Roxana Rose Daneshjou
Roxana Rose Daneshjou is an physician, assistant professor at Stanford University,[1][2] and venture capitalist working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare.[3] She is also associated with research examining behavioral tendencies in large language models, including work related to sycophantic responses in AI systems.[3][4][5]
Early life and Education
She was born in Lewisville, Texas to immigrants from Iran. She attended high school at the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science and then went on to Rice University where she received a B.S. in Bioengineering. She completed her MD/PhD at Stanford School of Medicine with Drs. Russ Altman and Carlos Bustamante as her thesis advisors.[6] She went on to complete residency in Dermatology at Stanford and a postdoc in Artificial Intelligence with Dr. James Zou.
Career
Daneshjou is an assistant professor at Stanford University,[1][2] where she works within an interdisciplinary environment spanning medicine, data science, and biomedical informatics. Her work often examines how diagnostic algorithms may behave differently depending on skin tone or demographic representation in training datasets.[7] Her lab put out one of the early papers showing that large language models had racial biases when asked medical questions.[8] These investigations have placed her research within wider academic and policy discussions about equity in AI-driven healthcare.[9]
Beyond her academic research, Daneshjou is active in translational and entrepreneurial efforts aimed at bringing AI tools into healthcare practice. She is involved with AI Health Fund (AIHF), a venture initiative that supports early-stage healthcare companies developing artificial intelligence technologies.[10][3]
She is also associated with Treehub,[4] a program designed to support and mentor founders working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare innovation.[4][11][12] The initiative emphasizes early-stage development, interdisciplinary collaboration, and practical deployment of AI systems in medical contexts. In addition, she serves in an advisory role on the Health and Biotech Advisory Boards of Pear VC, contributing expertise on healthcare technologies and AI product development strategy.[13]
Daneshjou has participated in academic and industry-facing discussions on the ethical and regulatory implications of artificial intelligence in healthcare.[14] Her work engages with questions around model transparency, clinical accountability, and the risks associated with deploying large-scale machine learning systems in high-stakes medical environments. She is frequently involved in interdisciplinary collaborations that include clinicians, engineers, and researchers working on AI safety and healthcare innovation.[15][16][17]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD | Stanford Medicine". CAP Profiles. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Davis, Dominic-Madori (2026-04-22). "Esther and Anne Wojcicki back new healthcare accelerator, fund". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Tremayne-Pengelly, Alexandra (2026-04-22). "Legendary Educator Esther Wojcicki and Former Student Launch $10M A.I. Health Fund". Observer. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ "Treehub and AI Health Fund Launch Residency to Back Early-Stage Academic Founders in AI Healthcare". HLTH. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ Development, PodBean. "Interrogating AI Fairness and Bias in Dermatology and Beyond with Dr. Roxana Daneshjou | NEJM AI Grand Rounds". ai-podcast.nejm.org. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ Daneshjou, Roxana; Vodrahalli, Kailas; Novoa, Roberto A.; Jenkins, Melissa; Liang, Weixin; Rotemberg, Veronica; Ko, Justin; Swetter, Susan M.; Bailey, Elizabeth E.; Gevaert, Olivier; Mukherjee, Pritam; Phung, Michelle; Yekrang, Kiana; Fong, Bradley; Sahasrabudhe, Rachna (2022-08-12). "Disparities in dermatology AI performance on a diverse, curated clinical image set". Science Advances. 8 (32): eabq6147. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abq6147. PMC 9374341 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 35960806 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Omiye, Jesutofunmi A.; Lester, Jenna C.; Spichak, Simon; Rotemberg, Veronica; Daneshjou, Roxana (2023-10-20). "Large language models propagate race-based medicine". npj Digital Medicine. 6 (1): 195. doi:10.1038/s41746-023-00939-z. ISSN 2398-6352.
- ↑ Burke, Garance; O’brien, Matt (2023-10-20). "Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism". AP News. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ "Q&A: Treehub with AI Health Fund launches to back academic innovators in healthcare AI | MobiHealthNews". www.mobihealthnews.com. 2026-04-22. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ "Treehub launches with Tim Draper and Anne Wojcicki to back the next wave of AI health founders". SiliconANGLE. 2026-04-22. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ Pennic, Fred (2026-04-22). "Treehub Launches Stanford-Adjacent AI Health Residency for Early-Stage Academic Founders". Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ "Biotech". Pear VC. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ "Roxana Daneshjou on "The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited" podcast – Stanford – Department of Biomedical Data Science". 2025-05-22. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ "Dr. Roxana Daneshjou | Global Dermatology". www.global-dermatology.com. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ "Roxana Daneshjou - SKIN DIGITAL SUMMIT". Retrieved 2026-07-17.
- ↑ "Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD - Skin of Color Society". skinofcolorsociety.org. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
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