Judy Gichoya, MD, MS, is an interventional radiologist at Emory University in Atlanta. We begin by talking about Dr Gichoya’s early days in Kenya where she participated in building OPEN MRS, the world’s leading open-source EMR platform. We then talk about her work in using AI to combat bias and social injustices in medicine and the importance of diversifying the datasets we use in AI work today.
03:00 Origins in Kenya, building OpenMRS, path to AI
14:00 Research topics of interest in the Gichoya Lab (Emory) such as bias in AI
21:00 steps we can take to combat bias in datasets
27:00 work on federated learning
36:00 advice to medical students / early-career med students interested in the field
43:00 balancing clinical work and informatics research
50:00 favorite food from hometown!
The MaML Podcast - Medicine & Machine Learning