Ameen Amanian MD, MSE
Otolaryngology (head and neck) Surgery Resident
Department of Surgery
Faculty of Medicine
Ameen is completing his Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery residency at the University of British Columbia. Concurrently, he is pursuing a Master of Science in Engineering at Johns Hopkins University with a focus on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
As an aspiring academic surgeon, he has a passion for integrating technology into the clinical workflow to improve surgical efficiency and optimize patient-centered outcomes. His undergraduate degree was focused on acquiring and utilizing engineering principles to apply in the healthcare field. During medical school, he was a co-founder of a healthcare innovation event, Hatching Health, designed to connect a multidisciplinary group of individuals to create novel solutions to common healthcare problems.
Currently at Johns Hopkins as a Friedman Scholar, he is working on attaining the foundational and technical skills within artificial intelligence to translate into the surgical realm. Ultimately, he hopes to develop a deep learning platform that will integrate patient clinical data, image processing, and high throughput computation to optimize the perioperative care for head and neck cancer patients.
Research Interests: artificial intelligence, deep learning, head and neck oncology, machine learning, medical image analysis, radiomics
