Leadership

Dennis attended Rice University, received his MD from Baylor College of Medicine, and then completed residency in Internal Medicine followed by his clinical and research fellowship in Gastroenterology at Yale. He then received a master’s degree in clinical informatics from Yale School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in Investigative Medicine from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with a focus on unsupervised machine learning and deep learning. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director of Digital Health, and Director of Applied AI at Yale School of Medicine with a secondary appointment in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science. His editorial experience includes service with Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Journal, and GastroHep Advances. He is a physician data scientist working in the intersection of translational informatics, algorithmic development, and implementation science with a special focus on the management of acute gastrointestinal bleeding. He founded and directs the Human+Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (HAIM) lab at Yale with the vision of enhancing human presence using AI and mission of using large language models to improve trust and promote value in human-AI teams.