The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has introduced the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Children’s Health in New York City, US, aimed at leveraging AI to enhance paediatric healthcare outcomes.
The centre is set to develop AI-driven tools to refine diagnostics, tailor treatments, and optimise health care delivery for children and adolescents.
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Under the leadership of Dr Benjamin Glicksberg, a specialist in digital health and clinical informatics, the centre will address the challenges of applying AI in child healthcare.
These include navigating complex regulatory environments and overcoming resource limitations that have historically impeded the integration of AI technologies in this field.
The centre’s strategy includes the creation of an AI-driven Children’s Health Data Hub, which will centralise diverse patient data types.
This hub will be instrumental in conducting clinical trials for AI methodologies that can enhance diagnostic accuracy, predictive modelling and real-time patient monitoring at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital.
In addition to diagnostics, the centre will focus on personalising medicine via research in multi-omics, identification of rare diseases, and pharmacogenomics.
It will also collaborate with Mount Sinai’s Center for Child Health Services Research to utilise AI in streamlining care delivery, and ensuring efficient resource distribution.
Dr Glicksberg said: “While AI has advanced at a remarkable pace in many areas of medicine, paediatric medicine has unfortunately lagged due to stricter privacy considerations, more complicated regulatory pathways, and limited data infrastructure.
“This new centre is dedicated to addressing these challenges by safely developing, testing, and embedding AI directly into child health care—enabling earlier diagnoses, preventive measures, computer-augmented imaging for complex conditions, expedited drug discovery, and highly personalised treatment plans.”
The Center for Artificial Intelligence in Children’s Health operates under The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute.
This development follows the October 2024 inauguration of the Cohen Center for Recovery From Complex Chronic Illnesses (CoRE) by The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance.
