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Jun 2025
45m 28s

Artificial Intelligence for the Clinicia...

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
About this episode
Welcome back to our series on AI for the clinician! Large language models, like ChatGPT, have been taking the world by storm, and healthcare is no exception to that rule – your institution may already be using them! In this episode we’ll tackle the fundamentals of how they work and their applications and limitations to keep you up to date on this fast-moving, exciting technology.

Hosts:
Ayman Ali, MD
Ayman Ali is a Behind the Knife fellow and general surgery PGY-3 at Duke Hospital in his academic development time where he focuses on data science, artificial intelligence, and surgery.

Ruchi Thanawala, MD: @Ruchi_TJ
Ruchi Thanawala is an Assistant Professor of Informatics and Thoracic Surgery at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and founder of Firefly, an AI-driven platform that is built for competency-based medical education. In addition, she directs the Surgical Data and Decision Sciences Lab for the Department of Surgery at OHSU. 

Phillip Jenkins, MD: @PhilJenkinsMD
Phil Jenkins is a general surgery PGY-3 at Oregon Health and Science University and a National Library of Medicine Post-Doctoral fellow pursuing a master’s in clinical informatics.

Steven Bedrick, PhD: @stevenbedrick
Steven Bedrick is a machine learning researcher and an Associate Professor in Oregon Health and Science University’s Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology.


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