IU Medicine

WINTER 2025

This edition of IU MEDICINE looks at the ways IU School of Medicine faculty are using artificial intelligence to help speed research, detect diseases sooner, predict cancer risk and manage ever-growing workloads.

And we’re just getting started.

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RECENT FEATURES

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Winter 2025

Unlocking the Power of AI

IU School of Medicine embraces a powerful new tool to speed research and treat patients.

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Winter 2025

How Radiology is Becoming a Leader in Adopting AI

Few clinical areas have adopted AI tools faster than radiology, easing workloads and helping overcome a shortage of clinicians.

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Winter 2025

AI is Coming to an Exam Room Near You

Ambient listening interprets conversations in real-time to update electronic health records — and help physicians reconnect with their patients.

a pathologist in a lab coat stands at a computer monitor reviewing data using AI to analyze blood smears.
Winter 2025

'We're on the Precipice'

AI powers tools that help pathologists spend less time counting cells and use their refined skills to make complicated diagnoses.

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Winter 2025

Reducing Bias in AI

In a technology hungry for data, how do we ensure it consumes good information and builds models that benefit every patient?

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Winter 2025

Finding a Signal in Noise

Machine learning enables cancer researchers to sift reams of genetic data and identify a protein potentially powering multiple myeloma.

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Winter 2025

Using Their New Skills to Serve Others

IU School of Medicine students volunteer in communities around Indiana.

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Summer 2024

An educator's next lesson

For 10 years, medicine remained on the backburner as Myke Spencer became a teacher, then a school administrator, then a principal.

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Summer 2024

Creating critical continuity for sickle cell patients

IU School of Medicine’s faculty strive to find ways to lower barriers for Hoosiers to access care and pursue research to advance treatments.

VOICES AND INSIGHTS

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Winter 2025

Embracing AI

How IU School of Medicine can improve health with this powerful tool.

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Winter 2025

A Young Life, Briefly Derailed, is Set Back On Course

A combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy helped Reagan Lessick overcome a rare form of blood cancer.

Kola Okuyemi stands in front of the Department of Family Medicine sign
Summer 2024

Family Medicine chair aims to bridge the gaps in health care

Dr. Kola Okuyemi’s career as an academic family medicine physician has focused on research and training programs to improve the health of underserved populations and advance health equity.

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Winter 2024

Leading the Way

A landmark IU School of Medicine study of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease enters its fifth year — and has more insights to share.