There are no pediatric specialists in 60 percent of the rural counties in the United States. Diseases such as Cortical Dysplasia cause epileptic seizures, multiple times a day. The good news is that only 25,000 children are affected a year, but the bad news is that no one specialist sees enough cases to diagnose from an MRI scan. Building more medical schools and incentivizing pediatric cardiologists to live in Montana are not the solution to this problem. Instead, imagine privacy-preserving real-time AI applications deployed to the point of care in rural California or Rwanda. 

This program will focus on the Pediatric Moonshot, whose mission is to reduce health-care inequity, lower costs and improve health outcomes for children rurally, locally and globally—by creating privacy-preserving real-time AI applications based on access to data in all 1 million health-care machines in all 500 children’s hospitals in the world. We’ll talk about the progress to date making the mission a reality and the challenges and opportunities going forward.

About the Speaker

Dr Timothy Chou retired from Oracle Corporation as the first president of the cloud computing business. He returned to Stanford University in 2005 and started the first class on cloud computing, and since then he has featured guest lectures from more than 100 public company CEOs. Chou came out of retirement in 2020 to pursue the Pediatric Moonshot, aligning his actions to the mantra he shares with his students in his closing lectures: “To those much is given, much is expected.”