Oct 12, 2023
Hosts: Sabrina
Hsueh PhD
Adela Grando, PhD
Guest: Regina Barzilay, School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of AI & Health in the Department of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the AI Faculty Lead at MIG Jameel Clinic
In this
episode, part of a special collaboration between
ACM ByteCast and the American
Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)’s For Your
Informatics podcast, hosts Sabrina Hsueh and
Adela Grando welcome Regina
Barzilay, a School of Engineering Distinguished
Professor of AI & Health in the Department of Computer Science at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the AI Faculty Lead
at MIT Jameel Clinic. She develops machine learning methods for
drug discovery and clinical AI. In the past, she worked on natural
language processing. Her research has been recognized with the
MacArthur Fellowship, an NSF Career Award, and the AAAI Squirrel AI
Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity.
Regina is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Regina
describes her career journey, and how a personal experience with
the healthcare system led her to work on an AI-based system for the
early detection—and prediction of—breast cancer. She explains why
entering the interdisciplinary field of clinical AI is so
challenging and offers valuable advice on how to overcome some of
these challenges. Regina also opines on new models for using AI,
including the promise of ChatGPT in healthcare. Finally, she talks
about inequity in medicine, and offers actionable insights on how
to mitigate these shortfalls while moving the field of clinical AI
forward.