Dr. Max Feinstein is a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist and notably, a successful YouTuber. He has written on topics like AI’s role in future healthcare, vaping’s impact on anesthesiology, and recognizing burnout in medicine. Outside of the operating room, he somehow balances fellowship training, teaching, clinical work, and producing popular YouTube videos, demystifying anesthesia. Today we talk about his winding career path, vision for AI in the operating room, and the ethical implications o...
Apr 28, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Welcome back David! Dr. David Wu co-founded our podcast back in the height of COVID and is now a radiation oncology resident at Stanford and advisor to an LLM-based startup called Jaide. Since our founding David has been a driving force in communicating the happenings in the medicine and machine learning space and we are excited to talk about his latest efforts in contributing to this area. Jaide uses patient reported outcomes to give physicians access to predictive modeling on disease evolution...
Feb 15, 2025•49 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Dr. Steven Hart is a Senior Associate Consultant in AI at Mayo Clinic who has played a key role in shaping genomics and digital pathology with GenomeGPS, Mayo Clinic’s primary DNA sequencing workflow. His groundbreaking contributions have led to advancements in understanding inherited cancer risk and improving digital pathology workflows. With over 100 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Hart’s innovative algorithms are driving efficiency in genetic predisposition testing, reducing unnecessary proce...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Ran Shaul is the chief product officer and co-founder of K Health. With his robust background as a successful founder, Ran has been pivotal in transforming how we approach medical diagnostics and personalized treatment. Under his leadership, K Health has developed innovative AI-driven solutions, including a partnership with Cedars-Sinai and Mayo Clinic. Ran's dedication to improving the patient experience by leveraging technology is reshaping healthcare delivery, making it more efficient and acc...
Aug 31, 2024•46 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Dr. Robert Dürichen leads the machine learning analytics team at Arcturis Data, a company focused on processing and analyzing large-scale electronic health record (EHR) datasets. His current research uses small and large language models to enrich EHR datasets from unstructured patient notes and improve quality through standardization techniques. Hosts: Nathan Keller + Madeline Ahern Twitter: @NathanKell57664 + @maddie_ahern Audio/Video Editor + Art: Saurin Kantesaria Linkedin: Saurin Kantesaria ...
Aug 11, 2024•48 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Dr. Nina Kottler is the associate chief medical officer of clinical artificial intelligence and vice president of clinical operations for Radiology Partners, the largest radiology practice in the US, serving over 3,250 hospitals and other healthcare facilities, interpreting over 53 million exams annually. Host: David Wu Twitter: @davidjhwu Audio Producer: Aaron Schumacher LinkedIn: Aaron Schumacher Video Editor + Art: Saurin Kantesaria Instagram: saorange314 00:00:58 What brought you to the inte...
Dec 27, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Munjal Shah is the co-founder and CEO of Hippocratic AI, a new startup in Generative AI + Healthcare. Hippocratic is building a safety-focused large language model specifically built for the healthcare industry. Host: David Wu Twitter: @davidjhwu Audio Producer: Aaron Schumacher LinkedIn: Aaron Schumacher Video Editor + Art: Saurin Kantesaria Instagram: saorange314 Time Stamps: 00:00:58 What brought you to the intersection of medicine and artificial intelligence? 00:06:20 Overview of the America...
Oct 24, 2023•58 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Dr. Mamdani is a professor, pharmacist, and epidemiologist. He is the Vice President of Data Science and Advanced Analytics at Unity Health Toronto and Director of the University of Toronto Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM). Dr. Mamdani’s team bridges advanced analytics including machine learning with clinical and management decision making to improve patient outcomes and hospital efficiency. Dr. Mamdani is also Professor in the Temerty Facu...
Oct 02, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 8
CardinalKit (now Spezi) is an open-source framework for Digital Health Applications and Research. They were recently featured in the news for releasing HealthGPT, an experimental iOS app that lets you query your health data. Spezi is housed in the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign and directed by Oliver Aalami, MD with Vishnu Ravi, MD as lead architect. Also joining us on this interview is postdoc Paul Schmiedmayer, PhD. Spezi provides a suite of tools to build modern, interoperable digital he...
Aug 14, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Dereck Paul, MD is a cofounder and the CEO of Glass Health, an AI-powered medical knowledge management and clinical decision-making platform that helps clinicians provide better patient care. Previously, he was an internal medicine resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and a medical student at the UCSF School of Medicine. Host: David Wu Twitter: @davidjhwu Audio Producer + Video Editor + Art: Saurin Kantesaria Instagram: saorange314 Social Media: Nikhil Kapur Time Stam...
