Danielle S. Bitterman, MD

Dr. Bitterman is a physician-scientist with unique expertise in AI and natural language processing.  Her research is dedicated to incorporating technological advances in AI into intelligent electronic health systems to improve data-driven cancer care.  Dr. Bitterman's laboratory develops natural language processing methods that process vast amounts of data contained within electronic health records to provide insights individualized to each patient and facilitate more effective communication between patients, caregivers, and clinicians.  This work includes automating information extraction from text across multiple clinical and biomedical domains and applying deep learning-based language models to support clinical decision-making and patient education.  Dr. Bitterman's clinical translational efforts also include prospective clinical trials regarding the use of AI technologies in cancer care.  Dr. Bitterman and her team have published multiple high impact articles on these topics in journals such as Nature Medicine, JAMA Oncology, and Lancet Digital Health, and Nature Reviews Clinical 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.