
Through an introduction by our project lecturer, Ms. Li Irene, we welcomed Mr. Ethan Goh from Stanford University to the Matsuo Laboratory on Wednesday, December 10, where he delivered a lecture.
Nearly fifty participants attended the event, in which Mr. Goh spoke on the theme “AI is better than doctors (at some things). Now what?”


Bio:Dr. Ethan Goh
・Executive Director, Stanford ARISE (AI Research and Science Evaluation) Network arise.stanford.edu
・Stanford Clinical Excellence Research Center, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
・BMJ Digital Health & AI (Founding Editorial Board) Associate Editor | https://bmjdigitalhealth.bmj.com/
Dr. Ethan Goh is a physician-scientist and healthcare executive specializing in clinical AI research, product development, and strategy. At Stanford, he leads multi-institutional projects on Large Language Model applications in healthcare, with publications in Nature Medicine and JAMA Network.
He directs the Stanford Healthcare AI Leadership Program and teaches at Harvard Medical School’s executive course on Generative AI. Dr. Goh also serves on the editorial board of BMJ Digital Health & AI and has collaborated with Google, OpenAI, and Roche on AI-driven healthcare solutions.
Previously, he practiced Internal Medicine and worked with the NHS and Ministry of Health. He holds an MD from Imperial College London and a Master’s in Clinical Informatics from Stanford University.
Title: AI is better than doctors (at some things). Now what?
Abstract: Will cover studies coming out of Stanford and Harvard that investigate the science of evaluation of AI outputs for medical use cases, such as medical reasoning and clinical decision support tools.
https://www.arise-ai.org/research
Will also talk about future research directions we are seeing from grants and FDA in the US, and my position as a BMJ AI editor.
Thank you for taking the time to visit the Matsuo Laboratory, Ethan Goh.