PROFESSOR SARA GERKE CO-AUTHORS A NEW ARTICLE IN THE JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS
February 2022 — Professor Sara Gerke co-authors a new article in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics about the safety and reliability concerns of AI-based applications in the health care system, especially for minorities and other disadvantaged groups. Her co-authors include scholars from Baylor College of Medicine, Cornell University, Harvard Law School, and the University of California San Francisco.
This is an interdisciplinary study on ethical, legal, and safety concerns raised by AI-based applications in the health sector. Professor Gerke and her co-authors make suggestions on how to mitigate racial bias in machine learning.
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Professor Sara Gerke is an Assistant Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. Her research focuses on the ethical and legal challenges of artificial intelligence and big data for health care and health law in the United States and Europe. Before joining Penn State Dickinson Law, Professor Gerke served as a Research Fellow in Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Law at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School for the Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (PMAIL).