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Mark Scheetz

Mark Scheetz

Professor of Pharmacy & Pharmacology at Midwestern University, infectious diseases pharmacist, and director of the Pharmacometrics Center of Excellence specializing in AI, precision dosing, and antimicrobial stewardship.

Jun 30, 2026

1:43
But what is the central message of your paper, and why do you feel this was an important message for pharmacists right now?
1:50
Yeah, definitely.
1:51
Thanks, Tom.
1:52
I can usually write better than I can speak, so I definitely encourage people to read it if they get the chance.
1:58
But the central message is one that I think we're all facing, right? AI is here.
2:05
It is definitely a thing.
2:07
AI was something that initially was thought to be very futuristic, pie in the sky, something that could never deliver on many of the aims that it had set out for.

6 MINS LATER

8:03
So the one thing, and I think you do a very nice job addressing this in your editorial, is will machines eventually outthink clinicians? Kind of thinking about your area of expertise, infectious diseases, are there clinical decision making that you think AI will do, will assist or do better than humans? But ultimately, given all the nuances across infectious diseases and other clinical domains, what aspects will still require that human expertise that a machine will never be able to substitute for?

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