Welcome to the very first episode of the Medicine and Machine Learning Podcast, AKA the MaML Podcast brought to you by the Medicine and Machine Learning Club of the University of Minnesota Medical School. We are a group of students passionate about learning more about the future of medicine and AI. This Podcast will feature interviews from prominent figures in academia, industry, and medicine exploring the cutting edge of healthcare’s newest frontier: medicine & machine learning.

My guest today is Dr. Christopher Weight, the new Director of Urologic Oncology at the Cleveland Clinic. In addition to this role, Dr. Weight is currently helping build a new center for AI and Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. In this episode, we will be talking about his unique path in medicine and how it led to building one of the largest and most comprehensive kidney cancer imaging datasets we have today.