DBDS at Stanford University

The Department of Biomedical Data Science (DBDS) is an academic research community of faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students with a shared mission to advance precision health by leveraging large, complex real-world data through the development and implementation of novel analytical tools and methods. DBDS merges the disciplines of biomedical informatics, biostatistics, computer science and advances in AI. The intersection of these disciplines is applied to challenging problems in healthcare and medicine using multi-modal data across the entire medical spectrum, including molecular, tissue, medical imaging, EHR, biosensory, and population data.
 
DBDS consists of 60+ faculty and includes a graduate training program established more than four decades ago which presently has 147 PhD and MS graduate students.  Alumni are leaders in many different sectors across academia, industry, and government, holding positions that are shaping the future of the field.