Pakistani-born surgeon appointed chief AI officer

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani-born surgeon-scientist and academic leader Adil Haider has been appointed the inaugural Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, a US medical school designed from its inception to integrate engineering, medicine and data science, the institution said in a press release this week.

Carle Illinois, jointly operated by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Carle Health, is widely described as the world’s first engineering-based medical school, with a curriculum that embeds computational thinking, systems engineering and innovation into physician training. The appointment reflects a growing push by academic medical institutions to formally embed artificial intelligence into education, research and clinical practice.