The Dunleavy Foundation, led by Harvard Medical School alum Keith R. Dunleavy, gave HMS $6 million to expand educational opportunities for leveraging artificial intelligence in health care, the school announced last week.
The Dunleavy Fund for Clinical AI — composed of a $1 million grant and a $5 million endowed gift — will back clinical AI initiatives for graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
One of the fund’s primary goals is to expand the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Ph.D. Track, which HMS began offering in September as part of a broader shift to help students adapt to the changing medical landscape.
“To remain at the forefront of medical education, HMS must anticipate the physician of the future, practicing in an environment rich with cognitive support resources powered by artificial intelligence tools,” HMS Dean George Q. Daley ’82 told HMS News, which is run by the school.
Dunleavy, who founded the health care analytics company Inovalon, told HMS News that the fund will allow students to couple technology with an understanding of health care at large.
“We are hopeful that by supporting training that brings these fields together, we can help in some small way to bring the power of AI to the great needs of medicine and health care,” Dunleavy said.
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