Team

Daniel A. Hashimoto, MD MTR

Dr. Hashimoto is assistant professor of surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) and director of PCASO. He is a foregut and endoscopic surgeon and translational surgical data scientist. He is co-founder and vice chair of the board for the Global Surgical AI Collaborative. His primary research interests are in applications of computer vision to intraoperative surgical decision making and the development of automated feedback mechanisms for surgical trainees. He is an ardent believer in multidisciplinary education and enjoys working closely with both surgical trainees and engineering/CS students.

Eric Eaton, PhD

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Professor Eaton is research associate professor of computer and information sciences at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he leads the Lifelong Machine Learning group within the GRASP Lab. His primary research interests are in lifelong learning, knowledge transfer between learning tasks, and interactive AI.

Maria Altieri, MD FACS

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Dr. Altieri is clinical assistant professor of surgery and section chief of gastrointestinal surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital. She is an expert in surgical outcomes research and has published over 100 manuscripts. Her research interests are in improving quality of care for surgical patients and understanding how large databases contribute to our understanding of surgical care processes.

Samuele Canas, MD MS

Dr. Canas is a bioengineer turned surgeon from Pisa, Italy, who is currently a surgical research fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is building a database of robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy video for the development of automated assessment of robotic surgery for complex GI operations.

Christina Boutros, MD

Dr. Boutros is a surgical resident at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. She is interested in applications of surgical data science to general surgical and thoracic oncology.

Louisa Chen, MD MBA

Dr. Chen is a surgical resident at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. An MD/MBA graduate of Dartmouth, she is interested in the behavioral economics of surgeon interactions with technologies such as artificial intelligence.

Vivek Singh, BA

Vivek Singh is a third-year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine. Previously a health sciences journalist, Vivek is investigating patient perceptions of AI as applied to interventional healthcare, such as surgery, interventional radiology, gastroenterology, and other fields.

Sruthi Kurada

Sruthi Kurada is an undergraduate student in Penn’s Jerome Fischer Program in Management and Technology. Majoring in computer science and quantitative finance, Sruthi has experience in computational genomics for cancer risk prediction and natural language processing for analyzing voice data to identify patients with Parkinson Disease.

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