Augmenting Medicine with AI — Hassan Tetteh, MD, on Innovation in Healthcare

Dr. Hassan Tetteh is a decorated Navy captain and Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, and adjunct faculty at Howard University College of Medicine. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, he was deployed in Afghanistan and on warships in the Persian Gulf. He’s also an unabashed medical “nerd,” part of a cadre of physicians board-certified in clinical informatics.

He was selected a 2019 Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine. Currently, Dr. Tetteh is a Thoracic Surgeon for MedStar Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he leads the Specialized Thoracic Adapted Recovery (STAR) Team in Washington, DC, and his research in thoracic transplantation aims to expand heart and lung recovery.

A native of Brooklyn, Dr. Tetteh received his BS from State University of New York, his MD from their Downstate Medical Center, his MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, an MBA from Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, and an MS in National Security Strategy with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, from the National War College. He completed his thoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Minnesota and advanced cardiac surgery fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and…