NEW YORK, NY – The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has launched the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Children’s Health, the first dedicated center of its kind in New York City.
Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Ph.D, an expert in digital health and clinical informatics, will lead the center, which will develop AI-powered solutions to enhance diagnostics and optimize health care delivery for youth and adolescents.
“The Center for AI in Children’s Health underscores Mount Sinai’s commitment to pioneering AI-driven technologies that will enable Mount Sinai to deliver world-class care to our children,” said Mount Sinai Health System’s Center CEO Dr. Brendan Carr and Distinguished Chair Dr. Kenneth Davis. “As one of the first centers of its kind in New York City and nationwide, this unique and groundbreaking initiative positions Mount Sinai at the forefront of innovation in health care.”
Dr. Dennis S. Charney, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz, dean at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and president for academic affairs of the Mount Sinai Health System, respectively, sang the praises of AI.
“The establishment of the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Children’s Health exemplifies Mount Sinai’s dedication to integrating cutting-edge technologies into patient care,” they said. “By harnessing the power of AI, we are offering more precise diagnostics and personalized treatments for our youngest patients. With Dr. Glicksberg at the helm, this new center will be instrumental in shaping the future of pediatric medicine as we take bold steps toward innovation and excellence in health care for the next generation.”
Glicksberg will also serve as associate professor of AI and human health at the Icahn School of Medicine.
“While AI has advanced at a remarkable pace in many areas of medicine, pediatric medicine has unfortunately lagged due to stricter privacy considerations, more complicated regulatory pathways, and limited data infrastructure,” Glicksberg said. “This new center is dedicated to addressing these challenges by safely developing, testing, and embedding AI directly into child health care — enabling earlier diagnoses, preventive measures, computer-augmented imaging for complex conditions, expedited drug discovery, and highly personalized treatment plans.”
The Center will focus on:
- Building an AI-driven Children’s Health Data Hub to unify multi-modal and multi-omic patient data.
- Spearheading clinical trials for AI approaches to enhance diagnostics, predictive modeling, and real-time monitoring at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital.
- Advancing personalized medicine through multi-omics research, rare disease identification, and pharmacogenomics.
- Optimizing health care delivery with Mount Sinai’s Center for Child Health Services Research to leverage AI for improving efficiency, patient outcomes, and resource allocation.
Glicksberg joins Mount Sinai with significant academic and industry experience. He previously was an assistant professor in genetics and genomic sciences and a member of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health at Mount Sinai. He then served on the leadership team at a genomics-based drug discovery startup targeting progressive diseases of aging.
The Center for Artificial Intelligence in Children’s Health is established under The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, directed by Dr. Bruce D. Gelb and co-sponsored by the Windreich Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at Mount Sinai, chaired by Dr. Girish N. Nadkarni.
“As chair of the Windreich Department of AI and Human Health, I’m proud to co-sponsor the Center for AI in Children’s Health,” Dr. Nadkarni said. “By harnessing the power of advanced data science and clinical expertise, we aim to usher in a new era for child health care.”
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with 48,000 employees working across seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 600 research and clinical labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education.
The Health System includes approximately 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians and 11 free-standing joint-venture centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida.
