Soon Cho (Couple and Family Therapy) presented on "It's nice having someone to talk to, even if you are just AI. Relational Distress in the Age of AI: Why People Turn to AI in Relational Distress and What Happens in the Conversation" at the 11th Annual Asian Academy of Family Therapy Conference in Seoul, South Korea. 

Soon Cho Ph.D. (Couple and Family Therapy) presented on "Generative AI Chatbots and Mental Health Help-Seeking: A Pre-Post Trial" at the Annual American Psychological Association 2026 in Washington, D.C.

Soon Cho (Couple and Family Therapy) presented on "Talking to AI about Stress: A Content Analysis of Human-AI Conversations on Personal Distress" at the Annual American Psychological Association 2026 in Washington, D.C. 

Researchers from the CANE (Cognitive Aging & Neuropsychological Equity) Lab, Stacey Moeller (Psychology) and Samantha John (Brain Health), along with collaborators Marta Meana (Psychology), Brenna Renn (Psychology), Elizabeth Lawrence (Sociology), and Nanako A. Hawley, published a study in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment…

Dr. William W. Aitken (Medicine) co-authored an article titled "Precision greenness exposure is associated with lung cancer risk in medicare beneficiaries" published in the August 2026 volume of Cancer Causes & Control. This study examined whether lung cancer risk is influenced by block-level greenness, controlling for age, sex, race/…

Sonal Prasad, Michael Dicaro, Thomas Iida, Tina Frisch, and Mutsumi J. Kioka (all Medicine) published “Reversible Complete Atrioventricular Block in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor–Associated Triple-M Overlap Syndrome: A Case Report” in European Heart Journal – Case Reports, an official journal of the European Society of Cardiology. This…

Antonious Anis, Juliann Shih, Kavita Batra, Irene Huang, and Mutsumi J. Kioka (all Medicine), together with Vidhani Goel (Public Health), published “Poor agreement between bioreactance and echocardiography during passive leg raising in patients with shock” in Scientific Reports, a Nature Portfolio journal. This investigator-initiated prospective…

Dr. Marc J. Kahn (Medicine) and his mentee from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine recently published a paper titled, "Is iron therapy indicated for heat failure with reduced ejection fraction patients?" in the Canadian Journal of Physiology and  Pharmacology. Their paper is a sytematic review of the benefits of…

Baylor Akhavan, Brian Kerlin, Rachel Soong, Alexander Kieger, and Brandon Chen (all Medicine) published the peer-reviewed case report, “Inferior Vena Cava Filter Retrieval with Radial Jaw Biopsy Forceps: A Case Report,” in AME Case Reports in June 2026. The report presents an innovative approach to the retrieval of a challenging inferior…

Asma Awan (Dental) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine) published an article titled, “Theoretical Paradigms Implied in Social Media Use and Mental Health Outcomes: A Narrative Review” in the journal Advances in Medicine, Psychology, and Public Health. The review explained thirteen theoretical paradigms which were…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with the GBD 2023 LDL Cholesterol Collaborators, coauthored an article titled “Global Burden of Elevated LDL-C: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” in JAMA (Impact factor 65.4). The study found that in 2023, elevated low-density…

Manoj Sharma (Social & Behavioral Health, Internal Medicine), as a senior collaborator with the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative Stillbirth Collaborators, coauthored an article titled “Stillbirths at 22- and 28-weeks’ gestation or longer for the states in India: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023” in the journal…