The Promise and Perils of AI in Medicine
Speaker: Dr. William Weeks, MD, PhD, MBA
Affiliation: Microsoft
Date: August 2024
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Speaker bio
William B. Weeks, MD, PhD, MBA, is a physician-economist leading Microsoft’s Philanthropic AI for Health effort. There, he conducts research in concert with not-for-profit organizations and academic centers designed to improve health and health outcomes, applying AI in imaging, public health, and large language modeling. He works with customers to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more by helping payers, providers, pharmaceuticals, pharmacies, and policymakers achieve the quadruple aim and improve care value for the patients and populations they serve.
Dr. Weeks has published two books and over 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts examining economic and business aspects of health care services utilization and delivery, physicians’ return on educational investment, health care delivery science, and health care value. Dr. Weeks has been honored with the 2009 National Rural Health Association Outstanding Researcher Award, the 2016 Jerome F McAndrews Award for excellence in research from the National Chiropractic Medical Insurance Corporation Group, the 2016 Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair at Aix-Marseille University, and a 2020-23 Fulbright Specialist Award. Dr. Weeks’ research has been funded by CMMI, NIH, the Commonwealth Fund, the National Chiropractic Medical Insurance Corporation Group, the VA, AHRQ, and Bupa. Dr. Weeks is board certified in Adult Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry and has an active, unrestricted license to practice medicine in New Hampshire.
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