{"id":302,"date":"2025-03-04T08:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T13:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:54:56","slug":"a-gift-to-ensure-ai-serves-patients-and-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/a-gift-to-ensure-ai-serves-patients-and-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"A gift to ensure AI serves patients (and doctors)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AIM_class_1-1024x642.jpg\" alt=\"The first AIM class at Harvard DBMI\" class=\"wp-image-305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AIM_class_1-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AIM_class_1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AIM_class_1-768x482.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AIM_class_1-1536x963.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AIM_class_1-2048x1284.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AIM_class_1-1200x752.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AIM_class_1-1980x1242.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m thrilled to announce an important investment from Jim Breyer in our <a href=\"https:\/\/dbmi.hms.harvard.edu\/education\/phd-program\/ai-medicine-phd-track\">Artificial Intelligence in Medicine PhD<\/a> track at Harvard Medical School&#8217;s Department of Biomedical Informatics. In an era where philanthropy often focuses on naming buildings, Jim&#8217;s vision stands apart\u2014he&#8217;s investing in brilliant minds who will shape healthcare&#8217;s future. Our program provides students not just with AI expertise, but with hands-on clinical understanding through rotations at Harvard-affiliated hospitals. This unique combination is exactly what we need to develop leaders who can create AI systems that are truly human-centered, that put patients and doctors first. As someone who has spent decades at the intersection of medicine and computation, I know firsthand that technology alone isn&#8217;t enough\u2014we need innovators who understand both the algorithms and the human beings they serve. Thanks to Jim&#8217;s forward-thinking support, we&#8217;re building a program that will cultivate precisely the kind of visionary leaders that patients and healthcare providers are waiting for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thrilled to announce an important investment from Jim Breyer in our Artificial Intelligence in Medicine PhD track at Harvard Medical School&#8217;s Department of Biomedical Informatics. In an era where philanthropy often focuses on naming buildings, Jim&#8217;s vision stands apart\u2014he&#8217;s investing in brilliant minds who will shape healthcare&#8217;s future. Our program provides students not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaklab.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}