NEJM AI Grand Rounds
Episodes
Doctronic’s Autonomous AI with Dr. Byron Crowe
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Doctronic CMO Dr. Byron Crowe describes how administrative complexity can interfere with timely, effective treatment, and how AI may help address thos...
AI’s Next Frontier with Dr. Kyunghyun Cho
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kyunghyun Cho is a leading AI researcher best known for co-authoring a landmark 2014 paper that introduced neural machine translation. In this epi...
Epic’s Approach to AI with Seth Hain
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Clinical AI only helps patients if clinicians and health systems trust it. Seth Hain describes how Epic is building foundation models that respect ins...
Bridging AI and Biology to Tackle Medicine’s Hardest Problems with Dr. Marinka Zitnik
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For Dr. Marinka Zitnik, the promise of AI in medicine begins with acknowledging the scale of the problem. Most patients with rare diseases have no app...
What Values are in AI? A Conversation with Dr. Zak Kohane
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For Dr. Zak Kohane, this year’s advances in AI weren’t abstract. They were personal, practical, and deeply tied to care. After decades studying cl...
From Hindsight Bias to Machine Bias: Dr. Laura Zwaan on Learning from Mistakes
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a cognitive psychologist, Dr. Laura Zwaan studies how humans make—and learn from—mistakes. In this episode of NEJM AI Grand Rounds, she brings ...
Medicine, Machines, and Magic: Dr. Jonathan Chen on Medical AI
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Jonathan Chen joins the hosts to discuss his path from teenage programmer to Stanford physician-informatician and why machine lea...
From Clinician to Chief Health AI Officer: A Conversation with Dr. Karandeep Singh
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Karandeep Singh brings two worlds together: programming and medicine. In this conversation, he explains how early experiments with code led him to...
Radiologist Turned CEO: Dr. Jeremy Friese on AI for Prior Authorization
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jeremy Friese knows medicine from both sides. A practicing radiologist and technology executive, he’s seen firsthand how administrative burden u...
Can AI Accelerate Science? Dr. Andy Beam on AI’s Next Frontier
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Andy Beam has trained models, mentored scientists, and used data to quantify the value of treatments. In this episode of NEJM AI Grand Rounds, Raj...
Google’s Efforts to Build Patient-Facing AI: A Conversation with Drs. Alan Karthikesalingam and Anil Palepu
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of NEJM AI Grand Rounds, guests Drs. Alan Karthikesalingam and Anil Palepu of Google walk co-hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Beam through th...
Rewriting the Clinical Playbook: Dr. Shiv Rao on Scaling Empathy with AI
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Shiv Rao, cardiologist and CEO of Abridge, joins hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Beam on NEJM AI Grand Rounds for an inspiring conversation at the inter...
Pixels to Protocols: Building the AI Future of Pathology with Dr. Faisal Mahmood
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Faisal Mahmood, Associate Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, joins hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Bea...
From Bedside to Boardroom: How AI, Multi-Omics, and New Business Models Are Shaping the Biomedical Frontier with Morgan Cheatham
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan Cheatham joins hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Beam on NEJM AI Grand Rounds to discuss the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence in health ca...
From Clinical Notes to GPT-4: Dr. Emily Alsentzer on Natural Language Processing in Medicine
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Emily Alsentzer joins hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Beam on NEJM AI Grand Rounds to discuss the evolution of natural language processing (NLP) in medi...
Health Care at the Breaking Point: Dr. Zak Kohane Returns to NEJM AI Grand Rounds
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this return appearance on NEJM AI Grand Rounds, Dr. Zak Kohane joins hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Beam to discuss the evolving landscape of AI in medi...
The Economics of AI: A Conversation with Larry Summers
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of NEJM AI Grand Rounds, hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Beam interview Larry Summers about artificial intelligence’s transformative poten...
Partners in Diagnosis: ChatGPT, a Mother’s Intuition, and a Doctor’s Expertise with Courtney Hofmann and Dr. Holly Gilmer
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of NEJM AI Grand Rounds, hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Beam interview Courtney Hofmann, a mother whose use of ChatGPT led to her son’s d...
The Pulse of Progress: AI in Cardiology with Dr. David Ouyang
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of NEJM AI Grand Rounds, hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Beam interview Dr. David Ouyang, a cardiologist and AI researcher at Cedars-Sinai M...
AI at the Frontlines: Dissecting Clalit’s Roadmap for the Future of Public Health with Noa Dagan and Ran Balicer
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of NEJM AI Grand Rounds, hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Beam interview Dr. Noa Dagan and Dr. Ran Balicer from the Clalit Research Institute...
