Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar: Dr Drew Williamson

Speaker: Dr Drew Williamson (Emory University) 

Abstract: Generative models such as ChatGPT have catapulted AI further into the
mainstream than ever before, while interested parties in healthcare have begun to test
these models in medical settings.  However, these models are rarely purpose-built for
medical applications and the majority of those that do exist are targeted at a broader
segment of healthcare than any individual provider practices.  I’ll discuss the
design, training, and evaluation of PathChat, our multimodal generative model created
specifically for pathology.  I’ll also discuss possible future directions in this line
of inquiry.  

About the speaker: Drew Williamson completed a BA in Mathematics at Oberlin College, an
MD at Case Western Reserve University, residency in Anatomic Pathology at Brigham &
Women’s Hospital, and fellowships in Molecular Genetic Pathology and Clinical
Informatics at Mass General Brigham.  This training was followed by postdoctoral
research in the lab of Faisal Mahmood, PhD at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard
Medical School.  A board certified pathologist, Drew’s research focuses on the
applications of deep learning-based methods to pathology data, from histology images to
genomics to, most recently, natural language.  He is now an Assistant Professor in the
department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at Emory University.  

This event will be online.  

Zoom: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84087321707