Intelligence-Based Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

Dr. Chang is the founder and medical director of the Medical Intelligence, Information, Investigation, and Innovation Institute (Mi4) that is supported by the Sharon Disney Lund Foundation. The institute is dedicated to the introduction and implementation of artificial intelligence in medicine and was the first institute of its kind in a hospital. Dr. Chang intends to build a clinician-computer scientist interface with a nascent society (the Medical Intelligence Society) and is the editor-in-chief of Intelligence-based Medicine, the accompanying journal for his book, Intelligence-Based Medicine: Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition in Clinical Medicine and Healthcare. He is the organizing chair for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMed) meetings around the world, the largest and most comprehensive clinician-led meetings that focus on applications of artificial intelligence in medicine and the dean of the nascent American Board of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (ABAIM). He is also the founding president of the Medical Intelligence Society (MIS). Alfonso Limon, Ph.D., is a principal at Oneirix, a consulting company developing market-leading technologies in computational intelligence for med-tech. Before joining Oneirix, Dr. Limon served as Director of Research at Intersection Medical, leading the development of algorithms for decision support systems to manage congestive heart failure. Before his work in industry, Dr. Limon was a Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College and a post-doctoral fellow at Harvey Mudd College in the math department and holds several impedance spectroscopy patents. Alfonso is part of the American Board of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, an Associate Editor of Intelligence-Based Medicine, and the Computational Science Research Center Board Chair at SDSU. Dr. Lopez-Jimenez is a Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, the Chair of the Division of Preventive Cardiology at Mayo Clinic and Co-Director of Artificial Intelligence in Cardiology in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. He is the Editor-In-Chief of Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health and the Co-Chair for the Advanced Healthcare Analytics workgroup, American College of Cardiology. Dr. Lopez-Jimenez did his cardiology fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, Florida and at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He holds a Master of Science degree from Harvard School of Public Health and a MBA degree from Augsburg University. Dr. Lopez-Jimenez has published more than 365 scientific publications and his scientific work has been cited more than 17,000 times. Dr. Sun is Professor and Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at Stanford. Her areas of clinical focus are hemodynamic monitoring and heart failure. Her methodologic areas of focus are the conduct of population-based cohort studies, predictive analytics, sex and gender epidemiology, patient engagement, data warehousing, and applications development. Her patient-centered research program leverages big data and digital technology to bridge key gaps in the delivery of care and outcomes for patients with heart failure and those undergoing cardiovascular interventions, through personalized risk stratification and characterizing long-term, patient-defined outcomes. She specializes in rapidly developing and deploying data-driven solutions to enhance clinical operations and patient care, and collaborates with policy makers to evaluate models of cardiac healthcare delivery. Dr. Sun sits on a number of editorial boards and scientific review committees internationally. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, many in leading journals including JAMA, JAMA Cardiology, JAMA Internal Medicine, Circulation, JACC, and Diabetes Care.