Health and Explainable AI Podcast
Episodes
George Demiris on Proactive Healthcare and The Future of AI in Nursing and Aging
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
George Demiris, Associate Dean for Research and Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and a “Penn Integrates Knowledge Univ...
Martin Raison CTO of Nabla on Architecting the Agentic AI Era in Healthcare
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Raison, Co-founder and CTO of Nabla speaks with Pitt HexAI host Jordan Gass-Pooré about Nabla’s central role in architecting the agentic AI ...
Ekaterina Kldiashvili from the Tbilisi Medical Academy on Responsible Uses of AI, Medical Education and Inter-University Collaboration
07 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ekaterina Kldiashvili, Vice Rector for Research at Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy, and Pitt’s HexAI podcast host, Jordan Gass-Pooré, discus...
Richard Bonneau from Genentech on Drug Discovery, Computational Sciences and Machine Learning
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Bonneau, Vice President of Machine Learning for Drug Discovery at Genentech and Roche, provides Pitt’s HexAI podcast host, Jordan Gass-Pooré...
Dennis Wei from IBM on In-Context Explainability and the Future of Trustworthy AI
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dennis Wei, Senior Research Scientist at IBM specializing in human-centered trustworthy AI, speaks with Pitt’s HexAI podcast host, Jordan Gass-Pooré...
Jason Moore from Cedars-Sinai on the Incorporation of AI Agents into Precision Health
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Moore, Chair of the Department of Computational Biomedicine and Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education (CAIRE...
Peter Maurer from the University of Chicago on the Future Impact of Quantum Sensing on Biomedical Research and Diagnostics
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Maurer, Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, speaks with Pitt’s...
Karen Colbert on Pitt HexAI
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Colbert, an AI strategist, data scientist, and Lead Math Faculty at Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, speaks with Pitt HexAI Producer, Bren...
Anatea Einhorn on Pitt HexAI
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anatea Einhorn, Research Assistant with the University of Pittsburgh’s Health and Explainable AI Research Laboratory, speaks with Pitt HexAI podcast...
Janneta Tabakov from Perplexity on Pitt HexAI
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Janneta Tabakov, Enterprise Growth Lead with Perplexity who focuses on AI in biotech and biopharma speaks with Pitt HexAI Podcast host Jordan Gass-Poo...
Yanshan Wang on Pitt HexAI
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yanshan Wang (PhD, FAMIA), Vice Chair for Research and Assistant Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, speaks with Pitt Hex...
RAI for Ukraine Program on Pitt HexAI
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pitt HexAI podcast host Jordan Gass-Poore’ speaks with three talented young student researchers from Ukraine who participated in the RAI for Ukraine...
Xenophon Papademetris on Pitt HexAI
28 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Xenophon Papademetris, Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, and Radiology & Biomedical Imaging at Yale School of Medicine s...
Beth Bauer on Pitt HexAI
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pitt HexAI podcast host Jordan Gass-Poore´ speaks with Beth Bauer about data and digital knowledge in the AI age, exploring foundational, strategic, ...
Ashwin Kumar on Pitt HexAI
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ashwin Kumar, a PhD candidate at Washington University in St Louis, working on fair resource allocation and explainable AI, speaks with Brent Phillips...
John Carbone on Pitt HexAI
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
John Carbone, Adjunct Professor of Applied AI and Applied Data Science at Baylor University speaks with Zoe Menezes, a student at the University of Pi...
Dr. Aristotelis Tsirigos on Pitt HexAI
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan Gass-Poore’, Pitt HexAI host, delves into the cutting-edge world of bioinformatics and cancer research with Dr. Aristotelis Tsirigos, a Profe...
Fei Wang on Pitt HexAI
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fei Wang, Professor of Population Health Sciences and Emergency Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College and Founding Director of the WCM Institu...
Adolph Yates on Pitt HexAI
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adolph J. Yates Jr., MD, Chief of Orthopedics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside, speaks with Pitt HexAI guest host Jamie Gramz,...
Elizabeth Skidmore on Pitt HexAI
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Skidmore, a Professor of Occupational Therapy at the University of Pittsburgh and Associate Dean for Research at Pitt’s School of Health a...
Sarah Wheeler on Pitt HexAI
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sarah Wheeler, Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh, speaks with Pitt HexAI guest host Jamie Gramz, Senior Director of...
Dr. Dana Tudorascu on Pitt HexAI
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Dana Tudorascu, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh speaks with Pitt HexAI guest host Jamie Gramz,...
Dr. Hooman Rashidi on Pitt HexAI
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Hooman Rashidi founding director of Cleveland Clinic’s Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute’s Center for Artificial Intelligence and Da...
Morgan Cheatham on Pitt HexAI
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan Cheatham, a medical student and Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners, speaks with Pitt HexAI host Jordan Gass-Pooré about his backgroun...
William Hersh on Pitt HexAI
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
William Hersh, MD, a Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & S...
Shashank Manjunath on Pitt HexAI
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shashank Manjunath, a PhD student and researcher with the Dr. Aarti Sathyanarayana's Sath Lab at Northeastern University, speaks with Pitt HexAI g...
Vivek Nallur on Pitt HexAI
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vivek Nallur, a Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University College Dublin speaks with Pitt HexAI podcast producer Brent Philli...
Natalia Diaz Rodriguez on Pitt HexAI
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Natalia Díaz Rodríguez, an Assistant Professor focusing on trustworthy AI and responsible AI systems at the University of Granada, Spain and a resea...
Annika Schoene on Pitt HexAI
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Annika Schoene, a Research Scientist with Northeastern University specializing in natural language processing for mental health, speaks with Mythili T...
William Hsu on Pitt HexAI
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
William Hsu is a Professor of Radiological Sciences, Bioinformatics, and Bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a biomedic...
Jason Fries on Pitt HexAI
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Fries is a research scientist with the Shah Lab at Stanford University. In this episode Jason speaks with Pitt HexAI’s podcast host Jordan G...
Sriraam Natarajan on Pitt HexAI
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sriraam Natarajan is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Machine Learning at The University of Texas at Dallas. In this epi...
Peter Shen on Pitt HexAI
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Shen is Vice President of Digital and Automation at Siemens Healthineers and an industry expert on medical imaging and artificial intelligence. ...
Claudia von Vacano on Pitt HexAI
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Claudia von Vacano, the Executive Director of the D-Lab and the Digital Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley, speaks with Mythili Tiru...
Leah Reid, MD on Pitt HexAI
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leah Reid, MD, a board-certified internal medicine physician with clinical informatics experience, who is an online Master of Science in Health Inform...
Gaurav Kaushik from ScienceIO on Pitt HexAI
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gaurav Kaushik on launching ScienceIO and making healthcare data useful and accessible in the AI age. Jen Bees, Pitt HexAI’s Audio Engineer guest ho...
Dr. Isaac Kohane on Pitt HexAI
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Isaac Kohane on the impact of generative AI on health and biomedical informatics. Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD - Professor of Biomedical Informatics and ...
Davina Zamanzadeh on Pitt HexAI
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Davina Zamanzadeh, a PhD student studying computer science at UCLA speaks with Pitt HexAI Lab’s Mythili Tirumalasetty about clinical applications of...
Adam Yala on Pitt HexAI
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Yala, Assistant Professor of Computational Precision Health with UC Berkeley-UCSF's new joint program in Computational Precision Health talks abo...