Biography:Roxana Rose Daneshjou

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Roxana Rose Daneshjou is an medical doctor, 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 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 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.[3][10]

She is also a founder of Treehub,[4] AIHF's residency program designed to fund, 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD | Stanford Medicine" (in en-US). https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/roxana-daneshjou. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD's Profile | Stanford Profiles" (in en). https://profiles.stanford.edu/roxana-daneshjou. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Davis, Dominic-Madori (2026-04-22). "Esther and Anne Wojcicki back new healthcare accelerator, fund" (in en-US). https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/esther-and-anne-wojcicki-back-new-healthcare-accelerator-fund/. 
  4. ↑ 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" (in en-US). https://observer.com/2026/04/esther-wojcicki-mary-minno-ai-healthcare-fund/. 
  5. ↑ "Treehub and AI Health Fund Launch Residency to Back Early-Stage Academic Founders in AI Healthcare" (in en). https://hlth.com/insights/news/treehub-and-ai-health-fund-launch-residency-to-back-early-stage-academic-founders-in-ai-healthcare. 
  6. ↑ Development, PodBean. "Interrogating AI Fairness and Bias in Dermatology and Beyond with Dr. Roxana Daneshjou | NEJM AI Grand Rounds" (in en). https://ai-podcast.nejm.org/e/14-interrogating-ai-fairness-and-bias-in-dermatology-and-beyond-with-dr-roxana-daneshjou/. 
  7. ↑ Daneshjou, Roxana; Vodrahalli, Kailas; Novoa, Roberto A.; Jenkins, Melissa; Liang, Weixin; Rotemberg, Veronica; Ko, Justin; Swetter, Susan M. et al. (2022-08-12). "Disparities in dermatology AI performance on a diverse, curated clinical image set". Science Advances 8 (32). doi:10.1126/sciadv.abq6147. PMID 35960806. PMC 9374341. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abq6147. 
  8. ↑ Omiye, Jesutofunmi A.; Lester, Jenna C.; Spichak, Simon; Rotemberg, Veronica; Daneshjou, Roxana (2023-10-20). "Large language models propagate race-based medicine" (in en). npj Digital Medicine 6 (1): 195. doi:10.1038/s41746-023-00939-z. ISSN 2398-6352. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-023-00939-z. 
  9. ↑ Burke, Garance; O'brien, Matt (2023-10-20). "Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism" (in en). https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatbots-racist-medicine-chatgpt-bard-6f2a330086acd0a1f8955ac995bdde4d. 
  10. ↑ "Q&A: Treehub with AI Health Fund launches to back academic innovators in healthcare AI | MobiHealthNews" (in en). 2026-04-22. https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/qa-treehub-ai-health-fund-launches-back-academic-innovators-healthcare-ai. 
  11. ↑ "Treehub launches with Tim Draper and Anne Wojcicki to back the next wave of AI health founders" (in en-US). 2026-04-22. https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/22/treehub-launches-tim-draper-anne-wojcicki-back-next-wave-ai-health-founders/. 
  12. ↑ Pennic, Fred (2026-04-22). "Treehub Launches Stanford-Adjacent AI Health Residency for Early-Stage Academic Founders" (in en-US). https://hitconsultant.net/2026/04/22/treehub-launch-ai-health-residency-stanford-founders/. 
  13. ↑ "Biotech" (in en-US). https://pear.vc/how-we-invest/our-verticals/biotech/. 
  14. ↑ "Roxana Daneshjou on "The AI Revolution in Medicine, Revisited" podcast – Stanford – Department of Biomedical Data Science" (in en-US). 2025-05-22. https://dbds.stanford.edu/roxana-daneshjou-on-the-ai-revolution-in-medicine-revisited-podcast/. 
  15. ↑ "Dr. Roxana Daneshjou | Global Dermatology" (in en). https://www.global-dermatology.com/en/speakers/roxana-daneshjou-7c7. 
  16. ↑ "Roxana Daneshjou - SKIN DIGITAL SUMMIT" (in en-US). https://www.skindigitalsummit.com/speaker/roxana-daneshjou/. 
  17. ↑ "Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD - Skin of Color Society". https://skinofcolorsociety.org/events/dr-profiles/roxana-daneshjou-md-phd. 



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