Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Radiology, and Data Science and Director of AI Research, NYU Langone Health
LinkedInEric Karl Oermann (EKO) (@ekoermann) is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Radiology, and Data Science at NYU and the Director of the Health AI Research Lab of the NYU Langone Health System. He studied mathematics at Georgetown University with a focus on group theory. Dr. Oermann spent six months with the President’s Council on Bioethics studying human dignity under the mentorship of renowned physician-philosopher Edmund Pellegrino prior to leaving graduate studies in mathematics at UNC to pursue medicine. Dr. Oermann has won numerous awards for his scholarship including fellowships from the American Brain Tumor Association and Doris Duke Charitable Research Foundation. Dr. Oermann was selected as one of Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 for his work on using machine learning to develop prognostic models for cancer patients. He was recruited as an early researcher at Verily (Google Life Sciences), and spent time at Google-X on Project Amber (the Moonshot for Mental Health). He has published over one-hundred manuscripts spanning basic research on machine learning, neurosurgery, and the philosophy of medicine, and has founded or co-founded multiple startups (Cadyne, Artisight, Delvi, MarchAI) in the medical AI space and consumer electronics. He is a practicing neurosurgeon and computer scientist, and is dedicated to studying human and artificial intelligence to improve human health and AI technologies themselves using insights from human neuroscience.