University of Alberta
Adult Neurology Residency, 2022-2027. Lead Resident, 2024-2025.
About
About Liam G. McCoy
Neurology resident. Clinical AI researcher. Occasional writer.
Bio
I am an adult neurology resident at the University of Alberta and a research affiliate at MIT IMES. My work focuses on clinical reasoning, large language models in medicine, health equity, neuroethics, and functional neurological disorder.
Education
Training
University of Toronto
MD, 2018-2022. Computing for Medicine Certificate. Junior Fellow at Massey College.
University of Toronto
MSc in Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, 2019-2020.
University of Alberta
Honors Neuroscience coursework; Lougheed Scholar.
Research roles
Collaborations
MIT Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Visiting Scientist in 2024; ongoing research affiliate.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Clinical reasoning, LLM evaluation, EMR integration, and chart review.
MIT Critical Data Lab
Bias, dataset shift, global health data science, and clinical AI deployment.
Centre for Ethics and related collaborations
AI, evidence, clinical decision-making, neuroethics, capacity, and explainability.
Other threads
Writing, teaching, and service
Teaching and invited talks
Talks and teaching at RCSI, Harvard Medical School, MIT, Tokyo Datathon, Taiwan Datathon, and other venues.
Review and editorial work
Guest editor, associate editor, and reviewer across medical and machine learning venues.
Journalism and public work
Toronto Star investigative research and COVID-19 data work with HowsMyFlattening.ca.
Occasional poetry
One poem in Palette Magazine.