The MaML Podcast - Medicine & Machine Learning

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 Pr...

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 a...

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 Sch...

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 profe...

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.

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 Noki...

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...

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:...

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...

"Because Life needs Art to explicate its meaning, and Art needs Technology to keep its edge bleeding."

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 w...

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 h...

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 a...

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 &...

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 questio...

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...

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 criter...

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 ex...

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 als...

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...

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 med...

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 persp...

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 burgeon...

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...

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. 0...