Dr. Jakub Tolar is the Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School and is a Distinguished McKnight Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Blood and Marrow Transplant & Cellular Therapy. He is the Vice President for Clinical Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Board Chair for University of Minnesota Physicians and co-leader of M Health Fairview.

We have come to know him not only as a researcher and dean, but as a passionate advocate who is putting artificial intelligence at the forefront of academic medicine.

1:00 MaML @ UMN

2:08 Tools to Alleviate Human Suffering

4:00 The Brain Machine

6:56 How do we know things are real?

9:00 Serving Minnesotans

10:19 Meet the Dean

16:48 Rare Genetic Disorders and ML

18:14 Mori et al. Article (see citation)

19:00 Medical Errors

20:45 AI in Medical Education (see citation)

24:25 Mistakes of Modern Living

24:50 Antiquity and Modernity

30:35 Data Ownership 

32:38 The EHR Conundrum

37:29 Technological Liberation

39:15 Epidermolysis bullosa

47:23 Dean Tolar's Advice

51:22 Future of AI in Medicine

54:50 Make Journaling a Part of Your Day!

Mori, J., Kaji, S., Kawai, H. et al. Assessment of dysplasia in bone marrow smear with convolutional neural network. Sci Rep 10, 14734 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71752-x

Lentz A, Siy JO, Carraccio C. AI-ssessment: Towards Assessment As a Sociotechnical System for Learning. Acad Med. 2021;96(7S):S87-S88. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000004104

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