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How AI is Transforming Healthcare

Author Talk with Dr. Robert Wachter, UCSF

Join Dr. Robert Wachter, a leading authority on healthcare AI, for a conversation with Katie Hafner about what AI's rapid transformation means for patients, clinicians, and the future of health care.

Schedule:

• 5:30 PM - Wine & Cheese Reception
• 6:00 PM - Dr. Robert Wachter in Conversation with Journalist Katie Hafner, followed by book signing

Curious about what artificial intelligence means for your health care? Join Dr. Robert Wachter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, in conversation with acclaimed journalist and author Katie Hafner about one of the most important transformations in modern medicine.

Drawing from his new book, A Giant Leap: How AI Is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future, Dr. Wachter will discuss how AI is already changing patient care, medical decision-making, and the doctor-patient relationship, and what these changes may mean for our daily lives.

A nationally recognized expert on healthcare technology and patient safety, Dr. Wachter brings clarity, insight, and real-world perspective to this fascinating and timely topic.

Books will be sold by Sausalito Books by the Bay

Robert M. Wachter, M.D., is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF. Author of 300 articles and 6 books, he coined the term “hospitalist” in 1996 and is often considered the “father” of the hospitalist field, the fastest-growing medical specialty in U.S. history. He is a past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine, past chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a Master of the American College of Physicians, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Modern Healthcare magazine has ranked him among the 50 most influential physician-executives in the United States more than a dozen times; he was number one on the list in 2015. His 2015 book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, was a New York Times bestseller. His new book, A Giant Leap: How AI is Transforming Healthcare and What That Means for Our Future, was an instant Amazon and USA Today national bestseller.

Katie Hafner is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Wired, Esquire, and other major publications. She is also the co-creator and host of the acclaimed podcast Lost Women of Science.

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