McCaig Research Day

Jacob Jaremko, MD, PhD (University of Alberta)

 Implementing AI in diagnostic imaging: should we be afraid? Challenges and opportunities.

Jacob Jaremko is a Professor of Radiology and Adjunct Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, a practicing board-certified Pediatric and Musculoskeletal radiologist and partner at Medical Imaging Consultants, and co-founder of 3 startup companies including MEDO.ai.  He has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering.  He is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Fellow of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. His research has focused on developing objective imaging biomarkers of disease in ultrasound and MRI, and on implementing AI-augmented medical imaging diagnostic tools at the clinical point of care -- building the 21st-century stethoscope.