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

Automated Echocardiographic Detection of Congenital Heart Disease Using Artificial Intelligence

Platon Lukyanenko, Sunil Ghelani, Yuting Yang, Bohan Jiang, Timothy Miller, David Harrild, Nao Sasaki, Francesca Sperotto, Danielle Sganga, John Triedman, Andrew J. Powell, Tal Geva, William G. La Cava, Joshua Mayourian (2026)

Preprint

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The future of algorithmic nondiscrimination compliance in the affordable care act

William G. La Cava, I. Glenn Cohen, Jaya Aysola (2025)

npj Digital Medicine

nature.com  |  PubMed  |  pdf  |  code

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.