Publications

Selected Publications

Does Domain-Specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation Help LLMs Answer Consumer Health Questions?
Chase Fensore, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Megha Shah, Joyce C. Ho
Machine Learning for Healthcare (MLHC), 2025
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Evaluating Hybrid Retrieval Augmented Generation using Dynamic Test Sets: LiveRAG Challenge
Chase Fensore,* Kaustubh Dhole,* Joyce C. Ho, Eugene Agichtein<\span>
LiveRAG Workshop @ SIGIR 2025
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LLMs as Medical Safety Judges: Evaluating Alignment with Human Annotation in Patient-Facing QA
Yella Diekmann, Chase Fensore, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Eduard Castejon Rosales, Sakshi Shiromani, Rima Pai, Megha K. Shah, Joyce C. Ho
24th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing @ ACL 2025
[Paper] [Code]

Evaluating Safety of Large Language Models for Patient-Facing Medical Question Answering
Yella Diekmann, Chase Fensore, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Nishant Pradhan, Bhavya Appana, Joyce C. Ho
ML4H, 2024
[Paper] [Code]

Large Language Models for Integrating Social Determinants of Health Data
Chase Fensore, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Shivani Patel, Alanna Morris, Joyce C. Ho
ML4H (Findings), 2024
[Paper] [Code]

Beyond Composite Indices: Social Determinants Improve Heart Failure Prediction
Chase Fensore, Aniruddha Deshpande, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Shivani Patel, Joyce C. Ho Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), 2026
[Paper] [Code]