Dr. Danielle Bitterman is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, whose research is dedicated to developing and implementing AI advances for safe, equitable cancer care. She is a physician-scientist in the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Program at Mass General Brigham, and a radiation oncologist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Dr. Bitterman’s lab uses natural language processing to transform the medical records into systems that actively data-driven care of patients with cancer. Her interests include language model medical knowledge evaluation and risk assessments, automated information extraction from the electronic health records, and translational studies of AI in the clinic. Dr. Bitterman’s research has been published in high-impact journals and conference proceedings, including Nature Medicine, Lancet Digital Health, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, NeurIPS, and EMNLP. Her research is funded by the National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

Dr. Bitterman received her undergraduate degree at Columbia University, and attended medical school at New York University School of Medicine. She completed an internship in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and her residency at the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in natural language processing at the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital.