Dr. Hoifung Poon Grand Rounds – Advancing Health at the Speed of AI
We invite you to join us for Dr. Hoifung Poon's talk at the Department of Surgery Grand Rounds. A breakfast buffet will be provided.
Advancing Health at the Speed of AI
The dream of precision health is to develop a data-driven, continuous learning system where new health information is instantly incorporated to optimize care delivery and accelerate biomedical discovery. In reality, however, the health ecosystem is plagued by overwhelming unstructured data and unscalable manual processing. Self-supervised AI such as large language models (LLMs) can supercharge structuring of biomedical data and accelerate transformation towards precision health. In this talk, I'll present our research progress on biomedical AI for precision health, spanning biomedical LLMs, multi-modal learning, and causal discovery. This enables us to extract knowledge from tens of millions of publications, structure real-world data for millions of cancer patients, and apply the extracted knowledge and real-world evidence to advancing precision oncology in deep partnerships with real-world stakeholders.
Dr. Poon is the General Manager at Microsoft Health Futures and one of the lead developers of ChatGPT. He leads biomedical AI research and incubation, with the overarching goal of structuring medical data to accelerate discovery and improve delivery for precision health. His team and collaborators are among the first to explore large language models (LLMs) in health applications, from foundational research to incubations at large health systems and life science companies, and ultimately to commercialization.