Shauna Overgaard, PhD

Co-Director of AI Validation and Stewardship Program • Mayo Clinic

Dr. Shauna Overgaard leads the development and application of standardized approaches to create, test, implement, and monitor AI-based digital solutions, including developing the Mayo Clinic AI Evaluation and Documentation Framework. Dr. Overgaard established the Mayo Clinic AI Translation Advisory Board for multidisciplinary AI translation and enterprise integration and was recently appointed Co-Director of the Mayo Clinic AI Validation and Stewardship Program. She serves as an advisor on the Mayo Clinic SaMD Review Board for regulatory determination of AI solutions and on a national level as Co-Chair of the Coalition for Health AI Transparency Working Group, Co-Chair of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) AI Evaluation Showcase, and Co-Chair of the National Academy of Medicine AI Code of Conduct Health Systems and Payers Working Group. Dr. Overgaard is Co-Director of the course Introduction to Deployment, Adoption & Maintenance of Artificial Intelligence Models/Algorithms in the Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AIHC) Graduate Program at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. Before her work in AI translation, she was involved in clinical research focused on the development of diagnostic tests leveraging principles of graph theory and multimodal data in the realm of neuroimaging, proteomic, and genomic data. Through this work, she maintains a responsibility to help facilitate national consensus-building efforts related to medical informatics and health AI.