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ASHDS members meet through special interest groups, local chapters, and an online community. Find your people and the conversations that move your work forward.
Special interest groups
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Peer groups where members trade methods, failures, and standards in the open.
Predictive Risk Modeling
Builds, validates, and maintains clinical risk models, with a standing emphasis on what happens after deployment. Members share validation practices, monitoring approaches, and hard-won failures in a quarterly case review.
Chair: Dr. Marcus Bellweather, PhD, FHDS — Cascadia University
1,140 members
Health Equity Analytics
Examines how data and algorithms can either narrow or widen health disparities, and develops practical methods for measuring fairness in real systems. It runs a working library of equity audit techniques that members apply in their own organizations.
Chair: Dr. Camille Dubois, MD, MPH — Valle Verde Community Health Network
890 members
LLMs and Generative AI in Care
Tracks the fast-moving use of large language models in clinical settings and works to separate genuine capability from vendor claims. Members co-author practical evaluation checklists and meet monthly to review new tools and evidence.
Chair: Dr. Wei Chen, PhD, FHDS — Lumen Health AI
1,470 members
Clinical NLP
Advances the extraction of meaning from clinical text, from discharge summaries to nursing notes, and advocates for shared annotation standards. It maintains a list of open datasets and benchmarks to lower the barrier for newcomers.
Chair: Dr. Benjamin Tran, PhD — Cascadia University
760 members
Data Governance and Privacy
Addresses the policy, ownership, and privacy questions that determine whether data work is trustworthy. Members trade governance templates and discuss real cases where access, consent, and accountability collided.
Chair: Daniel Hofstetter, MS, CHDS — Halcyon Health Plans
640 members
MLOps for Health Systems
Covers the engineering discipline of running models in production, including monitoring, retraining, and the handoffs between data scientists and operations. It is the most hands-on of the groups, with shared code patterns and architecture reviews.
Chair: Dr. Kwame Asante, PhD — Meridian Health System
820 members
Chapters
Local and regional chapters host meetups, journal clubs, and career events. We have active chapters across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
- Greater Boston
- Chicago
- Bay Area
- Pacific Northwest
- Toronto
- London
- Singapore
ASHDS Connect
Our members-only online community, with discussion forums for each special interest group and an open lounge.
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