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  1. Lathan Liou

    1. Lathan Liou is a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, New York, and a researcher in the Department of Genomics and Genetic Sciences.

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  2. Akshay Swaminathan

    1. Akshay Swaminathan is a medical student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and head of data science at Cerebral, a tele-mental-health company in Delaware.

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Although we are both currently medical students, we have spent a combined ten years doing data science in academia and industry, in roles such as head of data science at Cerebral, a tele-mental-health company in Claymont, Delaware, and a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. Our medical-school research involves working with clinicians and data scientists to deploy machine-learning models in health systems (A.S.) and developing epidemiological models to predict the genomic subtypes of coronary artery disease (L.L.).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00312-4

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