On the human work of medicine in the AI era.
I am building the governance, talent pipelines, and operating systems that let academic medicine translate AI into durable patient and population benefit. I am writing here about what that work asks of us.
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Three voices, one harmony
The Nonalgorithmic essays, the Standing Orders, and the interior work of Kidney Love. Each opens what the other cannot.
Most recent from each voice
The Essays
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When the Machine Builds Cities of Sand
What the Anthropic reports know about being human, and the AI pause debate does not. A model that read the situation correctly only when…
The Standing Order
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Can AI amplify the human life we want to protect?
Becca Rothfeld reported from the Pro-Human Assembly for The New Yorker. The people she met kept asking what a human life is for. Can…
Kidney Love
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Intermezzo: The cradle songs of my sufferings
A pause between movements: the long Florida afternoons in the pages of Outlander, a circle of love and belonging, the farewells the body remembers,…
The Essays
D Phrygian
The nearest measurable proxy is never the thing itself.
One essay every Friday at 7 AM, delivered by email. On academic medicine, the identity of the human, and what the practice of medicine must not let go of.
The Standing Order
D major
An instruction, once written, holds until someone changes it.
Policy, implementation, safety and education in clinical AI. One object at a time: a rule, a bill, a regulation, a trial, a number. Published here Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and published here first.
Kidney Love
D mol
On vulnerability, aging, and the bright home in which I live.
The interior of the work. Language, music, memory, mortality, and what the newsletter cannot say.
Speaking
Keynotes, panels, and institutional convenings
On the AI-native academic medical center, medical education in the AI era, and the governance that has to hold underneath both.
About
Physician, scientist, institution builder
Why this site exists, what I am building at the University of Florida, and what the practice of medicine must not let go of.
Selected work
Reconceiving the architecture around AI
Two recent papers on how the governance of biomedical AI should be reconceived: Co-creating Consent for Data Use in NEJM AI, with legal scholar Barbara J. Evans, and Reconceiving Safety Regulation for AI and ML Medical Software in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, with Evans and Eric S. Rosenthal.
Translating clinical intelligence into music
Whether clinical intelligence can travel in a form other than a paper. Human Systems: Translating Clinical Intelligence into Music is seven compositions with José Valentino Ruiz of the UF College of the Arts, among them Human Before the Chart and Threshold at the Door. I am executive producer and co-principal investigator.
2026 Communicator Award of Excellence, Emerging Tech: AI Utility Integration.
Essays each Friday
On academic medicine, the identity of the human, and what the practice of medicine must not let go of.
The Weekly Edition each Monday
On LinkedIn: what moved in AI and medicine this week, in policy, research and public argument. Read the editions