The Computational Medicine Podcast
The future is computational. Interviews with clinicians, academics and business leaders involved in computational healthcare work. | Get in touch: hi@alexdavidson.me
Episodes
14 episodes
#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...
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1:42:54
#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
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1:37:24
#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 le...
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1:00:22
#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 ...
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41:53
#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 ro...
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49:30
#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...
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#008 Cutting through medical AI hype and how to actually deploy AI in healthcare - Dr Hugh Harvey
Dr Hugh Harvey is managing director at Hardian Health, a healthcare consultancy that provides clinical, research and medical affairs support to AI or healthtech products. After studying medicine at Imperial College London, he trained and worked...
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1:03:49
#007 Developing Augmented Reality for Surgery - Dr Philip Pratt
Dr Phillip Pratt is cofounder of Medical iSight, a company that brings augmented reality into the operating theatre. He has a PhD in Neural Systems Engineering from Imperial College London and after a career as a quantitative analyst he was app...
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#006 AI for drug discovery - Dr Patrick Walters
Dr Patrick Walters is chief data officer at Relay Therapeutics, a company that uses computational techniques to transform the drug discovery process. Since being founded in 2016, the company IPOs in 2020, and is currently valued at...
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49:56
#005 Deploying AI in Ophthalmology at Moorefield's - Professor Pearse Keane
Professor Pearse Keane works at the forefront of the use of machine learning in ophthalmology. He is a consultant Ophthalmologist at the Moorefield’s Eye Hospital in London, the world’s oldest eye hospital. He also is a professor of medical art...
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#004 Building computational skills, co-founding a start-up and challenges in healthcare machine learning - Dr Chris Lovejoy
Dr Chris Lovejoy studied medicine at Cambridge, after 2 years of medical training he undertook the Machine Learning and Computational Statistics masters at UCL. After working as a Machine Learning researcher, he now has co fou...
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#003 McKinsey as an ex-doctor, co-founding a medical start-up and core values - Dr Imran Mahmud
Dr Imran Mahmud studied medicine at Oxford followed then a public health masters at Harvard. He left working in the NHS to join McKinsey as a consultant. Following this, he co-founded Nye Health, a telemedicine company that has since pivoted to...
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45:59
#002 Lessons from podcasting and summarising medical AI research for doctors - Dr Mustafa Sultan
Dr Mustafa Sultan is a F1 doctor working in Manchester, while he was a medical student he started the Big Picture Medicine podcast and has since interviewed a long list of impressive guests including various medical start-up founders, and high ...
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#001 Computational Oncology - Dr Matthew Williams
Dr Matthew Williams is a Consultant Oncologist at Imperial College Healthcare Trust. He aso leads the Computational Oncology group at Imperial College London. His academic work focuses on mathematical and computational approaches to clinical pr...
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