Jul 14, 2023•58 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Jerry Liu is the co-founder and creator of LlamaIndex (formerly known as GPT-Index), an interface that allows users to connect their data to LLM’s such as Chat-GPT. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Princeton and has worked at companies such as Quora, Uber, and Robust Intelligence prior to starting LlamaIndex. Host: David Wu Twitter: @davidjhwu Audio Producer: Aaron Schumacher LinkedIn: Aaron Schumacher Video Editor + Art: Saurin Kantesaria Instagram: saorange314 Social Media: Nikhil Kapur ...
Jun 21, 2023•49 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Dr. Ryan earned both a doctorate of medicine (M.D.) and master in public health (M.P.H.) degree from the University of Connecticut in 2001. He completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, including a chief residency and cardiology fellowship. In 2014 Dr. Ryan started Boards and Beyond, an online lecture library used by medical students across the world to prepare for board exams. In 2022, Dr. Ryan sold his company to McGraw Hill and will contin...
Jun 01, 2023•57 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Mushtaq Bilal is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern Denmark. He earned his PhD in comparative literature from Binghamton University. He works on simplifying the process of academic writing and writes about ethical use of artificial intelligence for academic purposes. Host: Raeesa Kabir Audio Producer: Melanie Bussan Video Editor + Art: Saurin Kantesaria Instagram: saorange314 Social Media: Nikhil Kapur Music: Caligula - Windows96. Used with Artist's Permission. Introduction ...
May 14, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 3
John Kang, MD, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Radiation Oncology and Biomedical Informatics Lead at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research interests include the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to examine trends in the MaML space. He is a physician-data scientist passionate about uncovering the complex interactions underneath large datasets. He has over 10 years of experience in the novel applications of computational modeling and machine learning in biology sy...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Welcome back to the third season of the medicine and machine learning podcast! We are kicking off our year with a very unique episode. Our "guest" is ChatGPT! ChatGPT is an artificial-intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. Since its launch, ChatGPT has been an internet and media sensation. Usage is currently freely available to the public because ChatGPT is in its research and feedback-collection phase. This open interface has been hugely influential in bringing ...
Apr 14, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Dr Matthew Lungren is the Chief Medical Information Officer at Nuance Communications, a Microsoft Company. As a physician and clinical machine learning researcher, he maintains a part-time interventional radiology practice at UCSF while also serving as adjunct faculty for other leading academic medical centers including Stanford and Duke. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr Lungren led the Stanford Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI). This interview offers great insight ...
Feb 03, 2023•47 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Dr. Kaz Nelson is a Fellow of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Associate Designated Institutional Official in the Office of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She is also host of “The Mind Deconstructed.” In this podcast, Nelson and her brother George dispel myths, address listener questions, and inform the public about mental health and a life wo...
Jan 25, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Dr. John Sargent: Dr. John Sargent is the co-founder of BroadReach Group and an internationally recognized thought leader who brings extensive experience in health systems strengthening large-scale patient education programs and the creation and implementation of public-private partnerships in emerging markets. Prior to co-founding BroadReach Group, he obtained his Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School and gained experience as a strategic and operational consultant with expertise spanni...
Jan 14, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Dr. Joe Zhang is an Intensive Care doc and health data scientist. He holds a Wellcome Trust fellowship in health informatics and artificial intelligence (AI) at Imperial College London. He has extensive experience in developing and deploying informatics and data solutions in the NHS, and is currently working at the intersection of data science, policy, and infrastructure. contact@themamlpodcast.com Host: David Wu / Twitter: @davidjhwu Producer: Aaron Schumacher / Twitter: @a_schu95 Artwork &...
Nov 13, 2022•49 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Ittai Dayan, MD is the co-founder and CEO of Rhino Health, a distributed computing platform leveraging privacy-preserving federated learning. The platform allows medical researchers and healthcare AI developers to seamlessly access diverse and disparate datasets and use them to create better AI algorithms. contact@themamlpodcast.com Host: David Wu / Twitter: @davidjhwu Producer: Aaron Schumacher / Twitter: @a_schu95 Artwork & Video: Saurin Kantesaria Music: Caligula - Windows96. Used with Ar...
