14 episodes
The Computational Medicine Podcast Dr Alex Davidson
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The future is computational. Interviews with clinicians, academics and business leaders involved in computational healthcare work. | Get in touch: hi@alexdavidson.me
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#014 Whole brain emulation, consciousness and cryonics - Dr Anders Sandberg
Dr Anders Sandberg is a senior research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University. His work is wide ranging, including the societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement and new technology, as well as assessing the capabilities and underlying science of future technologies. His research includes work on cognitive enhancement and technical roadmaps on whole brain emulation, neuroethi...
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#013 Effective Altruism, Podcasting, Clean Air and AI Safety - Fin Moorhouse
Fin Moorhouse is a researcher at Longview Philanthropy. Before that, he was a Research Scholar and assistant to Toby Ord at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute. He co-hosts a podcast called Hear This Idea, about about ideas for solving important problems, and the people working on them ranging form AI safety, Biorisk to global development. He writes about effective altruism, existential risk, and ways to improve the (longterm) future on his writing page. We discussed his wor...
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#012 Making medical data useful, ubiquitous and safe at the Oxford Internet Institute - Dr Jess Morley
Jess Morley is a PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University. Her work focuses on understanding the ethical, philosophical and practical ramifications of the increasing use of technology in healthcare. She was The lead tech advisor for data-driven technology at UK Department of Health and Social Care. She was a contributor towards the Goldachre review which looked at the efficient and safe use of health data for research and analysis and how this can benefit patien...
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#011 Publishing the highest quality medical AI papers at Stanford - Dr James Zou
Dr James Zou is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Computer Science at Stanford University. He works on making machine learning more reliable, human-compatible and statistically rigorous. He received his Ph.D from Harvard in 2014, and was at one time a member of Microsoft Research, a Gates Scholar at Cambridge and a Simons fellow at U.C. Berkeley. He joined Stanford in 2016 and his research is supported by the Sloan Fellowship and the Google and Tencent AI awards.He re...
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#010 Living longer and insights from co-founding a longevity startup - Dr Adam Bataineh
Dr. Adam Bataineh is co-Founder of Span Health, a health coaching company driven by data to improve longevity. The company's primary goal was to enhance human performance by assisting members in improving their sleep, nutrition, and exercise routines through scientifically based experiments. In 2022, Span Health was acquired by Eight Sleep for an undisclosed sum.What makes Adam particularly intriguing is his role as a pioneer in the field of Medicine. While Longevity is not typically recogniz...
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#009 Creating the world’s best AI doctor at Google Health - Vivek Natarajan
Vivek Natarajan is an AI researcher at Google Health working to accelerate biomedical AI’s translation from code to clinic and scale world-class healthcare to everyone. In this episode we spoke about about his work in helping to build MedPalm 1 and 2. The two best general medical machine Learning models right now are GPT4 and MedPalm 2 built by Google with both scoring >85% on the USMLE and similar other medical exams. Vivek tells us how his team at Googlehealth built MedPalm 1 and 2 and w...