Summer 2022 Topical Lecture Series 4
A/Prof. Megan Hyun PhD
University of Nebraska Medical Centre
Department of Radiation Oncology
Date: Monday Nov 28 2022
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine has become a hot topic in recent years, opening up a world of possibilities for automation, precision medicine, and changing roles for human medical practitioners. Along with the opportunities of medical AI, several ethical dilemmas arise that impact the development and implementation of these tools; this means it is critical for all stakeholders to have a solid understanding of fundamental bioethics principles and how to apply them in research and clinical practice.
In this lecture, I will present a fundamental moral framework and its underlying principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. I will overview some current and emerging applications of AI in radiology and radiation oncology along with the ethical dilemmas that arise from these applications. These include concerns such as bias in datasets, just distribution of resources on a global scale, and the role of human practitioners. Attendees should be able to use this moral engagement as an example of how they can approach ethical dilemmas that arise when developing or implementing AI tools, or indeed any new technology, for use in medicine
About the Speaker
Dr. Megan Hyun is an associate professor and therapeutic medical physicist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, where she serves as the department’s Medical Physics Residency Program Director. She received her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016, where her research focused on small- and nonstandard-field dosimetry. Dr. Hyun is a passionate educator of students, residents, and patients, and was her department’s first Medical Physics Teacher of the Year in 2020. Her current research interests include adaptive radiotherapy, dosimetry, education, and bioethics. She serves on a number of committees in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine related to ethics, education, and the future of medical physics. Together with her ethicist husband, she has published on the ethics of physicist-patient communication and is the author of an upcoming book chapter on ethics and AI in radiation oncology.
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The Aim of the Topic Series
The Better Healthcare Technology Foundation (BHTF) is the fundraising and research support arm of the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM). One of its primary remits is to help support its members, who are predominately medical physicists and biomedical engineers, in R&D activities.
The aim of this lecture series is to provide the members with a “bigger picture” of what is happening in innovative science and technology to widen their horizons. The four topical lectures per year are intended to have broad appeal that may, in particular, help foster cross-disciplinary collaborations. The BHTF intends to offer pilot research grants from charitable income that will be available to multidisciplinary teams, thereby further encouraging broadening of college member involvement to a wider scope.
All meetings will be held by Zoom at 1pm (AUS East Coast time – NSW/VIC/TAS) on the last Monday of the month indicated and will be of 1 hr duration including Q&A. All welcome – no pre-booking or registration required. All lectures will be recorded for subsequent on-demand review.
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