Rachel Draelos
Founder & Principal Consultant at Glass Box Medicine
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRachel Draelos is a physician-engineer and founder who combines an MD with a PhD in computer science to build safe, practical AI for healthcare. As Founder & Principal Consultant at Glass Box Medicine she has completed 100+ engagements across specialties and data types, guiding AI strategy and implementation from EHRs and omics to 2D/3D medical imaging. She previously commercialized a clinical AI scribe platform at Cydoc, earned two U.S. patents, and ran a widely read Glass Box Medicine blog with over 700,000 viewers. Known for blending expert systems, classical ML, and modern deep learning/LLM techniques, she emphasizes robustness, interpretability, and clinical utility. Based in Durham, NC, she was the first to graduate from Duke with an MD and a Computer Science PhD, a detail that underscores her rare cross-disciplinary depth.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine - MD, Doctor of Medicine - MD at Duke UniversityRedmond High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biological Sciences, concentration Computational Biology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biological Sciences, concentration Computational Biology at Cornell University
Github Skills (25)
xai10
grad-cam10
image-classification9
expert-system9
pytorch9
similarity9
classification9
torchvision9
visualizations9
segmentation9
image-segmentation9
object-detection9
computer-vision9
volumes8
prediction8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rachellea/glassboxmedicine
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
rachellea/sarle-labeler
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Automatic extraction of structured labels from radiology reports. From paper Draelos et al. "Machine-Learning-Based Multiple Abnormality Prediction with Large-Scale Chest Computed Tomography Volumes."
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 10 months
extractionradiology-label-extractionchest-ct-reportsradiology-reportsreports
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