Maxim Topaz
Building AI that helps nurses and doctors make better decisions. And auditing the scientific record in the age of AI.
Research
$25M+ in funding. 238+ publications on AI in healthcare, clinical decision support, and nursing informatics.
→Speaking
TEDx and AMIA keynote speaker. Global keynotes on AI in healthcare, from Tokyo to Denver to São Paulo.
→Writing & Press
LinkedIn writing on AI in healthcare, plus coverage from Nature Medicine, Health Affairs, and other outlets.
→References to nowhere.
An automated audit of citation integrity across 2.5 million biomedical papers uncovers a rising signature of references that cite studies which do not exist. More than twelve times the rate of three years ago.
Read the investigation →From Army medic to Columbia.
My journey began in the field as an Army medic and Registered Nurse, experiences that taught me what patients truly need. Today, I channel that frontline wisdom into building AI tools that help nurses and doctors make better decisions, faster.
As a Fulbright Fellow at UPenn and one of the first nurse scientists to complete a postdoc at Harvard Medical School, I've bridged the gap between clinical practice and cutting-edge technology.
Now at Columbia University and VNS Health, I lead a team developing AI that predicts which patients need help before a crisis happens, especially in home healthcare, where early intervention saves lives.
Most recently, that work has widened to scientific integrity in the age of AI: our CITADEL audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers, published in The Lancet, uncovered thousands of fabricated citations entering the literature. That work is now shaping how journals, publishers, and funders verify the scientific record.
Radical System Transformation
TEDxNightingale College · Salt Lake City · 2026
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