Join us for this two-part webinar series where Dr Soufiane Azdad and Dr Matthew Cecchini explore how AI is not here to replace the pathologist, but to act as a powerful tool that augments human brilliance.

When: 

Episode 1: Tuesday, May 19th at 3pm BST/ 10am EDT

Episode 2: **POSTPONED** until July

Speakers: Dr Soufiane Akdad & Dr Matthew Cecchini

Title: Human Brilliance, Augmented: Mastering Medical Information Overload with RAG and Second Brains

Episode 1 - The Cognitive Copilot: Taming Information Overload

Part 1 - The Problem: Information Overload in Medicine

The exponential growth of medical literature, complex classification updates, and the cognitive load on practicing pathologists. Why generic LLMs fall short in clinical settings — hallucinations, lack of source grounding, and insufficient reliability for medical decision-making.

Part 2 - Grounded AI: Retrieval-Augmented Generation at Scale

Pathology Outlines

MyPathologyReport.com Osler

Brief overview of NotebookLM as an accessible entry point for source-grounded AI.

Part 3 - The Second Brain: Building a Living Knowledge Ecosystem

The second brain concept: moving beyond simple PDF querying to a comprehensive, interconnected knowledge graph linking diagnoses, IHC panels, molecular testing, and case notes.

Demo of the daily workflow — capturing, linking, and retrieving knowledge at the point of need.

LLM-KB-Wiki: the emerging approach (inspired by Andrej Karpathy) of giving an LLM the structured index of your knowledge base rather than traditional RAG.

Local LLM deployment via Ollama on Mac Studio (M4 Max, 128GB) — guaranteed patient privacy, zero-cost inference.

Multi-agent systems interacting with customized wikis as a tailored diagnostic co-pilot.

Episode 2 - The Augmented Lab: From Education to the Grossing Room

Part 4 - Transforming Medical Education

Generating educational outputs directly from the second brain — interactive study aids, flashcards, quizzes, and visual concept maps for medical students and residents. Journal club automation: scanning, triaging, and summarizing new literature from targeted journals.

Part 5 - The Augmented Pathology Workflow

How AI-powered knowledge systems pair with physical workflow innovations (e.g., computer vision in automated pre-analytical steps) to create the pathology lab of the future. Emphasis on privacy-first, on-premises architecture.