Health and Explainable AI Podcast

Dr. Bradley Erickson, Director of the Mayo AI Lab, speaks with HexAI podcast host, Jordan Gass-Pooré in advance of the University of Pittsburgh’s annual AI Summer School program in Medical Imaging Informatics organized by Pitt's Health and Explainable AI Research Lab (HexAI) and the Computational Pathology and AI center of Excellence (CPACE). The episode simulates two different professional vantag...

Dr. Freddy Nguyen, a physician-scientist-entrepreneur and Director of MIT’s Catalyst Scholars Program, discusses his work at the frontier of translational research, diagnostics, precision medicine and healthcare innovation with Pit HexAI host Jordan Gass-Poore' and his involvement in co-founding Nine Diagnostics, a startup spun out of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Focusing on innovat...

George Demiris, Associate Dean for Research and Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and a “Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor” discusses the transformative integration of responsible and explainable artificial intelligence into nursing, elder care, and hospice settings with Pit HexAI host Jordan Gass-Pooré. The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing is...

Martin Raison, Co-founder and CTO of Nabla speaks with Pitt HexAI host Jordan Gass-Pooré about Nabla’s central role in architecting the agentic AI era in healthcare. Martin details Nabla’s evolution from a specialized ambient scribing tool into a comprehensive "Adaptive Agentic Platform". They discuss the significant challenges involved in making it possible for AI agents to perform comp...

Ekaterina Kldiashvili, Vice Rector for Research at Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy, and Pitt’s HexAI podcast host, Jordan Gass-Pooré, discuss public health, the incorporation of AI into healthcare, responsible uses of AI, medical education and inter-university collaboration. Ekaterina and Jordan explore opportunities and concerns surrounding commercial AI applications, noting that while AI...

Richard Bonneau, Vice President of Machine Learning for Drug Discovery at Genentech and Roche, provides Pitt’s HexAI podcast host, Jordan Gass-Pooré, with an insider view on how his team is fundamentally changing and accelerating how new drug candidate molecules are designed, predicted, and optimized. Geared for students in computational sciences and hybrid STEM fields, the episode introduces list...

Dennis Wei, Senior Research Scientist at IBM specializing in human-centered trustworthy AI, speaks with Pitt’s HexAI podcast host, Jordan Gass-Pooré, about his work focusing on trustworthy machine learning, including interpretability of machine learning models, algorithmic fairness, robustness, causal inference and graphical models. Concentrating on explainable AI, they speak in depth about the ex...

Jason Moore, Chair of the Department of Computational Biomedicine and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education (CAIRE) at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, speaks with Pitt’s HexAI podcast host, Jordan Gass-Pooré, about his work, the strategic investments his center is making in technology and specialized human expertise to support advanced AI researc...

Peter Maurer, Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, speaks with Pitt’s HexAI podcast host, Jordan Gass-Pooré, about the future impact of quantum sensing on biomedical research and diagnostics. Peter's research lab leverages the extreme environmental sensitivity of quantum systems to develop powerful sensors suitable for...

Karen Colbert, an AI strategist, data scientist, and Lead Math Faculty at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, speaks with Pitt HexAI Producer, Brent Phillips about tribal colleges and their mission and vision to revitalize language and culture through education, the indigenization of math and teaching math, computing and data science in the AI age, collaboration tools, data sharing and privacy,...

Anatea Einhorn, Research Assistant with the University of Pittsburgh’s Health and Explainable AI Research Laboratory, speaks with Pitt HexAI podcast host Jordan Gass-Pooré about her work and studies linking artificial intelligence and machine learning, statistics and public health, and about explainable AI, the future of work, and the importance of exchange programs and working abroad. Jordan and...

Janneta Tabakov, Enterprise Growth Lead with Perplexity who focuses on AI in biotech and biopharma speaks with Pitt HexAI Podcast host Jordan Gass-Pooré about her work at Perplexity, a popular and fast-growing new AI-powered answer engine that’s redefining search and information discovery in the AI era. Janneta and Jordan discuss how Perplexity (https://www.perplexity.ai/) makes information discov...

