Steven Lin, MD: Family Physician and AI Implementator
Tue Sep 16 2025
Dr. Steven Lin is a practicing family physician, Chief of General Primary Care at Stanford University School of Medicine, the President of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the Founding Director of the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team (HEA3RT).
In this delightful episode, Steve shares his origin story including how he came to North America and how his childhood experiences primed him for a career as an educator and community oriented family physician. Steve also shares how he got into artificial intelligence by successfully partnering with Google, and the work that he's doing with HEAR3T to actually implement AI in both inpatient and outpatient settings (spoiler alert: they're doing some pretty remarkable things!) Ultimately, he shares how family medicine is in the perfect position to have a strategic role in AI, that might just lead to an exciting new chapter for our specialty.
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Dr. Steven Lin is a practicing family physician, Chief of General Primary Care at Stanford University School of Medicine, the President of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the Founding Director of the Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team (HEA3RT). In this delightful episode, Steve shares his origin story including how he came to North America and how his childhood experiences primed him for a career as an educator and community oriented family physician. Steve also shares how he got into artificial intelligence by successfully partnering with Google, and the work that he's doing with HEAR3T to actually implement AI in both inpatient and outpatient settings (spoiler alert: they're doing some pretty remarkable things!) Ultimately, he shares how family medicine is in the perfect position to have a strategic role in AI, that might just lead to an exciting new chapter for our specialty.