Hooman Henry Rashidi is Pitt’s new associate dean for AI in medicine

Hooman Henry Rashidi will join the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine effective Jan. 1 in the newly created role of associate dean for artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine.

In this capacity, Rashidi will both teach and develop curricula for MD and graduate students on the fundamentals of AI to better prepare them to understand, evaluate, use and develop technologies that will advance their research and improve patient care. He will also serve as professor of pathology, executive vice chair for computational pathology, and founding executive director of the Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence (CPACE), a collaborative effort of Pitt and UPMC. CPACE will support pathology and laboratory medicine and also be available to complementary disciplines. 

Rashidi combines his passion for education and patient care with his unique training in bioinformatics and machine learning to create innovative tools and resources that improve clinical practice, research and education. He joins Pitt from Cleveland Clinic, where he serves as founding director of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute’s Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science and vice chair of technology innovation and computational pathology.

Prior to these roles, Rashidi was director of artificial intelligence and professor and vice chair of informatics and computational pathology for UC Davis Medical Center, where he led AI studies that have led to numerous products and filed patents, including the proprietary software Machine Intelligence Learning Optimizer (MILO), whose suite of applications has been licensed to several industry and academic institutions for clinical, quality improvement and educational projects.

A widely known AI expert and educator, Rashidi has earned numerous teaching awards and has created several popular hematology apps. He is also co-founder and senior editor of the online hematology atlas HematologyOutlines.