EP 2 & 3 Dr. Ben Glicksberg, PhD - VP & Head of Data Science Character Biosciences
🚑 AI & Emergency Medicine: What's Next? In this episode, Dr. DJ Apakama & Dr. Ethan Abbott sit down with Dr. Ben Glicksberg, a leading AI researcher, to explore the evolving role of large language models (LLMs) and machine learning in healthcare.
🎙️ Featured Guest:
Dr. Ben Glicksberg – VP & Head of Data Science at Character Biosciences.
Formerly a Mount Sinai faculty member, now leading AI-driven research on disease modeling & drug discovery.
🧠 Key Topics:
✅ The shift from academia to tech – how AI is driving new opportunities.
✅ Predictive modeling & personalized medicine – using AI for disease progression tracking.
✅ The challenges of AI implementation in emergency medicine.
✅ Ethical concerns & ensuring AI-driven decisions are unbiased.
📄 Paper Discussed:
📰 New York Times Article – Examining the shift of academic researchers into the tech industry and its impact on medical AI research.
🧠AI for Predicting Emergency Room Admissions – This JAMIA study evaluates GPT-4’s accuracy in predicting patient admissions from the emergency department, comparing its performance to traditional machine learning models and demonstrating how retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) significantly enhances LLM decision-making in real-world hospital settings.
🔍 Why it Matters:
AI isn’t just changing medicine—it’s redefining careers & patient care. This episode dives into the intersection of AI, emergency medicine, and biotech innovation.
🎧 Listen now & stay at the forefront of AI in healthcare! EP2 EP3
