Matt Diamond, MD, PhD, is Chief Medical Director of the FDA’s Digital Health Center of Excellence. Dr. Diamond provides leadership for digital health policy development and implementation for emerging technologies including artificial intelligence. Prior to joining the Agency, Dr. Diamond served on leadership teams of large and small technology companies, including as Chief Medical Officer at Nokia, and as Medical Director at Fossil Group. He earned his MD and PhD (biophysics) from the Mount Sin...
May 12, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Joy Kincaid is our guest today from OncoHealth, which has just launched their new digital telehealth platform supporting cancer patients and their families. Joy was formerly VP of Population Health at Optum. 1:06 “So our first question is.. tell us about your path” 7:25 talking about Optum 11:50 OncoHealth 13:48 Iris Digital Health platform 37:35 Talking about the Healthcare Industry 45:56 future of digital medicine in 10-20 years? 48:40 “the movement of the Tao is returning” 51:45 advice to rec...
Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Description: Margaret Elizabeth Ross, M.D., Ph.D. is a Nathan Cummings professor in neurology and director of the Center for Neurogenetics at the Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. To learn more, check out the Ross Lab website ! 1:30 Introduction 4:00 An Intro to AI 10:15 What are Neural Tube Defects? 16:30 Publications from the Ross Lab 21:00 The Ross Lab's Use of AI 30:00 Clinical Applications of Genetic Research 31:00 Spina Bifida Outcomes 32:...
Apr 13, 2022•49 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Description: Neal Khosla is the founder and CEO of Curai Health, a digital health startup making big waves in the primary care space. To learn more, please visit curaihealth.com. 1:00 Tell us about your path and how you came to the intersection of medicine and machine learning 13:15 - Most common patient demographic served 15:45 - Story of how Curai began. + history of medicine 29:00 - Can med + AI reason better than us? + vision for Curai 40:30 - When should patients go into clinic? 44:40 How h...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 1
"Because Life needs Art to explicate its meaning, and Art needs Technology to keep its edge bleeding."
Mar 27, 2022•2 min
Yvonne Lui, MD, is the associate chair of radiology of NYU Langone Health. Today we discuss FastMRI, the interesting collaboration between NYU and Facebook AI. We explore how machine learning can enhance image reconstruction following an MRI scan. 0:00 Background on MRI 2:36 Intersection of Medicine and Machine Learning for Dr. Lui 6:40 Current Research Projects 11:40 MRI partnership with Facebook AI & MRI Image reconstruction 17:12 Models for research in clinical trials 21:30 Why Facebook i...
Nov 21, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 20
David Lindsay is the CEO of Oncora, a data, documentation, and personalized care solution for specialty oncology. Oncora is currently implemented in many major hospital systems, including Northwell Health, MD Anderson, Mass General Children's, and Scripps Health . David founded the company during his MD/Ph.D. training at the University of Pennsylvania. 0:00 Introduction 1:15 David Lindsay tells his story 5:00 Initial Idea for a company bringing AI to oncology 7:35 When did David decide to start ...
Nov 05, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Carmen Aguirre is a 4th-year medical student, visual jockey (VJ), and NFT artist. Here we sit down and discover what pushes her to continue developing her passions for medicine and artificial intelligence. You can find more info about her work here: https://linktr.ee/Neurite 0:00 Alex gives some background on NFT's 2:50 Background and Initial Involvement with NFT's 5:50 Seeing stigma around mental health conditions 9:10 Building a community around NFT's 9:40 The process of creating NFT's 13:20 W...
Oct 22, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In our first ever two-interviewee episode we welcome Doctors Shannon Haymond and Christopher McCudden. Dr. Haymond is the Vice Chair for Computational Pathology and Director of Mass Spectrometry at Lurie Children’s hospital of Chicago and an Associate Professor of Pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. McCudden is the Vice Chair for the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the University of Ottawa and a Clinical Biochemist in the Division of Biochem...
Oct 08, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Shanen Boettcher is a former general manager at Microsoft, product manager at Netscape, and now a PhD student at the University of Saint Andrews currently studying AI Ethics and Spirituality. Shanen was recently featured in a New York Times Article titled, "Can Silicon Valley Find God?" He is a pioneer in this field and deftly explores two very disparate topics to deeper probe the pressing questions of our generation. In this interview we discuss how artificial intelligence can facilitate positi...
Sep 24, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Dr. Jakub Tolar is the Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School and is a Distinguished McKnight Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Blood and Marrow Transplant & Cellular Therapy. He is the Vice President for Clinical Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Board Chair for University of Minnesota Physicians and co-leader of M Health Fairview. We have come to know him not only as a researcher and dean, but as a passionate advocate who is putting artificial intelligence at the...
Sep 10, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Dr. James Zou of Stanford University is an inaugural Chan-Zuckerberg investigator and faculty director for the university-wide AI for Health program. Dr. Zou recently published a paper in Nature which is making waves in the clinical trial world because it is causing us to rethink how we set eligibility criteria for clinical trials. Using an ML approach, he shows that by changing such criteria, we can make trials both more inclusive, opening them up to way more patients, while at the same time sa...
