The Medical AI Podcast

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The Medical AI Podcast is a 30 minute thrill ride of big ideas, hosted by Dr. Felix Beacher and Joe McKeating. Felix and Joe discuss the latest innovations with leading experts in everything from medical imaging, large language models, regulatory strategy, ethics and more. AI is revolutionizing healthcare. The Medical AI Podcast helps you understand what's going on in this exciting and rapidly changing field.

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Episode 41: The path to a medical AI holy grail: medical records analysis and automated treatment selection; with Mika Newton, CEO of XCures

May 02 2024 47 mins  
Episode 41: The path to a medical AI holy grail: medical records analysis and automated treatment selection; with Mika Newton, CEO of XCures

Episode 40: "The Interface of Medical AI Development and Regulation," with Pat Baird, co-chair of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation

Apr 29 2024 34 mins  
Pat Baird is co-chair of the AI committee for the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation and the International Medical Device Regulators Forum

Episode 39: "Accelerating AI Adoption in Healthcare with Tensor-Based Data Management," with Davit Buniatyan, CEO and Founder of Activeloop

Apr 18 2024 57 mins  
Davit Buniatyan is the CEO and Founder of Activeloop, a company advancing the way deep learning teams manage multi-modal datasets. In this episode, Buniatyan discusses how Activeloop's AI-native data format based on tensors is poise to help transform healthcare by enabling the digitization of medical images and streamlining workflows. Buniatyan shares insights into the primary

Episode 38: “Digitizing Pathology,” with Dr. David Klimstra, former Chair of the Pathology Department at Memorial Sloan Kettering and Chief Medical Officer at Paige AI

Apr 11 2024 45 mins  
In this episode, we explore the pioneering world of digital and computational pathology with Dr. David Klimstra, whose illustrious career spans from his former role as Chair of the Pathology Department at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to his current position as Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Paige AI. Dr. Klimstra shares his journey through the evolution of pathol

Episode 37: AI for psychotherapy. With Lindsay McKean, Psychotherapist

Mar 28 2024 28 mins  
Episode 37: AI for psychotherapy. With Lindsay McKean, Psychotherapist

Episode 36: AI for detecting liver disease. With Dr Neil Guha, Professor of Hepatology at the University of Nottingham

Feb 06 2024 34 mins  
The liver is a miracle of physiology, with over 1,000 known functions. This highlights the potential impact of liver dysfunction on various bodily systems. Also, liver disease is a major cause of death globally, and the numbers are on the rise. This adds up to a critical clinical need. Dr Neil Guha is Professor of Hepatology at the University of Nottingham, an NHS consultant and R

Episode 35: the use of Large Language Models in medical research, with Fiona Morrison

Jan 06 2024 32 mins  
A year ago, very soon after the release of ChatGPT there was an article in Nature with the curious title… ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove Since then, the use of LLMs in medical research has exploded, including as a coauthor of articles. But how is it being used? Does it matter? Does it undermine the human authors? And does it risk the qual

Episode 34: “A 20-Year Odyssey in Medical AI,” with Anitha Kannan, Head of Machine Learning at Curai

Nov 13 2023 51 mins  
Anitha Kannan is a founding member and the head of machine learning at Curai Health, an AI-powered virtual clinic on a mission to improve access to care at scale. Anitha spearheads the development of machine learning technology designed to reimagine care delivery and enhance patient outcomes. Prior to her work at Curai, Anitha held senior research positions at Facebook AI Research

Episode 33: “Sniffing out Cancer,” with Dr. Dan Heller, Head of the Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering

Oct 11 2023 44 mins  
Dr. Dan Heller leads the Cancer Nanomedicine Laboratory at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he develops advanced diagnostic technologies. His lab recently made headlines for creating a nanosensor "nose" that can sniff out ovarian cancer sooner than current tests. Using carbon nanotubes and machine learning, this artificial olfaction technology was able to id

Episode 32: Medical AI generalism and diabetic retinopathy, with RJ Kedziora, Co-founder of Estenda Solutions

Aug 23 2023 32 mins  
Episode 32: Medical AI generalism and diabetic retinopathy, with RJ Kedziora, Co-founder of Estenda Solutions