Daniel Hashimoto is assistant professor of surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and leads the department of surgery’s Penn Computer Assisted Surgery and Outcomes (PCASO) Lab. His research focuses on leveraging computer vision to augment surgical decision-making in the operating room and to provide data-augmented guidance to surgeons during operations to improve patient outcomes and reduce the likelihood of intraoperative adverse events.  

He has published in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Medical Image Analysis, Annals of Surgery, and others. His work has been featured in CBS News, The Atlantic, PBS Newshour, the New York Times, and TED. He served as program chair for the clinical translation program CLINICCAI at MICCAI 2022 and serves on the working group for surgical informatics of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the Committee on Emerging Surgical Technologies and Education for the American College of Surgeons.  He is co-founder and vice chair of the Global Surgical AI Collaborative, a nonprofit that promotes the democratization of surgical care through the intersection of education, innovation, and technology.

Websites: https://pcasolab.org & https://surgicalai.org