Thomas Savage, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. His research centers around artificial intelligence applications for clinical medicine and operations. He leverages his programming experience and background in natural language processing to develop innovative solutions for clinical practice. He specializes in fine tuning large language models, conversational AI, and EHR search methods.
Dr. Savage received his MD from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and completed his internal medicine residency at Stanford University Hospital. His work has been featured in NEJM Catalyst, NPJ Digital Medicine, JAMA, JAMIA, and Academic Medicine.

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Thomas Savage, MD
- Assistant Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
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