From Petri Dishes to Pitch Decks: Cultivating Health Care’s AI Future with Vijay Pande
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of NEJM AI Grand Rounds, hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Beam interview Dr. Vijay Pande, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) whe...
Love and Large Language Models: Voices of the Future with Dr. Rohaid Ali and Dr. Fatima Mirza
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of NEJM AI Grand Rounds, hosts Raj Manrai and Andy Beam interview Dr. Rohaid Ali and Dr. Fatima Mirza, a married couple and chief resi...
AI and the Evolution of Medical Thought with Dr. Adam Rodman
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the AI Grand Rounds podcast, Dr. Adam Rodman shares his unique journey from a historian to a physician deeply interested in the int...
Translational AI in Medicine: Unlocking AI’s Potential in Health Care with Nigam Shah
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the NEJM AI Grand Rounds podcast, Dr. Nigam Shah, a distinguished Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and inaugural Chief ...
From Theory to Therapy: The Evolution of AI in Medicine with Dr. Daphne Koller
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the AI Grand Rounds podcast, Dr. Daphne Koller charts her professional trajectory, tracing her early fascination with computers to ...
From Single Neurons to AI Systems: The Evolution of Decision Sciences in Medicine with Dr. Eric Horvitz
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the AI Grand Rounds podcast, Dr. Eric Horvitz describes his career evolution from an interest in neurobiology to significant contri...
AI Frontiers with James Zou: The Future of Multi-Modal AI in Medicine
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the AI Grand Rounds podcast, Dr. James Zou shares his personal journey to discovering machine learning during his graduate studies ...
Interrogating AI Fairness and Bias in Dermatology and Beyond with Dr. Roxana Daneshjou
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the AI Grand Rounds podcast, Dr. Roxana Daneshjou shares her journey from a childhood influenced by early exposure to science to he...
Medicine as a Knowledge Processing Discipline with Dr. Zak Kohane
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Zak Kohane shares his journey into AI and medicine, reflecting on early influences from science fiction authors and programming e...
Examining Open-Source Frameworks and AI in Medicine with Interventional Radiologist Dr. Judy Gichoya
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dr. Judy Wawira Gichoya, Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at Emory University School of Medici...
Machines & Genes: The Future of AI in Biology with Dr. George Church
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, vanguard geneticist Dr. George Church recounts his storied career from his early fascination with computers and science to his pionee...
Mark Cuban on AI, Trust in Health Care, and Skip Bayless
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we’re joined by business magnate and investor Mark Cuban. Cuban describes his journey from humble beginnings as a self-taught progr...
An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove: A Conversation with Dr. Atul Butte
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, pioneering informatician Dr. Atul Butte guides listeners through his storied career, from his early days as a pediatric endocrinologi...
The Double-Edged Sword of AI, with Dr. Ziad Obermeyer
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. Ziad Obermeyer delves into the complex issues of bias, safety, and generalizability of medical AI. Dr. Obermeye...
Can AI Be Harmful? A Conversation with MIT’s Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi has been at the forefront of medical machine learning for several years. In this episode, she describes her group’s work and he...
Google’s Exploration of Large Language Models in Medicine
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have proven highly capable of a broad array of natural language tasks including summarizing text, generating...
No Doctor Needed? Dr. Michael Abramoff on the Potential of Autonomous AI
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Michael Abramoff is a renowned ophthalmologist and medical AI pioneer. In this episode, we explore his groundbreaking work that led to the first F...
The GPT-4 Episode: Microsoft’s Peter Lee on the Future of Language Models in Medicine
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Peter Lee has shaped computer science from academia, government, and industry. He has chaired a major computer science department, built a new tec...
Dr. Lily Peng: AI for Ophthalmology and the Challenges of AI in the Real World
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Lily Peng has driven major medical AI efforts along the long and arduous path from ideation to deployment. From publishing a landmark study in 201...
Dr. Pranav Rajpurkar on AI and Radiology
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Pranav Rajpurkar has been at the forefront of medical AI for his entire career. As a graduate student in computer science at Stanford, he created ...
Dr. Euan Ashley on AI, Genomics, and Cardiology
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Euan Ashley is a pioneer. In 2010, he led the team that conducted the first clinical interpretation of a human genome, and he holds the record for...
Trailer: Introducing NEJM AI Grand Rounds Podcast
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
[Transcript] How will AI change clinical practice and healthcare, and how will it impact the patient experience? Who are the people pushing for chang...