David Wu - Residency, Clinical AI, and the Rapper Who Never Was

Welcome back David! Dr. David Wu co-founded our podcast back in the height of COVID and is now a radiation oncology resident at Stanford and advisor to an LLM-based startup called Jaide. Since our founding David has been a driving force in communicating the happenings in the medicine and machine learning space and we are excited to talk about his latest efforts in contributing to this area. Jaide uses patient reported outcomes to give physicians access to predictive modeling on disease evolution and eases physician documentation burden using state-of-the-art large language models. 

00:00:00 - Introduction 

00:01:31 - From feeling aimless after undergrad to a Stanford resident and advisor for an AI startup (Jaide)

00:05:31 - The beginnings of Jaide: Using LLMs to document patient outcomes 

00:07:57 -  LLMs in action - the first clinical trial in Brazil

00:11:03 - How do you use Jaide? 

00:12:30 - Could LLMs take away key skills from physicians’ training?

00:15:14 - What if Step 1 was the entry exam to med school? 

00:18:10 - What drew you to Stanford?

00:21:11 - Have you faced criticism/self doubt about pursuing so many things outside of traditional medicine? 

00:23:08 - Why rad onc?

00:26:20 - Best/worst med school and residency experiences - “I’m just gonna become a monk and retire” 

00:29:33 - Will AI replace doctors? AI isn’t even close in this one area.

00:35:06 - The double edged sword of AI

00:38:41 - How did you choose a specialty? Is the impact of AI important? 

00:39:45 - What got you into hip hop/rap? - “Artists make meaning out of suffering” 

00:43:45 - What gives your life meaning?

00:46:55 - What advice do you have for younger people concerned about the impacts of AI on medicine?

Jaide - jaide.care

Twitter - @davidjhwu 

Host: Nathan Keller

Twitter: @NathanKellerX

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathankeller1/

Producer: Saurin Kantesaria

Linkedin: Saurin Kantesaria