Healthcare AI Pioneers

Jesse chats with Dr. Kelly Bookman, Professor and Vice Chair for Operations for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Senior Medical Director for Informatics at UCHealth; and Dr. Jennifer Simpson, Professor of Clinical Practice in Neurology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus , and Senior Medical Director of Informatics at UCHe...

Jesse chats with Jon McManus, Vice President and Chief Data and AI Officer at Inova Health; Dr. Lindsey Stanton, Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer at Inova Health; and Dr. Sameh Saleh, Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer at Inova Health . Together, they discuss AI's impact on the practice of medicine and in the hospital setting, AI implementation and organizational structure, AI go...

Jesse chats with  Dr. Mark Townsend, Chief Clinical Digital Ventures Officer at Bon Secours Mercy Health  (BSM H) , and Dylan Clark, Chief Analytics and AI Officer at B SMH .  Together, they discuss  AI strategy and operational problem identification at B SMH ;  nursing ambient documentation  and  reducing nursing documentation burden ;  measuring AI-driven time savings ;   BSMH's  digital assista...

Jesse chats with Dr. Adrian Haimovich, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Division of Artificial Intelligence at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Dr. Smit Desai, Assistant Professor at Northeastern University and leader of the Conversational Human-AI Interactions Lab (CHAI Lab). Together, they discuss the potential for AI-powered voice agents in emergency depart...

Jesse chats with  Dr. Judd Hollander, Senior Vice President of Healthcare Delivery Innovation and Chief Virtual Care Officer at Jefferson Health and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University;  Dr. Bracken Babula, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Jefferson Health and  Clinical Associate Professor in Medicine at Thomas Jefferson Uni...

Jesse chats with  Hamed Zaribafzadeh,  Senior Data Scientist in the Department of Surgery  at Duke University, and Dr. Michael Kent, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology in the Ambulatory Anesthesiology Division and  Associate Vice Chair Perioperative Informatics  in the Department of Anesthesiology  at Duke University .  Together, they discuss  a recent report on healthcare AI at Duke; AI models...

Jesse chats with  Dr.  Roxana Daneshjou, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Dermatology at Stanford School of Medicine .   Together, they discuss  Roxana's journey into the healthcare AI world;  recent research on AI performance in healthcare tasks and claims of superhuman AI performance presented as clinical vignettes ;  takeaways from Health AI Week at Stanford; AI challenges fac...

Jesse chats with  Dr.  Travis Zack, Chief Medical Officer at  OpenEvidence  and Assistant  Adjunct  Professor and AI Researcher at the University of California, San Francisco .   Together, they discuss  OpenEvidence's  mission and its rapid adoption among physicians; how  OpenEvidence  differs from general-purpose AI platforms; Travis' background and role at  OpenEvidence ; the rationale behind th...

Jesse chats with  Dr. Raj Ratwani, Vice President of Scientific Affairs at the MedStar Health Research Institute, Director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine; and  Dr. Ross Filice, Chief of Imaging Informatics, Director of Research in the Department of Radiology, and Professor at M...

Jesse chats with  Dr. Thomas Dalton, Ass ociate  Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and  Dr. Andrew Jamieson Assistant Professor in the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Principal Investigator of Jamieson  Lab .  Together, they discuss  objective structured clinical examinations , how UT Southwestern created ...

Jesse chats with  Dr.  Christopher (Toff) Peabody, Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California  San Francisco,  Founder and Director of the UCSF Acute Care Innovation Center, an d  Associate Chief Medical Officer for Performance Excellence at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital ; and  Dr.  Lucas Zier , Interventional Cardiologist and Pulmonary Hypertens...

Jesse chats with  Dr. Heather Heaton, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Consultant, and Vice Chair of Clinical  Systems  Oversight at  Mayo  Clinic ; Dr. Shant Ayanian, Academic Hospitalist and Data Scientist in the Division of Hospital Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic; and Angie Griffin, Director of Strategy and Innovation for Clinical Systems at Mayo Clinic.  Together, they discuss  a s...

Jesse chats with Dr. Andrew Wong, Research Fellow at the National Clinician Scholars Program Institute  at the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, and Dr. Mike Burns, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for AI at the Unive...

Jesse  chat s  with  Dr. Bob Wachter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the   University of California, San Francisco .   Together, they discuss   Bo b 's  new  book,  A Giant Leap : How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future ;   why the current healthcare  AI  boom is  different from the many past waves of health tech  hype ;   unintended consequences...

Jesse chats with Dr. Rohit Sangal, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Medical Director of the Adult Emergency Department at Yale New Haven Hospital, and Director of the Clinical Operations and Administration Fellowship in Emergency Medicine at Yale; and Chris Chmura, Clinical Operations Manager of Emergency Services at Yale New Haven Hospital. Toget...

Jesse chats with Lisa Stump, Chief Digital Information Officer at Mount Sinai Health System and Dean for Information Technology of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Dr. Robbie Freeman, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at Mount Sinai Health System. Together, they discuss how Mount Sinai Health System thinks about its clinical AI strategy and is implementing scalable programs, how...

Jesse chats with Nassib Chamoun, Founder and CEO of Health Data Analytics Institute, and Brenda Campbell, Senior Consultant of Health Systems Innovations at Houston Methodist Hospital. Together, they discuss how Houston Methodist is operationalizing AI within its care delivery system, why it needed to rethink how it identifies and manages high-risk patients post-discharge, how predictive models an...

AI is moving fast, and in healthcare, the stakes couldn't be higher. In this trailer for  Healthcare AI Pioneers , host Jesse Pines, MD, emergency physician, researcher, and author of nearly 400 peer-reviewed publications, introduces a new podcast dedicated to cutting through the hype around healthcare AI. The show focuses on three core areas: clinician-facing AI in diagnosis and treatment, operat...