Michael D. Howell, MD MPH
Michael is the Chief Clinical Officer at Google, where he leads the team of clinical experts who provide guidance for Google’s health-related products, research, and services. His career has been devoted to improving the quality, safety, and science of how care is delivered and helping people get the best information across their health journey. He previously served as the University of Chicago Medicine's Chief Quality Officer, was associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and at Harvard Medical School, and practiced pulmonary and critical care medicine for many years. Michael has published more than 100 research articles, editorials, and book chapters, and is the author of Understanding Healthcare Delivery Science, one of the foundational textbooks in the field. He has also served as an advisor for the CDC, for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and for the National Academy of Medicine.
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Safety principles for medical summarization using generative AI
Dillon Obika
Christopher Kelly
Nicola Ding
Chris Farrance
Praney Mittal
Donny Cheung
Heather Cole-Lewis
Madeleine Elish
Nature Medicine (2024)
Privacy-first Health Research with Federated Learning
Adam Sadilek
Dung Nguyen
Methun Kamruzzaman
Benjamin Rader
Stefan Mellem
Elaine O. Nsoesie
Jamie MacFarlane
Anil Vullikanti
Madhav Marathe
Paul C. Eastham
John S. Brownstein
npj Digital Medicine (2021)
Customization Scenarios for De-identification of Clinical Notes
Danny Vainstein
Gavin Edward Bee
Jack Po
Jutta Williams
Kat Chou
Ronit Yael Slyper
Rony Amira
Shlomo Hoory
Tzvika Hartman
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2020)
Predicting inpatient medication orders from electronic health record data
Kathryn Rough
Kun Zhang
Atul J. Butte
Alvin Rajkomar
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (2020)
Ensuring Fairness in Machine Learning to Advance Health Equity
Alvin Rishi Rajkomar
Marshall Chin
Mila Hardt
Annals of Internal Medicine (2018)
Scalable and accurate deep learning for electronic health records
Alvin Rishi Rajkomar
Eyal Oren
Nissan Hajaj
Mila Hardt
Peter J. Liu
Xiaobing Liu
Jake Marcus
Patrik Per Sundberg
Kun Zhang
Yi Zhang
Gerardo Flores
Gavin Duggan
Jamie Irvine
Kurt Litsch
Alex Mossin
Justin Jesada Tansuwan
De Wang
Dana Ludwig
Samuel Volchenboum
Kat Chou
Michael Pearson
Srinivasan Madabushi
Nigam Shah
Atul Butte
npj Digital Medicine (2018)
