William La Cava

William La Cava is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a core faculty member of the Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children’s Hospital. He received his PhD from UMass Amherst with a focus on interpretable modelling of dynamical systems. Prior to joining CHIP, he was a post-doctoral fellow and research associate in the Institute for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Recent Papers

The Benefit of the Doubt Phenomenon in Emergency Triage Assignment Disparities

Blanca Romero Mila, Helena Coggan, Andrew M. Fine, Yuval Barak-Corren, Ben Y. Reis, Jaya Aysola, Pradip Chaudhari, William G. La Cava (2026)

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Deep Learning-Based Automated Echocardiographic Measurements in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

Platon Lukyanenko, Sunil Ghelani, Yuting Yang, Bohan Jiang, Timothy Miller, Peter Higgins, Manouk Kirakosian, Kaitlyn Tracy, Janet Kane, David Harrild, John Triedman, Andrew J. Powell, Tal Geva, William La Cava, Joshua Mayourian (2026)

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Recent Posts

Interpreting a glass-box clinical prediction model of resistant hypertension

5 minute read

About our recent HUMIES award-winning algorithm for clinical prediction models

Translating Intersectionality to Fair Machine Learning

1 minute read

A new perspective on how this social theory relates to fair machine learning.