Inside The Doctor's Lounge

How Clinical Informatics Training Can Augment Your Career (and impact Climate Change!), with Chethan Sarabu, MD of Cornell Tech

Inside The Doctor's Lounge

Show Notes

In this episode, Dr. Nisha Mehta is joined by Dr. Chethan Sarabu, MD. Dr. Sarabu is a pediatrician who is fellowship trained in Clinical Informatics, as well as director of clinical innovation at Cornell Tech and co-founder of the Climate Health Innovation & Learning Lab (CHILL).

They discuss:

What the field of clinical informatics is, and the critical role clinical informaticians can play bridging the gap between tech and clinical medicine

What a clinical informatics fellowship is (and is not!), and how physicians can pursue this pathway

Rising concerns about AI and the impact on climate change

How increasing access to data on a patient’s environment can be paired with a patient’s medical record to create personalized treatment algorithms and improve health outcomes

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