Yanshan Wang (PhD, FAMIA), Vice Chair for Research and Assistant Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, speaks with Pitt HexAI podcast host Jordan Gass-Pooré. Yanshan is also the interim Director of Generative AI with the University of Pittsburgh's Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence and he leads the Clinical Natural Language Processing and Artificial...

Pitt HexAI podcast host Jordan Gass-Poore’ speaks with three talented young student researchers from Ukraine who participated in the RAI for Ukraine program, a fully remote academic research program launched by NYU in partnership with the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv, Ukraine. The program conducts cutting-edge collaborative research on a range of responsible AI topics in collaborati...

Dr. Xenophon Papademetris, Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, and Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine speaks with Pitt HexAI guest host Jamie Gramz, Senior Director of Digital Strategy and Business Development with Siemens Healthineers. Jamie and Dr. Papademetris discuss Xenophon’s experience in medical image analysis, machine learning, and software d...

Pitt HexAI podcast host Jordan Gass-Poore´ speaks with Beth Bauer about data and digital knowledge in the AI age, exploring foundational, strategic, and people-focused perspectives. Beth, CEO of PosiROI, Co-Founder and CEO of Communities Connected, VP of The DataJam, and Global Board Co-Chair of Program & Projects for the Healthcare Businesswomen Association’s Women in Healthcare Giveback affi...

Ashwin Kumar, a PhD candidate at Washington University in St Louis, working on fair resource allocation and explainable AI, speaks with Brent Phillips, Pitt HexAI podcast producer, about the intricacies of fairness in AI systems and about balancing fairness and efficiency in complex systems like ride-sharing and healthcare resource distribution. The discussion dives into AI transparency, human-mac...

John Carbone, Adjunct Professor of Applied AI and Applied Data Science at Baylor University speaks with Zoe Menezes, a student at the University of Pittsburgh, and Brent Phillips, Pitt HexAI podcast producer about the future of education in the AI age and how universities are adapting to the emergence of applications like ChatGPT. John elaborates on how universities like Baylor are embracing chang...

Jordan Gass-Poore’, Pitt HexAI host, delves into the cutting-edge world of bioinformatics and cancer research with Dr. Aristotelis Tsirigos, a Professor of Medicine and Pathology and the Co-Director of Precision Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Tsirigos shares his journey from computer science and electrical engineering to becoming a leading figure in pathology and bioinformatics....

Fei Wang, Professor of Population Health Sciences and Emergency Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College and Founding Director of the WCM Institute of AI for Digital Health (AIDH) speaks with Pitt HexAI guest host Brent Phillips about Dr. Wang’s work at Cornell and about Cornell’s new Institute of AI for Digital Health. Dr. Wang and Brent also discuss new and existing data sources for health...

Adolph J. Yates Jr., MD, Chief of Orthopedics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside, speaks with Pitt HexAI guest host Jamie Gramz, Senior Director of Digital Strategy and Business Development with Siemens Healthineers, about Dr. Yate's work specializing in hip and knee replacement as well as knee arthroscopy and his work as a professor and vice chairman for quality manageme...

Elizabeth Skidmore, a Professor of Occupational Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh and Associate Dean for Research at Pitt’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, speaks with Pitt HexAI podcast host Jordan Gass-Pooré about Beth’s work as an occupational therapist and rehabilitation scientist with expertise in neurological rehabilitation. Beth and Jordan discuss rehabilitation sciences...

Dr. Sarah Wheeler, Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh, speaks with Pitt HexAI guest host Jamie Gramz, Senior Director of Digital Strategy and Business Development with Siemens Healthineers. Sarah and Jamie discuss Sarah’s work and expertise in clinical pathology and laboratory medicine and about the use of artificial intelligence for clinical diagnosis, robotics and a...

Dr. Dana Tudorascu, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh speaks with Pitt HexAI guest host Jamie Gramz, Senior Director of Digital Strategy and Business Development with Siemens Healthineers. Jamie and Dr. Tudorascu discuss how neuroimaging statistics and artificial intelligence are being used in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzhe...

Dr. Hooman Rashidi founding director of Cleveland Clinic’s Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute’s Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science and vice chair of technology innovation and computational pathology speaks with Pitt HexAI guest host Jamie Gramz, Senior Director of Digital Strategy and Business Development with Siemens Healthineers. Jamie and Dr. Rashidi, who will soon be...