Alan Karthikesalingam
Alan is a clinician and Research Scientist working on Foundation Models for health, most recently including Med-PaLM, Med-PaLM-2, Med-PaLM-Multimodal and AMIE. Prior to this his work at DeepMind and Google explored applications of AI in radiology, ophthalmology, dermatology and electronic health records, resulting in papers published in Nature and Nature Medicine. He is an honorary Lecturer in Vascular Surgery at Imperial College in London. He completed his MA in Neuroscience and Medical Degree (MBBChir) at the University of Cambridge before specialist training in surgery in the London Deanery, where he completed his Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS), PhD in Vascular Surgery and was appointed as a NIHR Clinical Lecturer. In 2017 he joined DeepMind’s health research team and in 2019 joined Google Health. Prior to joining Google he had published over 150 peer-reviewed articles including first-author studies in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.
