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Dennis Shung, MD, MHS, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)
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Director of Digital Health, Digestive Diseases

Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation

Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Clinical and Translational Research Accelerator (CTRA)

Contact Info

dennis.shung@yale.edu

Yale School of Medicine

Department of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), PO Box 208019

New Haven, CT 06520-8019

United States

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Assistant Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases)

Director of Digital Health, Digestive Diseases; Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation; Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Clinical and Translational Research Accelerator (CTRA)

Biography

Dennis L. Shung MD MHS PhD is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Digital Health in the Section of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine with a secondary appointment in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science. He is also Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence at the Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation and the Yale Clinical and Translational Research Accelerator. He serves as an Associate Editor for Gastroenterology, a member of the American Gastroenterological Association AI Task Force, founding member of the Artificial Intelligence Institute for Gastroenterology by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and a committee member of American Gastroenterological Association Center for GI Innovation & Technology (CGIT). On a national AI policy level, he serves as a member of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) Generative AI Testing and Evaluation Working Group.

He is a physician data scientist working in the intersection of translational informatics, algorithmic development, and implementation science whose interdisciplinary work has been featured at Digestive Diseases Week, Neural Information Processing Systems, and Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems with publications in Gastroenterology, Nature, and JAMA Network journals.

He is founder and director of the Human+Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (H+AIM) lab at Yale with the vision of enhancing human presence using AI and mission of using large language models to improve trust and promote value in human-AI teams.

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Education & Training

PhD
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Investigative Medicine (2022)
Fellow
Yale School of Medicine (2020)
MHS
Yale School of Medicine, Clinical Informatics (2020)
Resident Physician
Yale-New Haven Hospital (2017)
MD
Baylor College of Medicine (2014)
BS
Rice University, Biochemistry & Cell Biology (2010)
BA
Rice University, Hispanic Studies (2010)

Research

Overview

Dennis L. Shung, MD, MHS, PhD is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Digital Health in the section of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine at Yale. He is a physician data scientist and gastroenterologist working in the intersection of translational informatics, algorithmic development, and implementation science with a special focus on the management of acute gastrointestinal bleeding. He did his undergraduate studies at Rice University, received his MD from Baylor College of Medicine, MHS in Clinical Informatics from Yale, and PhD from Yale. He founded the Human+Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (HAIM) lab at Yale, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Gastroenterological Association, and the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation. He was awarded a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health, the 2022 AGA–Medtronic Pilot Research Award in Artificial Intelligence; the Research Scholar Award from the American Gastroenterological Association; the Iva Dostanic, MD, PhD, Physician-Scientist Trainee Award; and the Samuel Kushlan Award for Excellence in Research.

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Medical Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence; Data Science; Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage; Health Services Accessibility; Machine Learning; Medical Informatics

Public Health Interests

Bioinformatics; Epidemiology Methods; Modeling; Qualitative Methods; Health Informatics
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Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Dennis Shung's published research.

Publications

2024

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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

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    Coalition for Healthcare Artificial Intelligence (CHAI)

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    Yale New Haven Health System

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Teaching & Mentoring

Mentoring

  • Niroop Rajashekar

    Medical student
    2023 - 2024

  • Mauro Giuffrè, MD

    Postdoc
    2023 - Present

  • Saeed Soleymanjahi

    Internal medical resident
    2023 - 2024

  • Neil S. Zheng

    Medical student
    2022 - 2024

Clinical Care

Overview

Dennis Shung MD, MHS, PhD, is a general gastroenterologist with a particular interest in managing patients with gastrointestinal bleeding.

Gastrointestinal diseases are usually multifactorial, Dr. Shung says, so it is rewarding to work with the patient to get a holistic view into the best way to improve their gastrointestinal health.

“I enjoy listening to patients tell their stories and helping them understand, cope with, and get the right treatment for their gastrointestinal issues,” Dr. Shung says.

In addition to caring for patients, Dr. Shung is director of digital health in digestive diseases for Yale School of Medicine (his MHS is in clinical informatics and his PhD is in investigative medicine), and an assistant professor studying the intersection of clinical big data, informatics, and machine learning, with a focus on helping low-risk patients who are not hospitalized with gastrointestinal bleeding. “I work to empower doctors with tools to give the right care to the right person at the right time,” he says.

Clinical Specialties

Internal Medicine; Gastroenterology

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Board Certifications

  • Gastroenterology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2023

  • Clinical Informatics

    Certification Organization
    AB of Preventive Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2022

  • Internal Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2017

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Yale School of Medicine

Department of Medicine (Digestive Diseases), PO Box 208019

New Haven, CT 06520-8019

United States

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