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Glass Box Medicine offers premium health AI consulting services with the expertise of Dr. Rachel Draelos.
To request a consultation, send Dr. Draelos a message here.
Dr. Draelos is a physician scientist and was the first person to earn an MD and a PhD in Computer Science from Duke University. She has completed over 100 AI/ML consulting engagements and is an expert in creating custom AI and machine learning solutions for healthcare.
- After a 30-minute to 1 hour initial meeting, she will craft a clearly written summary outlining a unique AI strategy for your project.
- For short-term engagements, she advises individuals and teams, designs datasets, and recommends modeling approaches.
- For long-term engagements, she implements HIPAA-compliant AI solutions end-to-end, including data collection, data preprocessing, novel model design, model training and evaluation in Python, and iteration to achieve excellent performance. Solutions are customized to specific specialties and workflows and can be integrated into the EHR.
- Dr. Draelos is a sought-after speaker and podcast guest who can lead workshops and deliver tailored lectures to enhance your organization’s AI knowledge.
- With her entrepreneurial experience as the CEO and Founder of Cydoc, she also understands the business side of new AI development and advises health tech startups.
Topic Areas
Artificial Intelligence: Dr. Draelos earned her PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence) from Duke University with a 4.0 GPA. She focuses on safety, transparency, and explainability of AI systems, and her publications have been cited over 700 times (Google Scholar).
Healthcare: Dr. Draelos earned her MD from Duke University. Her prior work has spanned a wide range of clinical areas, including radiology, dermatology, surgery, cardiology, medical genetics, mental health, dentistry, medical billing, and more. She can develop custom models leveraging any kind of biomedical data, including medical images, medical notes, electronic health records, diagnosis and procedure codes, laboratory test results, omics data, and multimodal data from diverse sources.
Startup Advising: Dr. Draelos has seven years of entrepreneurial experience as the CEO/Founder of Cydoc, a health tech startup offering an AI-powered clinical documentation platform that saves clinicians 2+ hours per day. The AI Triage Assistant automatically interviews patients using medical reasoning, then generates a medical note, while the AI Scribe listens to visits, transcribes, and generates notes. Dr. Draelos advises startups on technical aspects of AI as well as go-to-market strategy and clinical utility of proposed solutions.
Natural Language Processing (NLP): Dr. Draelos has a deep understanding of large language models (LLMs) like Claude and ChatGPT, including the nuances of the Transformer neural network architecture that powers LLMs. She has leveraged LLMs and other NLP techniques for numerous applications including medical note generation and structured concept extraction from clinical notes. She can customize the behavior of LLMs for your use case through prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation, or fine tuning.
Computer Vision: Dr. Draelos is expert in modern computer vision techniques. She developed the first machine learning model to predict multiple abnormalities simultaneously from a CT scan. She has developed models for 2D medical images, 3D medical images, clinical color photographs, and video data.
Explainable AI: Dr. Draelos is passionate about explainable AI and interpretable machine learning. She invented the HiResCAM technique, an explanation method for convolutional neural networks with mathematical guarantees.
Example Project Types
- Develop an AI strategy for your organization.
- Develop custom AI/machine learning solutions, including custom neural networks implemented in Python, and solutions that leverage foundation models.
- Develop natural language processing and LLM solutions for text generation, classification, PDF data extraction and analytics, healthcare fax handling, and business workflows.
- Develop computer vision solutions for image classification, object detection, and segmentation in 2D images, 3D images, or video, including medical images (x-ray/radiograph, CT, MRI, nuclear medicine, ultrasound).
- Design and execute original health AI/ML research projects.
Wondering if Dr. Draelos can help you with your project? Send her a message here.
Testimonials
“Working with Dr. Rachel has been an absolute game-changer. Her deep knowledge of AI, coupled with her medical expertise, provided invaluable insights that will truly elevate our project. Rachel has a unique ability to break down complex concepts into actionable strategies, and her thoughtful suggestions have been pivotal in shaping our next steps. She’s more than just a consultant; she’s a strategic partner who genuinely cares about the success of the team. I couldn’t recommend her more highly!”
“Rachel brought a depth of knowledge that enriched our understanding and guided our decision-making process. Her ability to synthesize complex information into actionable insights was particularly impressive. Her commitment to quality and detail ensured that the report was not only comprehensive but also accessible to all stakeholders. Her professionalism and punctuality in meeting deadlines made the collaboration smooth and productive. Rachel’s contributions were instrumental in shaping a robust and forward-thinking AI strategy for our organization.”
“Rachel is a superstar. She provided extremely high-quality feedback and recommendations to me on a software project I am working on. She is extremely knowledgeable and stays on top of the latest developments. She is also responsive and communicates extremely clearly in person and in writing. I highly recommend her for any AI work, especially in the healthcare field, but not necessarily limited to that.”
“Rachel did an incredible job providing feedback on an invention involving the use of large language models and doing related research. She brought her own expertise to the table in addition to the thorough research that she performed and presented clearly. I highly recommend her for AI-related projects.”
“Rachel has a unique skillset that I highly recommend for anyone building medical imaging AI. She was keen to share her experience and difficult to acquire knowledge—one only begotten through hours of difficult experimentation.”
“Rachel was highly intelligent and was able to provide excellent guidance on our AI project. I look forward to working with her in the future.”
“I scheduled a consultation with Dr. Draelos to discuss a healthcare related AI / ML project I am considering. Dr. Draelos was extremely knowledgeable and helpful. She helped me brainstorm on possible solutions along with providing recommendations on the options available to me. I couldn’t have found a better match for my specific project!”
“Rachel was a massive help to us. Very detail oriented, organized and a pleasure to work with.”
“Rachel was a delight to work with and was highly invested in helping us gauge our progress and determine some next best steps forward. She was able to answer all of our questions, provide valuable resource insights, and is clearly an expert in the field. I look forward to working with her again as our project evolves.”
“Rachel did an incredible job reviewing a paper involving the use of AI to improve picking of objects by a robotic arm. Her review helped me to understand the paper better, and both saved me time and enabled me to provide a higher-quality work product to my client. She was prompt and professional, and her summary was clear and easy to understand. I highly recommend her for any work relating to AI/ML.”
“Rachel did an outstanding job interpreting a presentation involving machine learning in the healthcare industry. She has expert knowledge of the topic and helped me to understand a complex presentation, which saved me time and helped me to increase the quality of the work product that I provided to my client. I have already hired her again and recommend her highly.”
“Rachel did an incredible job and far exceeded my expectations. As a result, I expanded the scope of the project to provide her with additional related work. She excelled at everything and I have already hired her for additional projects. I can recommend her without reservations for work involving AI/ML, especially in relation to healthcare.”
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