Assistant Professor
NYU Langone Health
New York City, New York, United States
Eric Karl Oermann (EKO) (@ekoermann) is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Radiology, and Data Science at NYU. He studied mathematics at Georgetown University with a focus on differential geometry. Dr. Oermann then spent six months with the President’s Council on Bioethics studying human dignity under the mentorship of reknowned physician-philosopher Edmund Pellegrino prior to abandoning graduate studies in mathematics to pursue medicine. Dr. Oermann has won numerous awards for his scholarship including fellowships from the American Brain Tumor Association and Doris Duke Charitable Research Foundation where he was first exposed to neural networks and deep learning. He has published over one-hundred manuscripts spanning basic research on machine learning, neurosurgery, and the philosophy of medicine. Dr. Oermann was selected as one of Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 for his work on using machine learning to develop prognostic models for cancer patients. Dr. Oermann completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Verily (Google Life Sciences), and served as an advisor at Google-X on Project Amber. He has founded or co-founded three startups in the medical AI space. He is interested in understanding and protecting human intelligence by using machine learning to better understand the human brain and the human brain to improve machine learning.
Sunday, April 23, 2023
9:03am – 9:05am PST
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(SST) Artificial Intelligence for for Brain Tumors: The Path Forward
Sunday, April 23, 2023
1:33pm – 1:43pm PST
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