Clinical
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence in healthcare, the Clinical Workgroup plays a pivotal role in ensuring that AI-driven innovations are aligned with the clinical needs at VP&S. AI can enhance patient-centered care in multiple ways, including early diagnosis, personalized treatment plans, and clinician support in delivering high-quality care.
The Clinical Workgroup aims to validate AI models for clinical accuracy, usability, and safety while training clinical staff and providers on how to incorporate the models in patient care. The workgroup will evaluate and track AI tools, and create a governance process for its use. It will highlight best practices for AI in clinical care, lead focus groups for various clinical specialties within VP&S, and showcase tools that are deemed fit for use in clinical practice.
By bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI research and frontline healthcare practice, the Clinical Workgroup will shape AI solutions at VP&S that are practical, trustworthy, and capable of transforming patient outcomes.
Meet Our Team
Timothy James Crimmins, MD
- Workgroup Co-Lead
- Chief Medical Information Officer
Research Focuses: vascular medicine, non-invasive vascular diagnosis, general internal medicine and medical education
Noémie Elhadad, PhD
- Workgroup Co-Lead
- Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Research Focuses: machine learning, human-centered AI, biomedical informatics, women's health
Namita Azad, MS, MPH
- Head of Digital Transformation
Abdulaziz Alkattan, MD
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Zachary Blumkin, PSYD
- Associate Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry)
Nicholas Burry, NP
- Family Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care
Jane Chaiyasit, MSN, BSN, DNP, AGNP-C
- Adult Nurse Practitioner
Jason Lin Chang, MD
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Pierre Adil Elias, MD
- Assistant Professor in Cardiology & Biomedical Informatics
Research Focuses: cardiology, imaging
Nehal Galal, DO
- Senior Medical Director, Columbia Primary Care
Holden Groves, MD
- Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
David Kessler, MD, MSc
- Professor of Pediatrics (in Emergency Medicine)
Nicole Krenitsky, MD
- Assistant Professor, Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Abraham Krikhely, MD
- Chief, Division of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery
Jennifer Kuo, MD
- Director, Interventional Endocrinology Program
- Vice Chair for Informatics, Department of Surgery
Rachel A. Lewis, MD
- Associate Chief Medical Information Officer
Karthik Natarajan, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Research Focuses: electronic health records, clinical decision support, information retrieval, text extraction, data quality, warehousing, data engineering, OMOP, OHDSI, clinical informatics, clinical research informatics
Elizabeth Park, MD
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
Soojin Park, MD, FAHA, FNCS
- Professor of Neurology (in Biomedical Informatics)
Research Focuses: machine learning, prediction, signal processing, decision support, device data, critical care
Benjamin Lewis Ranard, MD, MSHP
- Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC
Research Focuses: clinical decision support, sepsis, learning health systems, patient safety
Maya Rao, MD
- Leonard Stern MD Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology
Lauren Richter, MD
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics
Sarah Collins Rossetti, PhD, BSN, RN, FAAN, FAMIA, FACMI
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Nursing
Research Focuses: clinical informatics, CDS, AI implementation, UCD, healthcare process modeling, documentation burden reduction
Dorothy Sippo, MD, MPH
- Associate Professor of Radiology
Faramarz Samie, MD, PHD
- Professor of Dermatology
Richard Trepp, MD
- Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Siqin Kye Ye, MD
- Associate Professor of Cardiology