Oct 15, 2022•50 min
Beth Beadle, MD, PhD is the Director of Head & Neck Radiation Oncology at Stanford and co-creator of the Radiation Planning Assistant, a fully automated treatment planning assistant. 00:56 How did you come to the intersection of medicine and AI? 03:20 What is radiation oncology and why does it fit well with AI? 05:54 How has radiation changed in your lifetime? 09:19 What is the Radiation Planning Assistant? 13:10 Describe radiation oncology workflow before the use of the radiation planning a...
Oct 01, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Dr. Tignanelli is the scientific director for the Program for Clinical Artificial Intelligence at the UMN Center for Learning Health Systems Science, the director of UMN Center for Quality Outcomes, and the chair of the Health Information Technology (HIT) Committee for the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Tignanelli's work serving COVID-19 patients during the pandemic and advancing AI research earned him the title of “Health Care Hero” by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal in 2021. Follo...
Sep 14, 2022•27 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Dr. Chenyang Xu is currently the President and Co-Chairman of PVmed Technologies, Co-Founding Partner of Silicon Valley Future Academy, Managing Partner of Brightway Future Capital, and an Advisory Board Member for the Johns Hopkins University BME department and formerly Advisory Board Member for the UC Berkeley EECS Department. He was formerly the Chief Business Officer of RSP Systems and the GM and CTO of Siemens Technology to Business (TTB) at Berkeley where he led the Siemens’s North America...
Sep 03, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Steven Lin, M.D. is the service chief of family medicine for Stanford Health Care and the Founder and Executive director for the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team . Follow us on Twitter! @TheMaMLPodcast Host: Madeline Ahern / Twitter: @maddie_ahern Producer: Kirsi Oldenburg Artwork & Video: Saurin Kantesaria Music: Caligula - Windows96. Used with Artist Permission.
Aug 19, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Akilesh Bapu is co-founder and CEO of DeepScribe, an AI-powered medical scribe that passively records and understands a patient’s visit, generates a clinical note, and then seamlessly inputs it into the electronic medical record. Follow us on Twitter! @TheMaMLPodcast Guest: Akilesh Bapu / Twitter: @AkileshBapu Host: David Wu / Twitter: @davidjhwu Producer: Aaron Schumacher / Twitter: @a_schu95 Artwork & Video: Saurin Kantesaria Music: Caligula - Windows96. Used with Artist Permission. 1:10 -...
Aug 05, 2022•56 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Dr. Nigam Shah is Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) at Stanford Medicine and Chief Data Scientist at Stanford Healthcare. Dr Shah’s research focuses on combining machine learning and prior knowledge in medical ontologies to enable use cases of the learning health system. Follow us on Twitter! @TheMaMLPodcast Guest: Nigam Shah / Twitter: @DrNigam Host: David Wu / Twitter: @davidjhwu Producer: Aaron Schumacher / Twitter: @a_schu95 Artwork & Video: Saurin Kantesaria Music: Caligula...
Jul 21, 2022•52 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Dr. Quynh Nguyen is an assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. She received her PhD and MSPH in Epidemiology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Nguyen is a social epidemiologist focusing on contextual and economic factors as they relate to health. She joined us to talk about her projects that leverage technology and big data sources to investigate and address health di...
Jul 09, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Dr. Vineeta Agarwala is a general partner at a16z, physician, adjunct clinical professor at Stanford, previously at Google Ventures, Flatiron Health, having received her MD/PhD at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute. Many thanks to Ashlea Kosikowski from 1AB Media for making this episode happen! Follow us on twitter: @TheMaMLPodcast Host: David JH Wu @davidjhwu Producer: Aaron Schumacher @a_schu95 Design: Saurin Kantesaria
Jun 23, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Dr. Harald Kittler is a Professor in the Department of Dermatology at the Medical University of Vienna, in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Kittler is the founder of Dermachallenge, a 2018 startup which uses the principles of gamification to teach and train health professionals. As a dermatologist and dermatopathologist, Dr. Kittler has a unique insight into how future physicians might be trained in his profession. Enjoy some gamification of dermatology by joining the over 5,000 players at Dermachallenge ! ...
Jun 08, 2022•45 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Pat Walters is the Chief Data Officer and Patrick Riley is the senior VP of AI from Relay Therapeutics in Cambridge, MA. In this episode we discuss Relay's innovative approach to drug discovery, and how new developments in AI and computational modeling have accelerated this process.
May 26, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 5
