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When Science Crosses the Line: Lessons from Three Identical Strangers
In the 2025 BEI Winter School lecture, Dr. Ilene Wilets, an Associate Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Chair of its Institutional Review Board, led a discussion on Three Identical [...]
Who Gets In? Algorithms, Bias, and Clinical Trial Access
Clinical trial recruitment is often treated as a logistical hurdle. In reality, it determines who is included in research, who bears risk, and whose experiences shape medical knowledge. In this lecture from the 2025 BEI [...]
Artificial Conscience: Who is Responsible When AI Gets It Wrong?
We tend to assume that disagreement in medicine happens between people. What happens when it’s between a clinician and an algorithm? In this 2025 BEI Winter School lecture, Dr. Bryan Pilkington, an Associate Professor in [...]
