Under the Same Sky with Dr. Leo Anthony Celi of MIT
On July 27, 2023, Abner Mason, founder and CEO of SameSky Health, hosted a discussion with Dr. Leo Anthony Celi (MD, MPH, MSc), Clinical Research Director and Principal Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Computational Physiology at MIT. The conversation focused on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare and the opportunities and challenges Dr. Celi is concerned about as the healthcare industry moves full speed ahead with AI investments and initiatives.
Dr. Celi says, "I think the promise of AI is the promise of every health product, which is to improve health outcomes. But I think that there is a tagline: To improve outcomes equitably so that everyone benefits, and everyone is given the opportunity to reach the best health status given the conditions and context."
There are, however, concerns about whether AI will simply further the health disparities we see today — or be the way to solve them.
View the event summary or watch the full recording.
About Dr. Leo Anthony Celi
Leo Anthony Celi is currently the Clinical Research Director and Principal Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Computational Physiology at MIT and a practicing intensivist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Dr. Celi’s work focuses on scaling clinical research to be more inclusive through open access data and software, particularly for limited resource settings; identifying bias in the data to prevent them from being encrypted in models and algorithms; and redesigning research using the principles of team science and the hive learning strategy.
Dr. Celi completed his medical degree at the University of the Philippines, followed by postgraduate training in internal medicine, critical care medicine, infectious diseases and biomedical informatics at Cleveland Clinic, Harvard, Stanford and MIT. He has published numerous papers in machine learning not just in critical care medicine but across different specialties such as ophthalmology, radiology, surgery, nursing, bioethics, among others.
Share this post:
