Shravani Durbhakula, M.D. looks forward to bridging medicine, public health and business by taking a scientific approach to health policy and innovation. She is a double board-certified interventional pain physician and anesthesiologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She directs the medical school’s pain and opioids curriculum—a novel mandatory course for medical students that has attained international recognition due to its public health significance. She is the creator of PainRounds.org, a digital curriculum on neuromodulation devices that addresses a federally-recognized education gap in pain medicine. She is also the host of Pain Matters, which is the official healthcare innovation podcast for the American Academy of Pain Medicine. Dr. Durbhakula is the current recipient of a mentored NIH-grant and she is completing a Master of Public Health and a Master of Business Administration dual-degree program at Johns Hopkins.
Artificial intelligence in healthcare is only as good as the patient data that is collected. The information must be accurate, and precision management of patient data is critical for AI to succeed.