Aug 23, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 13
In this episode we discuss a novel idea in the healthcare and AI space: using Swarm Learning and blockchain technology for decentralized and confidential machine learning on clinical data. This promising new framework for collaborative research improves both algorithm performance and preserves patient privacy. This idea has been pioneered by Dr. Joachim Schultze, who recently published an exciting new paper on the subject in Nature. Dr. Joachim Schultze is a professor of Genomics and Immunoregul...
Aug 06, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Professor Glenn Cohen is a James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law at Harvard University. Professor Cohen is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law and is the author of more than 150 articles appearing in such places as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The American Journal of Bioethics, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He also leads the Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law , which is part of t...
Jul 23, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Dr. Vivian Lee, MD, Ph.D., MBA is currently President of Health Platforms at Verily, an Alphabet Company. Dr. Vivian Lee is also the author of the latest book “The Long Fix,” a book about solving America’s healthcare crisis. Dr. Lee has accomplished much in her diverse career. She received a doctorate in medical engineering from Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, her MD from Harvard Medical School, was valedictorian at NYU Stern School of Business, authored over 200 peer-reviewed research publications,...
Jul 09, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Dr. Faisal Mahmood is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Computational Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Mahmood recently published an exciting new paper this year where he and his team built a deep learning model to accurately identify tumors of unknown origin on pathological slides (Lu et al., Nature 2021) Pathology is one of the central pillars of medicine and here we really dive deep into how machine learning is pushing the boundaries of the field ...
Jun 23, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Dr. Nneka Comfere is a Dermatologist and Dermopathologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. We discuss Dr. Comfere's discovery of visual beauty within dermatology and how this can be applicable in a machine learning setting. We also talk about the possible uses for dermatoscopes and artificial intelligence to fill gaps in care based on location. Dr. Comfere's take on AI from a clinician's perspective is accessible to not only medical professionals, but also those seeking to learn more about h...
Apr 14, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Ian Pan, MD, is a Kaggle Grandmaster, radiologist resident at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a rising star in the medicine and AI field. Kaggle competitions are international data science competitions that are both very competitive and prestigious. We talk about Ian's path to medicine and AI as well as the various strategies he’s used to become one of the top coders globally in this burgeoning new field. Ian also gives some great advice on how to get started and we close with some of his ...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Anouk Stein, MD, is a radiologist and AI Data Specialist at MD.ai, a healthcare start-up based in NY. We discuss Dr. Stein's journey to MD.ai as well as her current work in the medical AI space. Dr. Stein provides some great advice for anyone looking to get started in practical machine learning. We also talk about some of the exciting kaggle competitions held by MD.ai as well as the importance of external data validation. We close with some great advice for our listeners from Dr. Stein on how to...
Apr 13, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Judy Gichoya, MD, MS, is an interventional radiologist at Emory University in Atlanta. We begin by talking about Dr Gichoya’s early days in Kenya where she participated in building OPEN MRS, the world’s leading open-source EMR platform. We then talk about her work in using AI to combat bias and social injustices in medicine and the importance of diversifying the datasets we use in AI work today. 03:00 Origins in Kenya, building OpenMRS, path to AI 14:00 Research topics of interest in the Gichoya...
Feb 19, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Daniel Tse, MD, is a product manager at Google Health. In this episode, we talk about his unconventional path to healthcare and AI, and discuss the career angst that many may feel when they wonder that if the path they are on is the right path. I can’t say that we’ve discovered the perfect answer in this interview, but I will say that Dr. Tse is someone who has thought deeply about this question as you can see from his unique career and will probably provide some good words of advice. Had a real...
Dec 30, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Jack Moore is a product manager at Qventus, a healthcare start-up based out of Mountain View, California. In this episode, we go into depth about how he and his team are using machine learning to improve the efficiency of hospitals such as the University of Minnesota’s MHealth system. One example we discuss is how Qventus builds and deploys models to improve patient care and reduce ICU bed wait times. At the end, we spend time talking about bias and race in medicine and how we can use AI to comb...
Nov 30, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Miguel Alvarado is the CTO of Lumiata, a healthcare AI company based in SF. In this episode, we talk about Miguel’s unconventional journey from Microsoft in the 90s all the way up until the present moment where he is helping bring the power of big data and AI to patients, providers, and insurers. Just like Bruce Wayne, Miguel works during the day, but at night, has an alter ego. we will talk about his passion as an underground house and techno DJ and finally, we will close with a conversation ab...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the very first episode of the Medicine and Machine Learning Podcast, AKA the MaML Podcast brought to you by the Medicine and Machine Learning Club of the University of Minnesota Medical School. We are a group of students passionate about learning more about the future of medicine and AI. This Podcast will feature interviews from prominent figures in academia, industry, and medicine exploring the cutting edge of healthcare’s newest frontier: medicine & machine learning. My guest to...
Aug 31, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 1
