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WINTER 2025

Embracing the AI-Driven Transformation of Health Care

Unlocking the Power of AI

AI stories

ArtificIal intelligence

Tech Meets Care

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'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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Skin in the Game

An IU researcher’s AI tool shows promise in predicting whether melanoma will return.

Travis Johnson, with short dark hair and a beard, sits outside on a bright sunny day

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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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?

FEATURED STORIES

Giovanni Rodriguez stands with her arms crossed over a white coat with a stethoscope around her neck. She has long wavy dark hair. A quote next to her portrait reads "My time at IU School of Medicine opened a lot of doors and opportunities for me to explore my interests."

From IU to Harvard

An IU School of Medicine alum thrives in elite company.

A medical student crouches down to talk at eye level with a seated patient at the student outreach clinic in Indianapolis.

Using Their New Skills to Serve Others

IU School of Medicine students volunteer in communities around Indiana.

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

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

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

How to Avoid Probate

Donating a primary residence can lower your tax burden and maximize your impact for IU School of Medicine.

PAST ISSUES

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Summer 2024

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Winter 2024

Lester Thompson receives his diploma and shakes the dean's hand

Spring 2023

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Spring 2022