In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Shakira Grant, MBBS, about providing patients and physicians with the proper education on AI tools, focusing on marginalized communities and more. • Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 0:14 • About Grant 0:26 • The interview 2:07 • How did you get to where you are today? 2:38 • Tell me about how you got into the AI space […] What aspects interest you specifically? 4:19 • Can you take me step-by-step through how CROSS works with different health care organizations? 8:05 • How does CROSS address concerns about AI? 10:33 • Do you think AI could widen our disparities if it's taking its prompts from biases in humans? 13:31 • How do we educate people about fixing the challenges presented by AI so that we can use this data more accurately? 16:38 • Where do you see this going? […] What would you view as success in the next ten years? 18:22 • How are you managing the current political climate with this type of work? 21:31 • What do you plan to do next in your own career? 27:42 • If someone could only listen to the last few minutes of this episode, what would you want listeners to take away? 29:25 • How to contact Grant 30:23 • Thanks for listening 31:28

Shakira J. Grant, MBBS, MSCR, is a physician, entrepreneur, and healthcare executive who works at the intersection of clinical medicine, health policy, and artificial intelligence. She is the founder of CROSS Global Research & Strategy, LLC (CROSS), a company dedicated to providing end-to-end solutions that ease the adoption of AI in healthcare.

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Disclosures: Jain and Grant report no relevant financial disclosures.