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Kevin Cheng

Kevin Cheng

Chief Financial & Operating Officer at Harrison.ai

Founder

Dr Kevin Cheng is Chief Financial and Operating Officer at Harrison.ai, a Sydney medical AI company building radiology and pathology tools to ease global clinician shortages; he previously served as the company's Chief Customer Officer. An Australian-trained GP with an MBA from INSEAD, he has practised medicine in Australia, Hong Kong, London and Africa, and earlier founded and ran Osana, a preventative primary-care clinic, alongside roles at McKinsey, BCG and Medibank. On In The Blink Of AI, he discussed Harrison.ai's mission of saving lives with AI.

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From Saving Lives with AI: The Story Behind Harrison AI · In The Blink Of AI
AI can be assistive, it can augment, or it can become fully autonomous, and we're still at the infancy of the whole AI era.
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Career

  1. Now Chief Financial & Operating Officer · Harrison.ai
  2. Earlier · Startup Chief Medical Officer · Heidi Health
  3. Earlier Consultant · Boston Consulting Group
  4. Earlier Consultant · McKinsey & Company
  5. Earlier Advisory/analytics role · Quantium
  6. Earlier Medical Advisor · Bupa

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Key moments

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  1. 0:00 AI Detects Early-Stage Lung Cancer: A Life-Saving Moment
  2. 2:14 How AI is Transforming Radiology and Pathology
  3. 3:57 Why Kevin Left Medicine to Join Harrison AI
  4. 6:23 The Challenges of Building AI in Healthcare
  5. 9:19 Global Regulatory Hurdles and Market Expansion
  6. 12:34 How AI Supports, Not Replaces, Doctors
  7. 16:40 The Future of AI in Consumer-Driven Healthcare
  8. 32:04 Real-World Impact: A Patient’s Life Saved by AI
  9. 36:48 The Road Ahead: Scaling AI to Millions of Patients
  10. 39:25 Addressing Public Fear and Misinformation About AI

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In The Blink Of AI · 7 February 2025 Saving Lives with AI: The Story Behind Harrison AI

Harrison.ai on Day One

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