng, Efstathios D. Gennatas, James D. Marks, Matthew S. Durstenfeld, Jonathan D. Davis, Priscilla Y. Hsue, Lucas S. Zier

  American Journal of Medicine, 2023

• Effect of a Novel, Evidence-Based, Standardized Discharge Checklist on 30-Day All-Cause Readmissions in Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure in an Urban Safety Net Hospital

  Paul Marano, Alexandra Steverson, Caren Chen, Yifei Ma, Rachel Stern, Jonathan D. Davis, Priscilla Y. Hsue, Lucas S. Zier

  American Journal of Medicine, 2022

Talks

• Patient Perspectives About Deployment of AI Decision Support Tools in a Safety-Net Healthcare System

  Nicholas Phelps; Patrick Vossler; Avni Kothari; Jean Feng; Katherine Steineman; Paige Nong; Julia Adler-Milstein; Arturo Gasga,; Seth Goldman; Susan Ehrlich; Hemal Kanzaria; Lucas Zier

  Oral Presentation, 2025 AMIA Annual Symposium

• Strategies for Developing and Implementing AI/ML in Underserved Healthcare Environments

  Lucas Zier, Susan Ehrlich, Paige Nong, Jean Feng

  Panel, 2024 AMIA Annual Symposium

• Bayesian Priors From Large Language Models Make Clinical Prediction Models More Interpretable

  Avni Kothari, Daniel J. Bennett, Seth Goldman, Elizabeth Connelly, James D. Marks, Lucas S. Zier, Jean Feng

  Oral Presentation, 2024 AMIA Annual Symposium

• The Promise of AI in Healthcare and How Lean Thinking Can Realize Its Potential

  Jackie Gerhart, Christopher Longhurst, John Toussaint, Lucas Zier

  Lean Enterprise Institute, 2024 Lean Summit

• Reducing Readmission in a Safety Net Health System through Automation and Artificial Intelligence

  Daniel Bennett, Jonathan Davis, Avni Kothari, Jean Feng, Susan Ehrlich, Lucas Zier

  UCSF School of Medicine Leadership Retreat in Artificial Intelligence, 2024

• Development of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Risk of Thirty-Day Unplanned Readmission in a Safety Net Health System

  Avni Kothari, Jonathan Davis, Susan Ehrlich, Lucas Zier, Jean Feng

  UCSF School of Medicine Leadership Retreat in Artificial Intelligence, 2024