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Alfred E. Mann Charities has made a $10 million gift to the Stanford School of Medicine to support its Hub for Artificial Intelligence in Pediatric Medicine.
The gift will help Stanford recruit a leader for the hub, who is expected to join Stanford Medicine in the coming academic year, according to the announcement. It will also support the hub’s growth and establish an endowed professorship in AI in pediatric medicine.
Mary B. Leonard, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine and physician-in-chief at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, said the gift will help Stanford “bridge the gap between cutting-edge data science and real-world care for mothers and children.”
The hub is intended to bring together AI research across Stanford and support the use of AI tools at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Stanford Medicine said it has been using AI to make pediatric MRIs faster and safer, predict complications of premature birth, personalize cancer treatment and help manage type 1 diabetes.
Alfred E. Mann Charities honors Alfred E. Mann, an inventor and philanthropist who focused on using technology to improve health outcomes.
“Investing in AI for pediatric medicine — where the need is urgent and the potential is enormous — reflects exactly the kind of impact Alfred would have championed,” said Anoosheh Bostani, executive vice president of Alfred E. Mann Charities.
