Empirical Priors
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Karl Swanson

Clinical AI Scientist

Writing at medicine ∩ machine learning.

Betting on P(better medicine | better AI).

Education
DO, Rowan University School of Osteopathic MedicineMS Biology (Computational), Rutgers / CCIB
Training
Internal Medicine, Lankenau Medical CenterClinical Informatics Fellowship, UCSF
Experience
Currently: SukiPreviously: Ambience Healthcare
Interests
Mind: Philosophy, Logic, MathBody: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Muay ThaiArt: Guitar, Punk, Hip Hop
Karl Swanson
Research

Research

Projects spanning NLP in clinical notes, predictive modeling in the ICU, and AI tooling for physicians.

Writing

Latest Posts

Long-form thinking on medicine, AI, epistemics, and what it means to practice in an era of intelligent machines.

Lab

Experiments & Tools

Small apps, data visualizations, and demos. Things built for curiosity.

About

The Longer Story

From computational biology to the wards to clinical informatics, and why I ended up building AI for medicine.

Errata

Borrowed shamelessly from Slate Star Codex, which keeps a public log of corrections. Medical training raises you on critique. You give it freely, so you should be willing to receive it the same way. When something on this site turns out to be wrong, it gets logged here with a link to the correction.

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