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Iyad Sultan

Iyad Sultan

Institution
Paediatric Oncologist and Chief Health Informatics Officer, King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman
Country
Jordan

Biography

Iyad Sultan is a paediatric oncologist at King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC), Amman, Jordan, where Dr. Sultan is Chief Health Informatics Officer and heads the center's artificial intelligence office. Dr. Sultan is also affiliated with the School of Medicine at the University of Jordan. Clinical research covers childhood cancers including retinoblastoma and Wilms tumour, with recent studies on centralised multidisciplinary retinoblastoma care and on retinoblastoma among children from Gaza. A second line of work applies artificial intelligence in medicine, including a study of ChatGPT for predicting cancer predisposition genes and a study of how medical students and ophthalmologists view trust, bias and responsibility in artificial intelligence for ophthalmology. Dr. Sultan has lectured on the role of artificial intelligence in advanced medical research.