MMS Spring Oration: AI in Medicine — What Every Clinician Needs to Know in 2026
Friday, May 15, 2026, 8:45 – 10:00 a.m. ET — Virtual Live Webinar
Adam Rodman, MD, MPH, FACP
Adam Rodman is a general internist and medical educator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of AI Programs at the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Research and Education
at BIDMC, and he leads the steering group for integration of AI into the medical school curriculum. He is also a visiting researcher at Google DeepMind, where he works on oversight systems for patient-facing AI. He also serves as an Associate Editor
at NEJM AI.
Dr. Rodman's research focuses on clinical reasoning, medical education, and the integration of AI into triadic (patient-AI-physician) care models. He co-founded the ARISE research network with Jonathan Chen at Stanford and has served as principal investigator
on multiple randomized controlled trials, including the first pre-registered clinical trial of a patient-facing AI system. He also co-founded the iMED Initiative with Shreya Trivedi to study the impacts of digital technologies on medical learning.
His work is currently supported by the NIH, ARPA-H, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Macy Foundation, and Google Research.
He is the author of Short Cuts: Medicine, a featured instructor in MasterClass, and hosts the American College of Physicians podcast Bedside Rounds. His research and commentary are frequently covered by international news media. Dr. Rodman completed his
residency in internal medicine at Oregon Health and Science University and his global health fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, which included clinical work in Molepolole, Botswana. He lives in Boston with his wife and two young sons.
