Dr. Timothy B. Lautz - Best of the Best in Pediatric Surgery 2025

Google's DeepMind AlphaFold is solving protein structure prediction, helping researchers develop new treatments faster.

IBM Watson Health analyzes complex patient data to assist doctors in making better decisions.

AI technologies are not replacing doctors, they are giving them superpowers, accelerating drug discovery, personalizing treatment and handling administrative tasks more effectively.

ChatGPT is already being used to assist in decision making and ensuring clinicians have the right information at their fingertips when they need it.

Machine learning is already being used in diagnostic imaging, helping doctors detect diseases like cancer earlier and more accurately.

Predictive analytics using machine learning helps forecast health risks, allowing doctors to intervene before problems become severe.

Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a replacement for human expertise.

Prompt engineering is a rising field; doctors need to understand how to accurately prompt AI to get the best results.

Generative AI can create content including text, images, audio and video, opening new doors to medical education, research and patient engagement.

AI is not here to replace doctors but to assist them, working best when paired with human experts.

Medicine is about human connection, listening, empathizing and making complex decisions that require experience and intuition.

AI is streamlining administrative tasks like clinical documentation, with AI able to generate patient summaries instantly, saving hours of paperwork.

When creating AI content and dealing with patient information, it is very important to use local generative AI models instead of large language models that share information externally.

The platform being used for AI should be disclosed when creating AI-generated content.

At USU, a team is creating a virtual patient connected to generative AI using local generative AI, feeding the virtual patient with virtual cases to make the patient act like they have that medical case, then injecting that into virtual reality.