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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)

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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

    Health Informatics; Modeling; Qualitative Methods; Bioinformatics; Epidemiology Methods

    Research at a Glance

    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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      American Gastroenterological Association

      Professional OrganizationsCommittee Member
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      Gastroenterology

      Journal ServiceAssociate Editor
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      Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

      Journal ServiceEditorial Board Member
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      Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Journal

      Journal ServiceAssociate Editor
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      American Gastroenterological Association

      Professional OrganizationsAdvisor
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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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