Lawrence Fu-Nien Chu MD

Summary

• Larry Chu, MD is a Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine and Director of the Stanford Anesthesia Informatics and Media (AIM) Lab. Dr. Chu founded the START online educational program as well as the Learnly online learning ecosystem for post-graduate anesthesiology education. He is an NIH-funded clinical researcher and Director of the Stanford Anesthesia Summer Institutes (SASI), which provides immersive experiences with Stanford faculty and real patients, delivering unparalleled quality education, inspiring and challenging those with early health-career interests to delve deep into the realms of science, technology, and medicine.
  
  Dr. Chu is also actively involved in research exploring the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) in Anesthesiology, focusing on improving patient-centered care through enabling co-produced team-based solutions with Everyone Included (www.everyoneincluded.org). He has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) including RO1 and K-award grants, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), the World Health Organization, Pfizer, Lilly, Boehringer Ingelheim, and others. He is the founding co-editor-in-chief of the anesthesiology textbook "Manual of Clinical Anesthesiology" published by Wolters Kluwer. He has written 8 books and 85 peer-reviewed journal articles in academic anesthesiology and medicine. He is a former long-serving member of the editorial advisory board for The BMJ, one of the most influential general medical journals in the world.