Dennis Shung, MD, MHS, PhD

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.