BrainX Talks

Amol M. Joshi, PhD, is the Thomas H. Davis Professor in Business at Wake Forest University (WFU).   He holds a joint faculty appointment as an Associate Professor of Strategic Management in the WFU School of Business and as an Associate Professor of Innovation & Commercialization in the WFU School of Medicine.  Dr. Joshi is an inventor who helps others reinvent themselves . His passion is guid...

In this episode, we feature Dr. Kamal Maheshwari, MD, MPH, FASA.He is a distinguished anesthesiologist with extensive experience in clinical practice, research, and innovation. He completed his medical education and anesthesia training at the University of Delhi, India (1995-2004) before relocating to the United States in 2005 for advanced training in anesthesiology.  From 2009 to 2023, Dr. Mahesh...

Dr. Rashidi combines his passion for patient care, research and education with his unique training in bioinformatics and machine learning (ML) to create innovative new tools (i.e. MILO, STNG, Pitt-GPT, etc.) and resources (Hematology Outlines, Cleveland Clinic's AI course, etc.) that improve clinical practice, research and education. His experience in ML dates back to his graduate years at UCS...

Indira Negi is a consultant with Global Health Labs working on AI ultrasound focused on Obstetrics in India and next steps for pediatric lung ultrasound, alongside the Gates Foundation. Before this she was a Senior Advisor and Deputy Director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and lead efforts to improve maternal and newborn health by investing in innovative devices and software that can hel...

Welcome to BrainX AI in Medicine Podcast series, where we bring in leaders within fields of AI and Medicine to discuss their cutting-edge research, explore boundaries of current knowledge, and provide insightful commentary on how to effectively lead the AI revolution in Medicine. Today's guest is Vivek Natarajan, who is a Research Scientist at Google leading research at the intersection of lar...

Michael A. Pfeffer, MD, FACP serves as Chief Information Officer and Associate Dean for Stanford Health Care and Stanford University School of Medicine. Michael oversees Technology and Digital Solutions (TDS), responsible for providing world class technology solutions to Stanford Health Care and School of Medicine, enabling new opportunities for groundbreaking research, teaching, and compassionate...

Dr. Castro has over 20 years of experience as a physician, entrepreneur, former Ceo of a medical health care system and author, and he is passionate about leveraging AI to transform healthcare delivery and outcomes as a Strategic advisor of ChatGPT & Healthcare. And yes we will be talking about his new book “ ChatGPT and Healthcare: The Key To New Future of Medicine” He works with healthcare p...

Yanshan Wang, PhD, FAMIA is vice chair of Research and assistant professor within the Department of Health Information Management. His research interests focus on artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and machine/deep learning methodologies and applications in health care. His research goal is to leverage different dimensions of data and data-driven computational approach...

Dr. Azra Bihorac is senior associate dean for research at the University of Florida College of Medicine and is the R. Glenn Davis Professor of Medicine, Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Physiology & Functional Genomics; the Lab Director of the Precision and Intelligent Systems in Medicine Research Partnership (PRISMAP); and Co-Director of the Intelligent Critical Care Center (IC3), a multi-discipl...

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Mohammad Ghassemi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU). He is an internationally renowned scientist and entrepreneur with extensive national and international consulting experience. He holds a Ph. D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in electrical engineering and computer science with a focus on arti...

Dr. Nazha is an internationally known expert and a keynote speaker in the application of artificial intelligence and novel digital technologies such as blockchain, IoT, and others in healthcare, pharma, and life sciences. He is also an internationally recognized expert in treating patients with leukemia. His research focuses on the use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learnin...

In this episode of BrainX talks we talk to Edward "Ed" Marx. Ed serves as Chief Executive Officer of Divurgent. Divurgent is a solutions provider focused on what matters most to our client partners. Divurgent disrupts the typical value equation by using data-infused, flexible, and scalable solutions that demonstrate and quantify value for our partners. Edward is active on Boards, writing books and...

Dr Janak Gunatilleke has more than 16 years’ experience in healthcare. He has a specialised skill set, with experience both working as a medical doctor and developing and implementing data-driven and technology-enabled improvements in healthcare. He co-founded the AI technology firm Conscient AI Labs . Janak was a member of the evaluation panel for the NHS AI in Health and Care Award and is a fell...

In this episode we are joined by Dr. Pallavi Tiwari, Associate Professor in Radiology, and the co-director of Imaging and Radiation Sciences in the Carbone Cancer Center at University of Wisconsin Madison. Her research interests lie in machine learning, data mining, and image analysis for personalized medicine solutions in oncology and neurological disorders. Over the last 15 years, her research h...

I speak with Dr. Jorge Salluh, Intensivist and Researcher, critical care dept D'or Institute for research and education and Professor, Postgrad program, Federal university, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jorge wears many hats that cross the space of big data analytics, AI and ML, this includes being a Co-founder of Epimed, Board member of BRICNet (brazilian research in intensive care network) and LOGIC (...

Dr. Anthony Chang attended Johns Hopkins University for his B.A. in molecular biology prior to entering Georgetown University School of Medicine for his M.D. He then completed his pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center and his pediatric cardiology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is currently the Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer (CIIO)...

Omar Badawi, PharmD, MPH, FCCM is the Director of Medical Device Safety for the National Evaluation System for health Technology Coordinating Center (NESTcc) where his primary role is in the development of an active surveillance program for medical device safety. Prior to NESTcc, he led the research for developing product-related predictive algorithms and decision support tools for acute care tele...

Dr. Reddy is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare researcher based at the Deakin School of Medicine besides being the founder/chairman of Medi-AI, a globally focused AI company. He also functions as a certified health informatician and is a World Health Organisation recognised digital health expert. Further, he is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and a certified he...

In this episode, we are joined by Professor Karin Verspoor, Executive Dean of the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. We discuss her inspirational journey in applying various AI techniques to healthcare including self-harm detection, chem tables classification, information extraction in chemical p...

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Suchi Saria as we discuss her journey starting as an engineer applying AI solutions to healthcare including development of state of the art prediction models, doing strategy and advocacy at the highest level of Government organizations to her recent very exciting startup called Bayesian Health. Suchi Saria is the John C. Malone Associate Professor of computer...

Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor of Computational Biology at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India and a fellow of the Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. He was a visiting faculty member at Stanford University, School of Medicine from February 2017 to January 2019. He received...

Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, is a board-certified anesthesiologist with more than 15 years of experience in academic medicine, leadership, education, research, quality, and technology development, working collaboratively within and among various countries, departments, academic institutions, and industry. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at UCL...

Excited to bring to you all Dr. Leo Anthony Celi, a name that I grew up with reading and admiring his landmark work in big data analytics pertinent to critical care. As clinical research director and principal research scientist at the MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology (LCP), and as a practicing intensive care unit (ICU) physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Leo...

Jihad Kaouk, MD FACS, FRCS (Glasgow) is an American Board certified Urologist and the Director of the Center for Advanced Robotic and Image Guided Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute. He also serves as a Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, the Vice Chair of Enterprise Surgical Operatio...

Dr. Narges Razavian is an assistant professor in the Departments of Population Health and Radiology conducting research in the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science (CHIDS), and a member of its Predictive Analytics Unit. In this episode we dig deeper into her team's recent work with using graph neural networks to represent EHR data. Dr. Razavian's team was able to validate the...