Physician Scientist Collective Distinguished Speaker Series

The Physician Scientist Collective Distinguished Speaker Series features speakers from diverse medical fields across national academic institutions who share their experiences and insights on physician-scientist careers.

Focused Flexible Accelerated Studies (FFASt) Workshop: Accelerating Clinical Science with AI and Coding Agents

Peter Chang, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Radiological Sciences
Director, Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence Research and the Institute for Precision Health

This interactive FFASt workshop, co-hosted with the UC Irvine Institute for Clinical & Translational Science (ICTS), equips faculty, scientists, and trainees with the practical skills to integrate advanced AI into their daily research workflows. By leveraging coding agents like Kiro CLI and secure cloud platforms such as AWS Bedrock, participants will learn how to overcome traditional bottlenecks in medical research. The session focuses on hands-on applications tailored to clinical science, demonstrating how AI can act as a collaborative partner to quickly process complex datasets, automate data cleaning pipelines, and draft high-quality scientific manuscripts. Whether you are generating novel hypotheses or navigating unstructured clinical data, this workshop provides a practical roadmap for deploying agentic AI to accelerate the path from raw data to publication.