My research focuses on the practical deployment of large language models (LLMs) in healthcare settings. I am passionate about understanding how to safely deploy these incredible models to augment clinical decision-making. Specifically, I aim to answer questions such as:
To address these questions, I currently serve as the Head of Clinical NLP at OpenEvidence, where I oversee OpenEvidence + ClinicalKey AI, a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) tool that is already being used in several hospital systems! I recently graduated from MIT in May of 2024, where I was advised by the amazing Peter Szolovits. Prior to that, I worked with the fantastic Byron Wallace at Northeastern University.
May 1st, 2024 — Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis on "Practical Considerations For the Deployment of Clinical NLP Systems" at MIT, advised by the incredible Peter Szolovits!
June 23rd, 2023 — We won best paper at CHIL 2023.
July 1, 2022 — Excited to announce that I've joined OpenEvidence to lead their Clinical NLP research team.
Travis Zack*, Eric Lehman*, Mirac Suzgun, Jorge A Rodriguez, Leo Anthony Celi, Judy Gichoya, Dan Jurafsky, Peter Szolovits, David W Bates, Raja-Elie E Abdulnour, Atul Butte, Emily Alsentzer. Assessing the Potential of GPT-4 To Perpetuate Racial and Gender Biases in Health Care: A Model Evaluation Study, Lancet Digital Health, 2023.
Eric Lehman, Evan Hernandez, Diwakar Mahajan, Jonas Wulff, Micah J Smith, Zachary Ziegler, Daniel Nadler, Peter Szolovits, Alistair Johnson, Emily Alsentzer. Do We Still Need Clinical Language Models?, Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL), 2023.
Eric Lehman*, Sarthak Jain*, Karl Pichotta, Yoav Goldberg, Byron C. Wallace." Does BERT Pretrained on Clinical Notes Reveal Sensitive Data?, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2021.
Eric Lehman, Jay DeYoung, Regina Barzilay, Byron C. Wallace." Inferring Which Medical Treatments Work from Reports of Clinical Trials, North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2019.