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Health Informatics Graduate Awarded NIH Training Fellowship to Increase Diversity in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Master of Science in Health Informatics alumnus Jordan Hilsman (MSHI ‘23) has been selected among a competitive pool of nationwide candidates for an eight-month National Institutes of Health training program called AIM-AHEAD to increase researcher diversity in artificial intelligence and machine learning

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Health Informatics Faculty Help Drive $10 Million Leidos Partnership for Using AI Tools in Health Care

Assistant Professors Ahmad P. Tafti and Yanshan Wang are contributors to Pitt’s Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence (CPACE), which announced a $10 million partnership with the technology company Leidos to advance AI in health care.

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Creating Best Practices in Artificial Intelligence

SHRS faculty and researchers are stepping forward to ensure that AI is used in the most responsible way to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health care delivery, and most importantly, to improve patient outcomes.