Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (CAIM)

Interviews

Behind the scenes in-depth interviews with CAIM members.

When sparks and grit bring AI to the patient

(Photo: Tanja Kurt © University of Bern)

Raphael Sznitman, Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (CAIM), is a leading expert at the interface between medicine, artificial intelligence (AI), and engineering. On the eve of the CAIM Opening, he talks about his motivation to research AI.

Exploring ethical possibilities in a new space

Rouven Porz is the medical ethics expert at the CAIM Embedded Ethics Lab. He is excited for researchers and society to confront the fear of artificial intelligence and speaks up for the inclusion of ethics in the discussion about challenges and opportunities.

We must not displace patients from the center

Claudio Bassetti, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bern, talks in an interview about the opportunities and challenges of digitalized medicine - and what lessons can be learned from the Corona pandemic for the medicine of the future.

Neurons have the ability to look into the future

Mihai A. Petrovici is investigating the brain's remarkably efficient learning mechanisms at the Department of Physiology. In this interview, he talks about the fascination and progress of modern brain research, but also about the consequences of Switzerland's withdrawal from European research programs.

Preventing millions of people from going blind

Serife Seda Kucur is convinced that AI technology can solve the acute and growing need for glaucoma care worldwide. In this interview, she talks about how to make glaucoma monitoring easier and more accessible. She also tells us her journey into entrepreneuship and the mission of the startup she co-founded.

A leap forward in epilepsy research

The epileptologist Dr. Maxime Baud plans to forecast higher risk days for epilptic seizures via long-term EEG data. For his research «Dynamical control of seizures» he has received an Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). His project will record seizure patterns in epilepsy patients in the hope that "for these persons, it would be a leap forward."

Technology? - Absolutely!

Tanja Birrenbach is an emergency physician, a training coordinator, and a researcher. She knows: In emergency medicine, all members of the treatment team are crucial to the health and survival of patients. Training routines are therefore vital to ensure that the decisive moves are made correctly – and virtual reality is a great tool for this. In an interview Tanja Birrenbach explains how she plans and researches VR trainings for emergency teams.