For accepted students

Before you arrive

Your pre-camp checklist — readings, your specialty track, accounts to set up, what to bring, and Day 1 logistics.

Everything to do, set up, and bring before Day 1, in one place. The camp is a working week built around your project — a little preparation makes the small groups and workshops far more valuable.

Checklist

  • Look over the suggested readings — each content day has a short list (all readings, by day).
  • Pick your specialty track — self-select the data-modality track closest to your project (see below).
  • Find your home group — your fixed small group for the week, and the days you facilitate (home groups & facilitator rotation).
  • Prepare your two things to bring — a printed poster and a prospective project (see below).
  • Skim the Project Workbook so the small-group and workshop blocks are spent on substance.
  • Note Day 1 logistics — an 8:30 AM start; everything is within walking distance (below).

Suggested readings

Each content day (Days 1–5) has a short suggested-reading list — around five papers each. You’re not expected to have read them in advance, but skimming them makes the lectures and small groups more valuable. See the full list, organized by day.

Specialty tracks

On Day 1 and Day 2, the afternoon specialty breakout runs in domain-organized tracks — distinct from your home group, and used to pressure-test domain-specific choices with people inside your niche. Self-select the track closest to your project’s data modality before you arrive, and stay in it both days.

  1. Clinical & Structured EHR Data — structured records (vitals, labs, medications, diagnoses, procedures). Led by Tom Pollard (MIT).
  2. Clinical & Biomedical Text — clinical notes, reports, biomedical literature; extraction, summarization, clinical LLMs. Led by Emily Alsentzer (Stanford).
  3. Medical Imaging — radiographs, CT/MRI, digital pathology, ophthalmology, dermatology. Led by Tristan Naumann (AHLI).
  4. Genomics & Multi-omics — DNA/RNA and variant data, gene regulation, multi-omic integration. Led by Jineta Banerjee (Sage Bionetworks).
  5. Patient-Generated & Wearable / Sensor Data — wearables, remote monitoring, mobile health, continuous physiological signals. Led by Tom Hartvigsen (U Virginia).

If your project spans two tracks, pick the one your data most belongs to.

What to bring

  • A printed poster of published or submitted work you’re comfortable presenting — print it before you travel.
  • A prospective project — plausible, tied to a real program of work you can pursue over the next year. It need not be finished or even started, but it must be real enough to develop across the week. Every day applies that day’s lessons to it.

Day 1 logistics

Day 1 (Monday, June 22) begins at 8:30 AM with breakfast and check-in. You’ll be staying in the dorms, and everything — sessions, meals, and housing — is within walking distance, so there’s no shuttle to catch. The program proper begins at 9:00, with the first morning lecture at 9:15. An optional, informal social gathering may be held the evening before for anyone already in town.