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

Application of Artificial Neural Networks and Functional Brain Connectivity to Inform Pediatric Headache

Guilherme Aldeia, Clara Moon, Julie Shulman, Navil Sethna, Allison Smith, Alyssa Lebel, William La Cava, Scott Holmes (2025)

The Journal of Pain

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Intersectional and Marginal Debiasing in Prediction Models for Emergency Admissions

Elle Lett, Shakiba Shahbandegan, Yuval Barak-Corren, Andrew M. Fine, William G. La Cava (2025)

JAMA Network Open

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Recent Posts

Interpreting a glass-box clinical prediction model of resistant hypertension

6 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.