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Natalie Mayerhofer
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Founder, School of AI in Healthcare / École de l'IA en santé
Deputy Chief Learning Officer, CHUM
Une vraie Montrealer 🍁🥯. Bonjour 💙 Hi!
Opinions are my own.
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Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
erictopol.bsky.social
Echocardiography is one of the most complex medical image sets to analyze, with multiple views + cardiac motion. A new
@nature.com
paper shows how A.I. can do that and provide accurate reports
@davidouyang.bsky.social
nature.com/articles/s41...
November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
datasociety.bsky.social
The money being thrown around for AI is so huge that numbers have lost all meaning. But @shiraovide.bsky.social offers one way to put it in context: The amount Big Tech has spent on AI data centers in just the past year could fund SNAP benefits for four years. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Analysis | The AI spending frenzy is so huge that it makes no sense
Big companies could fund four years’ worth of SNAP benefits from what they’re spending on AI. It may not be a bubble but the numbers in AI are bonkers.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
eiassaih.bsky.social
L'ÉIAS prendra part au Canada Healthcare Innovation Summit 2025 le 19 novembre prochain à Montréal dans le cadre du panel “The Future of Digital Health & Cybersecurity”.

Pour en savoir plus et pour s'inscrire : bamberghealth.com/event/canada...
Canada Healthcare Innovation Summit 2025
Healthcare Systems Optimisation & Sustainability, Digital Transformation & Health 4.0, AI & Big Data in Diagnostics, Therapeutic Innovation & Precision Medicine, and Leadership & Workforce…
bamberghealth.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
eiassaih.bsky.social
Visionnez en rediffusion notre conférence Regards croisés présentée le 16 mai dernier en France dans le cadre de la 1re journée d'IA générative en santé:

➡️Applications et avenir de l'IA générative dans les soins

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlVw...
Conférence regards croisés : Applications et avenir de l’IA Générative dans les soins
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November 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
eiassaih.bsky.social
Vous pouvez désormais (re)visionner notre conférence présentée à MTL connecte le 29 octobre dernier!

➡️Construire la confiance : l’IA responsable en santé, 7 ans après la Déclaration de Montréal

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ek3...
Construire la confiance : l’IA responsable en santé, 7 ans après la Déclaration de Montréal
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November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
helenbranswell.bsky.social
Before her (too early) death, the amazing Sharon Begley wrote this piece on double helix co-discoverer James Watson and the racist and sexist pronouncements he seemed to revel in making in later life. Fascinating read about a troubling individual.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
angierasmussen.bsky.social
I read The Double Helix as an undergraduate. I was a science major at a women’s college taking molecular biology. Our professor taught us that Watson & Crick screwed Rosalind Franklin over.

So I read the book to learn more. I’ll never forget how reading this passage made me feel.
“By choice [Rosalind Franklin] did not emphasize her feminine qualities.. There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black her, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents. So it was quite easy to imagine her the product of an unsatisfied mother who unduly stressed the desirability of professional careers that could save bright girls from marriages to dull men.. Clearly Rosy had to go or be put in her place. The former was obviously preferable because given her belligerent moods, it would be very difficult for Maurice [Wilkins] to maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA.. The thought could not be avoided that the best home for a feminist was another person’s lab”
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
eiassaih.bsky.social
Ne manquez pas les deux activités de l'ÉIAS lors de MTL Connecte le 29 octobre:

➡️ La conférence "Construire la confiance : l'IA responsable en santé";
➡️ Le 2e atelier de la Formation Recherche IA & Santé.

📣Inscrivez-vous avec notre code promo EIAS_int_25! mtlconnecte.ca/billetterie/
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
eiassaih.bsky.social
Nous vous invitons à participer au 2e atelier de la Formation Recherche IA & Santé, organisé par Printemps numérique et Humaniteq, avec l'ÉIAS en tant que partenaire.

