Our Team
The People Behind UT-REAL
A multi-institutional team of clinician-educators, engineers, and researchers working to bring AI-enabled assessment to every UT medical school.
Principal Investigators
Andrew R. Jamieson, PhD
Principal Investigator
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Principal Investigator. Assistant Professor in the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics at UT Southwestern and director of the Jamieson Lab, where the team built the MAPLES AI grading platform from the ground up — now in production with 7,000+ encounters graded.
Judah Gruen, MD
Co-Principal Investigator
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Co-PI and clinical education lead. Internal Medicine Clerkship Director at UT Southwestern and the clinical voice shaping how AI grading serves educators and students. Leads IRB strategy, multi-site coordination, and validation of AI against expert human raters. Also leading national collaborations to scale the UTSW-developed technology to partner institutions beyond the UT System.
Site Leads
Bindu Akkanti, MD
Site Co-PI
UT Health Houston — McGovern School of Medicine
Dean of Clinical Education at McGovern School of Medicine. Leading UT Houston's participation in the UT-REAL consortium.
Lindsey Stockton, MD
Site Co-PI
UT Tyler School of Medicine
Internal Medicine Clerkship Director at UT Tyler. Leading UT Tyler's participation in the UT-REAL consortium and contributing to the AIMW26 multi-site validation study.
Wayne Wilson, MD, MS, FACOG
Site Co-PI
UT Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine
Director of Clinical Skills Module (MS2) at UT Rio Grande Valley. Leading UT RGV's participation in the UT-REAL consortium.
John Cunningham, MD, FHM, FACP
Site Co-PI
UT San Antonio — Long School of Medicine
Interim Assistant Dean for Preclerkship Curriculum at Long School of Medicine. Leading UT San Antonio's participation in the UT-REAL consortium.
Sidra Qureshi, MD
Site Co-PI
UTMB Galveston — John Sealy School of Medicine
Internal Medicine Clerkship Director at UTMB Galveston. Leading UTMB's participation in the UT-REAL consortium.
Project Team
Michael Holcomb, MS
Senior Engineer & Technical Lead
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Senior engineer overseeing the overall technical architecture of the UT-REAL consortium. Core creator of the "rubrics to prompts" design — the foundational methodology published in NEJM AI that translates clinical rubrics into AI-grading specifications. Leads multi-site integration, infrastructure strategy, and platform engineering.
Tra Ngo, PhD
Project Coordinator
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Project Coordinator for the UT-REAL consortium. Manages site logistics, meeting documentation, reporting cadence, and cross-institutional coordination.
Ameer Hamza Shakur, PhD
AI Scientist & Engineer
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Original creator of the MAPLES platform — named it, designed the UI, and built the workflow orchestration engine that powers AI grading at scale. Co-author on the NEJM AI and arXiv publications establishing AI-based OSCE transcript grading.
David Hein, MS
Data Scientist & Engineer
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Core developer and architect of Elephant, the data catalog backend that manages multi-site data ingestion, storage, and provenance for the MAPLES platform. Co-author on publications in NEJM AI, JMIR AI, and npj Digital Medicine. Winner of the UTSW AI Innovations Challenge (2024).