While a lot of the news around AI is doom and gloom, the potential for positive innovation in health care offers a hopeful perspective. Hosts Beth Coleman and Rahul Krishnan are joined by University of Toronto experts Christine Allen and Andrew Pinto to talk about the transformative power of AI in health care, from revolutionizing primary care to advancing drug development.
 
About the hosts:

Beth Coleman is an associate professor at U of T Mississauga’s Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/) and the Faculty of Information. She is also a research lead on AI policy and praxis at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/). Coleman authored Reality Was Whatever Happened: Octavia Butler AI and Other Possible Worlds (https://k-verlag.org/books/beth-coleman-reality-was-whatever-happened/) using art and generative AI. 

Rahul Krishnan is an assistant professor in U of T’s department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science (https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/) and department of laboratory medicine and pathobiology in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine (https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/). He is a Canada CIFAR Chair at the Vector Institute, a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and a faculty member at the Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM https://tcairem.utoronto.ca/).
 
Guests

Andrew Pinto is the founder and director of the Upstream Lab (https://upstreamlab.org/), a research team focused on addressing social determinants of health, population health management, and utilizing data science for proactive care. Pinto is a family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, and associate professor in the department of family and community medicine in U of T’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine and at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
 
Christine Allen is a professor in U of T’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. She is a member of the scientific leadership team of the Acceleration Consortium (https://acceleration.utoronto.ca/) at U of T. Allen is a co-founder and CEO of Intrepid Labs Inc. (https://intrepidlabs.tech/), a company that is accelerating pharmaceutical drug development through integration of AI, automation and advanced computing.

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Welcome to this new podcast series featuring the research of UCL's staff and students on fascinating topics relating to the ancient world.

In this episode Mateen speaks about the relationships between Greece and Persia during the Persian Wars, particularly focusing on the role played by religion.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/ancient-world-new-voices 

Transcription link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/sites/classics/files/episode_1_ucl_podcast_otter.ai_1.docx

Date of episode recording: 2021-03-11T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:20:13
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Giovanna Di Martino
Guests: Mateen Arghandehpour
Producer: Giovanna Di Martino

Season 1: Culture and Politics of the Achaemenid Empire

In this episode Sofia takes us on a journey through the world of Seneca's tragedies. 

Transcription link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/sites/classics/files/episode_2_ucl_podcast.docx

Date of episode recording: 2021-04-28T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:23:42
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Mateen Arghandehpour
Guests: Sofia Bongiovanni
Producer: Sofia Bongiovanni

Season 1: Violence in Seneca the Younger

In this episode, Melissa explores the reception of Homer and Virgil, and the concept of 'family' in their epics, in 20th-century Germany and France.

Transcription link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/sites/classics/files/family_in_broch_and_giraudouxs_receptions_of_the_homeric_and_virgilian_epics_transcript.docx

Date of episode recording: 2021-06-28T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:20:43
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Sofia Bongiovanni
Guests: Melissa Pires da Silva
Producer: Sofia Bongiovanni

Season 1: 'Family' in Broch and Giraudoux's receptions of the Homeric and Virgilian epics

In this episode, Marta speaks about the political dimensions and implications, past and present, of Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things.

Transcription link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/sites/classics/files/marta_podcast_transcription_revised.docx

Date of episode recording: 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:20:06
Language of episode: 00:20:06
Presenter:Giovanna Di Martino
Guests: Marta Martín Díaz
Producer: Sofia Bongiovanni

Season 1: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura

(Mis)understanding heroes: from Achilles to Superman In this episode, we embark on an exciting journey as Antony bills Achilles alongside Superman.

Transcript link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/sites/classics/files/makrinospodcasttranscript.docx

Date of episode recording: 2021-11-25T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:30:11
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Mateen Arghandehpour
Guests: Dr. Antony Makrinos
Producer: Sofia Bongiovanni

Season 1: (Mis)understanding heroes: from Achilles to Superman

Season Two begins with a discussion with Prof. Phiroze Vasunia who talks about his new inter-institution research project ‘Comparative Classics, Greece, Rome, and India’. You can see more about Prof. Vasunia at the Departmental People page and more on the project is situated on the Departmental Research pages. 

Transcript link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/sites/classics/files/phiroze_podcast_transcript.docx

Date of episode recording: 2022-01-13T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:30:14
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Mélissa Pires Da Silva
Guests: Prof. Phiroze Vasunia
Producer: Giovanna Di Martino

Season 2: Comparative Classics: Greece, Rome, and India

In the Second Episode of Season Two Professor Mark Weeden talks about his current research across the Cuneiform World from hieroglyphic inscriptions discovered in Turkey to cuneiform tablets found in Iraq. You can see more about Prof. Weeden at the Departmental People page.

Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/sites/classics/files/markweedentranscript.docx

Date of episode recording: 2022-03-13T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:27:20
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Sofia Bongiovanni
Guests: Dr. Mark Weeden
Producer: Mélissa Pires Da Silva

Season 2: The History and Literature of the Cuneiform World

Maddalena Italia & Mélissa Pires Da Silva: On Sanskrit Erotic Poetry 

Date of episode recording: 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:29:32
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Melissa Pires Da Silva
Guests: Maddalena Italia
Producer: Melissa Pires Da Silv

Season 2: Maddalena Italia & Mélissa Pires Da Silva: On Sanskrit Erotic Poetry

Maddalena Italia & Mélissa Pires Da Silva: On Sanskrit Erotic Poetry 

Date of episode recording: 2023-11-23T00:00:00Z
Duration: 00:29:32
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Melissa Pires Da Silva
Guests: Maddalena Italia
Producer: Melissa Pires Da Silva

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