📅 Mercredi 29 octobre, de 13h à 16h
📍 CHUM (Montréal)

Inscrivez-vous!
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October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
eiassaih.bsky.social
Nous présenterons la prochaine conférence de notre cycle Regards Croisés France-Québec à MTL Connecte le 29 octobre :

➡️Construire la confiance : l'IA responsable en santé, 7 ans après la Déclaration de Montréal

📣Inscrivez-vous avec notre code promo EIAS_int_25! mtlconnecte.ca/billetterie/
October 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
erictopol.bsky.social
A groundbreaking paper published @nature.com today—the first large health language model—predicts >1,000 diseases for a person and when.
Implications here:
erictopol.substack.com/p/dawn-of-a-...
Dawn of A New Era of Primary Prevention in Medicine
Recent groundbreaking reports highlight our newfound potential to prevent diseases
erictopol.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
datasociety.bsky.social
As the small border town of Sunland Park, NM faces the arrival of a data center, many in the community are wary of big promises about money and jobs and tech futures. They're already struggling to access clean water and essential services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The data center building boom is running into local resistance
These New Mexicans have serious water issues—and concerns about a proposed new $165 billion data complex.
www.motherjones.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
smcgrath.phd
A new NIH policy requiring multiyear grants to be paid in a single lump sum is causing funding odds to plummet. At the NCI, the success rate has dropped from 1 in 10 to 1 in 25, threatening lab closures and the future of research projects.
#AcademicSky
Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite
www.science.org
July 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
smcgrath.phd
A new study tested LLMs for stroke care. ChatGPT-4o was often the most accurate and actionable, but prone to hallucinations. Overall, all models performed suboptimally, frequently failing to meet clinical standards for patient advice.
#MedSky #MLSky
Evaluation of performance of generative large language models for stroke care - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Evaluation of performance of generative large language models for stroke care
www.nature.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
madhupai.bsky.social
OMG

The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under new White House restriction

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding
The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.
www.wsj.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
erictopol.bsky.social
How the electrocardiogram can identify previously undiagnosed structural heart disease with A.I. alone, better than cardiologists with A.I. support
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
madhupai.bsky.social
Autocracies often follow a common playbook, built around the “3 Ps”: populism, polarization, and post-truth

This handbook highlights both historic and contemporary measures aimed at attacking scholars, their institutional environments, and their scholarship

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June 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
eiassaih.bsky.social
L’ÉIAS était invitée à participer aux ateliers de réflexion de la Journée scientifique de la communauté de l’@observatoireia.bsky.social 2025, le 11 juin dernier. Un grand merci pour cette occasion de discuter avec une communauté de recherche engagée!
June 17, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
eiassaih.bsky.social
𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐈𝐀𝐌 𝐝𝐮 𝟐𝟖 𝐦𝐚𝐢

➡️ Importance critique de la compétence: Vigilance IA, consultez le Guide sur le Référentiel de l'ÉIAS
➡️ Les deepfakes en santé
➡️ Découvrez nos apprentissages-clés

(Re)Visionnez notre MIAM sur Youtube du ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqIb...
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
madhupai.bsky.social
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
June 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
erictopol.bsky.social
It's no longer binary: normal or abnormal.
We've known that A.I. can predict future risk of breast cancer from a mammogram
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Today the FDA approved an A.I. to do this for 5-year risk assessment
clairity.com @connielehman.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
smcgrath.phd
GenAI and LLMs bring efficiencies to medical education but also concerns for learning processes, authentic assessment, and academic integrity. A pedagogical approach helps situate these issues and informs governance. #MedSky 🧪🩺 #MLSky
Situating governance and regulatory concerns for generative artificial intelligence and large language models in medical education - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Situating governance and regulatory concerns for generative artificial intelligence and large language models in medical education
www.nature.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
helenbranswell.bsky.social
BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses.
In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
www.statnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
casinoshiftmd.bsky.social
MMR is one of the most effective vaccines at preventing and transmitting #measles. It works fast enough to be used to reduce the severity and transmissibility within 48-72 hours of being infected.
May 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reposted by Natalie Mayerhofer
erictopol.bsky.social
Predicting Alzheimer's in people who are cognitively unimpaired in middle-age via blood tests
p-tau217 did well (best single biomarker), its ratio with Aβ42 had highest performance for detecting PET + amyloid
new publication today
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
May 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM