PSYC180/MED180 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare Ventures

Course Information

Location: Building 420 - Main Quad, Room 041

Zoom: Available in Canvas

Time: Tuesdays 11:30am - 1:20pm

Contact: psyc180-spr2223-staff@lists.stanford.edu

Office Hours : Tuesdays 1:30-2:30pm Gates Building Rm 300

Auditing: If you are interested in auditing the class, please fill out this form by April 7, 2023. You are welcome to join the class sessions in person.

Description:

The face of healthcare is changing - innovative technologies, based on recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), are radically altering how care is delivered. Startups are offering entirely new ways to diagnose, manage, treat, and operate. However, few ever reach the patient - those with much more than an idea and an algorithm; they have an intimate understanding of the healthcare landscape and the technical know-how to integrate AI solutions into the medical system successfully.

In this course, we tackle the central question: How can young students find feasible and impactful medical problems, and build, scale, and translate technology solutions into the clinic? Together, we will discover the transformative technologies of tomorrow that we can build today.

We encourage students of all academic backgrounds to enroll; the only prerequisite is a strong passion for technology in healthcare. Course may be taken for one unit (lecture only, 11:30AM-12:30PM); or two units, which entails attending discussion section in a Lean LaunchPad-style training program (12:30PM-1:20PM) and completing a project. The second half of each session, we will have a flipped classroom and will do experiential and team-based learning. It will involve discussions about team building, AI/Healthcare business ideas, and idea presentations.

Grading criteria for 1-credit students will be based on attendance and weekly reports regarding the summary of each week's lectures (assignments). In addition to these criteria, 2-credit students will submit a business idea report and will deliver a pitch presentation in the last session in front of an invited panel.

