Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD

Trevor A. Cohen, MBChB PhD FACMI is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education and an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle. Prior to his research career, he trained and practiced as a physician with a clinical interest in mental health. His research focuses on computational models of language and their biomedical applications, with application areas including literature-based discovery, post-marketing surveillance, plain language summarization, debiasing of deep learning models, and detection of linguistic indicators of psychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions. Dr. Cohen is an editor of a textbook on AI in medicine, and recently co-led the UW Medicine Large Language Models Workgroup, which drew together stakeholders and content experts to develop institutional guidance for the deployment of generative AI tools in clinical settings. Dr. Cohen is a co-editor of the forthcoming JAMIA focus issue on Large Language models.