Thrilled with today's UCSF Dept. of Medicine residency match! A brilliant group of young physicians, hailing from 32 different med schools (most frequent: UCSF 8; UCLA 6; Harvard & Stanford 5; Columbia, NYU, Yale 3 each). Eight in our MD-scientist program.
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What a joy to chat with my old friend Rob Califf about the FDA under his leadership (under both Obama & Biden), the FDA today, AI regulation, misinformation, clinical research & more. We also discussed his memories of being a UCSF medicine resident back in the day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JJd...
Another highlight of being on CBS Mornings today was meeting The Pitt star Patrick Ball (who was on the show after me), along with Jon LaPook.
It shouldn't be too hard to pick out the real doctors in this picture, vs. the one who plays a doctor on TV.
Proud of my wife, Katie Hafner, who built & narrates a superb podcast (@lostwomenofsci.bsky.social) about women who made major contributions in STEM but went unrecognized in life. She spoke w/ Robin Young on NPR's Here&Now about LWOS & this season's subject, K. Blodgett. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
Excellent Rock Health analysis of survey on patients' use of AI tools for health info. Big finding: doubling of use in the past year.
Insight: healthcare orgs are implementing AI with lots of guardrails ("tortoise"); patients are diving in ("hare").
I'm quoted.
rockhealth.com/insights/the...
I've spent a lot of time thinking about UK healthcare (incl. chairing a 2016 NHS task force on digital transformation). It was great to speak to top UK health policy journalist Alastair McLellan for the Health Services Journal podcast on healthcare AI & "A Giant Leap."
www.hsj.co.uk/hsj-health-c...
I've known @dgorenstein.bsky.social for 2 decades and have always found him to be extraordinarily thoughtful – not afraid to ask tough questions and to grapple with nuance and, yes, tradeoffs. It was great to chat with him about healthcare AI on his Tradeoffs podcast. tradeoffs.org/2026/03/05/w...
My latest Substack:
Why predictions that radiologists will be replaced by AI (including, famously, by genAI founding father and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton) have been wildly off base, and what that teaches us about job replacement for doctors.
robertwachter.substack.com/p/why-do-you...
The healthcare AI landscape gets more dynamic and interesting each day. My conversation with Roy Perlis, Harvard/MGH professor and AI editor JAMA, on where the field is today, implications for doctors and med education, and more. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
A thrill to be on CBS Mornings today talking AI and Healthcare (and about my book, "A Giant Leap") with host Nate Burleson and Dr. Jon LaPook.
The interview (4 minutes) is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfyN...
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We talk with physician and writer Bob Wachter about why he’s cautiously optimistic that artificial intelligence will usher in a ‘golden age’ of medicine — and the questions he still has about these po...
JAMA+ AI Editor in Chief Roy Perlis, MD, MSc, spoke with Robert M. Wachter, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, for JAMA+ AI Conversations...
A new podcast from Lost Women of Science tells the story of Katharine Burr Blodgett, who invented nonreflective glass while working at General Electric, but who is often forgotten.