Instructor

Ehsan Adeli

Assistants


Edwin Pan	Stephen Su

Syllabus and Schedule

Week	Date/Session	Guest Lecturer All sessions are moderated by the course instructor	Topics	Materials and Assignments
Week 1	April 4, 2023 11:30am-12:30pm	Ehsan Adeli Course Instructor	Introduction [20 min] Couse Overview [10 min]: Goals, logistics, and the project U.S. Healthcare System Overview [20 min] Opportunity Evaluation (for course projects) [10 min]	Submit Assignment Solutions (Week 1) Signup to build your team Slides Video (Available on Canvas)
Week 1	12:30pm-1:20pm	Stephen Su, Stanford CS/MCS Student Founded startups at the intersection of health policy and data	A Digital Health Playbook An overview of various digital health companies, their business models, and what worked or didn’t work	Slides (Available on Canvas) Video (Available on Canvas)
Week 2	April 11, 2023 11:30am-12:30pm	Robert Chess Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business	The Healthcare Landscape Stakeholders and major players	Submit Assignment Solutions (Week 2) Video (Available on Canvas)
Week 2	12:30pm-1:20pm	Ehsan Adeli Course Instructor	Team building Project planning and preparing for lean lunchpad training	Slides (Available on Canvas) Video (Available on Canvas)
Week 3	April 18, 2023 11:30am-12:30pm	David Entwistle President and CEO of Stanford Healthcare (SHC)	The Healthcare Landscape Current tools and techniques How SHC is utilizing AI.	Submit Assignment Solutions (Week 3) Video (Available on Canvas) Pre-read Material: 1) How Foundation Models Can Advance AI in Healthcare, Dec 15, 2022 2) The Shaky Foundations of Foundation Models in Healthcare, Feb 27, 2023
Week 3	12:30pm-1:20pm	Edwin Pan Course Assistant	Search versus Execution - Design Thinking Search for a business model in the healthcare climate	Slides (Available on Canvas) Video (Available on Canvas)
Week 4	April 25, 2023 11:30am-12:30pm	Kevin Schulman Professor of Medicine, Associate Chair of Business Development and Strategy in the Department of Medicine Director of Industry Partnerships and Education for the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) Professor of (by courtesy) Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business	Healthcare Landscape, current tools, techniques, and pitfalls Economics of healthcare	Submit Assignment Solutions (Week 4) Pre-read Material: 1) An Intergenerational Evaluation of Medicare 2) Employer-Based Health Insurance and Employee Compensation Slides (Available on Canvas)
Week 4	12:30pm-1:20pm	Marcella Garcia Senior Software Quality Engineer at MEDIcept Inc. Former Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance Neurostimulation and Active Implantables (2022-2023 @ Nia Therapeutics); Medical Device (2018-2023 @MGRAQA) Former Director of Quality and Compliance Predictive Analytics Population Health (2021-2022 @ Health Data Analytics Institute); Digital Therapeutics (2019-2021 @ Happify Health)	Healthcare Tech Landscape from a regulatory point of view: A discussion around Medical Devices, Software as a medical device (SaMD), FDA, Quality, etc.	Pre-read Material: 1) NIST AI RMF 1.0 2) FDA GMLP 3) FDA Marketing Submission Recommendations for a Predetermined Change Control Plan for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Enabled Device Software Functions Slides (Available on Canvas)
Week 5	May 2, 2023 11:30am-12:30pm	Jordan Jacobs Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Radical Ventures Co-Founder & Founding Board of Directors at Vector Institute Board Of Directors at CIFAR (the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research)	Technologies on the Horizon Upcoming companies, problem areas, and policy breaks	Submit Assignment Solutions (Week 5) Pre-read Material and Slides (Available on Canvas)
Week 5	12:30pm-1:20pm	Ehsan Adeli Course Instructor	Customer Discovery and Validation Turning hypotheses to facts	[TBD]
Week 6	May 9, 2023 11:30am-12:30pm	Gopi Prashanth Founder, Spyn Inc Director Of Technology, Artificial Intelligence Systems, at Amazon Director Of Technology, Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence at Amazon Go	Case Study: Building to Solve the Problem at Scale Building to scale is what most entrepreneurial startups do. There is another kind of innovation, which is building to solve the problem which is already at scale. Gopi can speak to both ends of this spectrum and the similarities and differences in entrepreneurial mindset that is required to solve the myriad of challenges throughout the journey.	Submit Assignment Solutions (Week 6) Slides (Available on Canvas)
Week 6	12:30pm-1:20pm	Radoslaw (Radek) Chrapkiewicz Director of Engineering, Stanford Department of Biology	Team building and leadership practices in healthcare and medicine	Slides (Available on Canvas)
Week 7	May 16, 2023 11:30am-12:30pm	Vivien Ho Partner at Pear VC, with a focuse on health Founder of the Pear Female Founders Circle (supporting female technical founders)	Healthcare Innovation Practical considerations and common pitfalls Preparing and pitching ideas, as well as selling into traditional health systems and different GTM dynamics and benefits Lecture Title: Building a Healthcare x AI Startup Pitch	Submit Assignment Solutions (Week 7) Pre-read material: Podcast (Substack about Vivek Garg, CMO of Humana and his tips on startups selling into health plans) Slides (Available on Canvas)
Week 7	12:30pm-1:20pm	Ehsan Adeli Course Instructor	Projects Presentations - Session 1	Shared Slide Deck (private)
Week 8	May 23, 2023 11:30am-12:30pm	Kimberley Powell Vice President and General Manager, Healthcare at NVIDIA	Case Study: Healthcare Innovation, Integrating and scaling technologies within large healthcare systems Lecture Title: Shaping the Future of Medicine: The Revolutionary Impact of AI on Medical Imaging, Surgery, and Pharmaceutical Discovery	Submit Assignment Solutions (Week 8) Pre-read material: Medical Imaging Surgery Pharma
Week 8	12:30pm-1:20pm	Ehsan Adeli Course Instructor	Projects Presentations - Session 2	Shared Slide Deck (private)
Week 9	May 30, 2023 11:30am-12:30pm	Jonathan Berent CEO of NextSense Inc, Life-Hacker, Director @ X, Moonshot Factory	Case study Unlocking brain health with real-world data insights and practical, scientific wisdom for daily living	Submit Assignment Solutions (Week 9) [TBD]
Week 9	12:30pm-1:20pm	Leo Grady Founder and CEO of new AI healthcare company (stealth) CEO in Residence at Breyer Capital Former CEO of Paige (2019-2021) and Senior Vice President of Engineering at HeartFlow Inc (2012-2019)	Case Study: leading development and commercialization of advanced machine learning, AI, computer vision, diagnostic and digital health technologies that have made a significant impact on healthcare practice	[TBD]
Week 10	June 6, 2023 11:30am-1:20pm	Students and Ehsan Adeli, Course Instructor	Pitch Project Presentaions Panelists: [In Person] Vivien Ho, Partner at Pear VC (Investing in health: human, planet and financial health) [In Person] Jay Rughani, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (Bio + Health investing team) [Virtual] Sanjana Basu, Investor at Radical Ventures and Board Observer for PocketHealth. [Virtual] Daniel Mulet, Investor at Radical and Board Observer for Aspect Biosystems.	Submit Project Material

Resources

Reading List

Books (Not Requied)

Topol, Eric. Deep medicine: how artificial intelligence can make healthcare human again. Hachette UK, 2019.

Porter, Michael E., and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. Redefining health care: creating value-based competition on results. Harvard business press, 2006.

Topol, Eric. The patient will see you now: the future of medicine is in your hands. Basic Books, 2015.

Donaldson et al., eds. "To err is human: building a safer health system." The National Academies Press (2000).

Reis, Eric. "The lean startup." New York: Crown Business 27 (2011): 2016-2020.

Eyal, Nir. Hooked: How to build habit-forming products. Penguin, 2014.

Articles

Shrank, William H., Teresa L. Rogstad, and Natasha Parekh. "Waste in the US health care system: estimated costs and potential for savings." JAMA 322.15 (2019): 1501-1509.

Future Of Health: Top Five Digital Health Innovations For 2023, Forbes