By Victor Uteshev, PhD Drs. Amy Waterman, Director of the Patient Engagement Research Lab in Surgery at Houston Methodist, and Dr. Paula Shireman, Professor in the Departments of Medical Physiology, Primary Care, and Rural Medicine at the College of Medicine at Texas A&M University, first crossed paths because of their separate, but overlapping interests in surgery, artificial intelligence (AI) and reducing disparities. Both had begun to study the transformative role of AI-based data analytics …