Overview
Dr Stephen Blackwelder leads Duke Health’s efforts to create new partnerships with digital health software and artificial intelligence-focused organizations outside the Duke enterprise. Stephen reports in to the Chief Digital Officer for Duke Health, and closely partners with the Office of External Partnerships team to build broader and deeper engagement between Duke faculty and the digital health industry, entrepreneurs, and other innovators. These partnerships provide mutual economic value to Duke Health and the partner, nurture the exchange of creative thinking between Duke and the community, all toward improving the quality and efficacy of patient care nationally.
Dr Blackwelder also serves on the faculty of Duke University Fuqua School of Business as Adjunct Professor, where he teaches about the challenges inherent in analyzing clinical data, especially for use in AI-powered decision support, and draws on decades of experience to equip graduate students to overcome those challenges in the real world. Stephen’s research is focused on trustworthiness of AI in healthcare, specifically with regard to the effects of clinical data provenance upon training and constraining data corpora.