Machine Learning in Cancer Care with Shyam Natarajan, PhD

Oncology Overdrive

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Shyam Natarajan, PhD, about machine learning in cancer research and testing, using technological innovation to address disparities in health care trials and more. • Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 1:17 • About Natarajan 1:22 • The interview 2:10 • How did you get into the medical technology space? 2:29 • Can you explain what machine learning means? 4:37 • How did you end up co-founding Avenda Health? 7:18 • Do you think that this type of technology is replicable in other disease types as well? […] Where else do you see this being a benefit? 9:53 • When you think about AI, what are the other applications for this type of technology outside of oncology? 11:24 • How do you respond to concerns that AI is becoming too sentient or independent? 12:50 • What are the checkpoints we need to put in place to make sure that biases in AI algorithms do not become the norm? 16:21 • Do you have ways to predict who would benefit from these types of technology, and can you categorize patients into who is appropriate for trialing these technologies? 19:44 • Is there a way to utilize this technology to address disparities in health care? 22:04 • Have you found that there are specific things that make it harder to enroll patients in these particular clinical trials? How do you navigate those? 24:47 • If you had a crystal ball that could see fifty years into the future, where do you see all of this technology going? 27:28 • If someone could only listen to the last few minutes of this episode, what would you want them to take away? 30:56 • How to contact Natarajan 31:31 • Thanks for listening 32:22 Shyam Natarajan, PhD, is the co-founder and CEO of Avenda Health, a medtech company focused on improving outcomes for the one in seven men at risk for prostate cancer.

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