Punit Virk
University of Alberta, Canada
Title: Transforming Pathology: Biotechnology as a positive feedback loop for the evolution of anatomical pathology
Biography
Biography: Punit Virk
Abstract
Many are familiar with the Moore's law exponential curve of price performance of computing and the extension of its influence over the world, in general. This idea is rooted in the belief that machines will be smarter than the whole human race combined in 2045 and will possess the means to take over the future agenda of the world. Moore's law in muted in medicine due to regulatory and safety considerations. So what stimulates exponential change in pathology? What are the drivers and inhibitors? Are our digital pathology systems going to wake up some day soon and tell us they can do our work better than we can? Will they be right about that? How much of a pathologist's work can only be done by a human being? When does the permanent vacation for flesh and blood pathologists begin? We all have a stake in the answers to these questions which pathologists seem to have been reluctant to ask until now!