Neil Mehta
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 86601 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Neil Mehta |
| NOMBRES | Neil |
| APELLIDO | Mehta |
| FIRMA | MEHTA N |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale-NUS College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6207-6778 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Twelve tips for teaching research skills in the age of agentic AI
BACKGROUND: The recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), from task-specific assistants to autonomous agentic artificial intelligence (AI) are changing how research is conceived, conducted, and written. Across this spectrum AI can now assist with literature searches and synthesis, protocol drafting, statistical analysis, and manuscript preparation, particularly in computational domains. Yet AI outputs remain error-prone, opaq…
Addressing educational overload with generative AI through dual coding and cognitive load theories
WHAT WAS THE EDUCATION CHALLENGE?: Health professions education faces a critical challenge: the volume and complexity of medical knowledge has outpaced the cognitive limits of learners. Cognitive load theory indicates that traditional text-heavy instruction overloads the working memory. Current educational materials fail to leverage the dual coding theory which proposes that content should be presented through both verbal and visual channels. WHA…
Using locally-hosted Small Language Models (SLMs) to protect student, patient and research subject data in Health Professions Education
WHAT WAS THE EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE?: Cloud-based Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly used for Health Professions Education (HPE) teaching and research. A major concern is data privacy, resulting in a potential exposure of student, patient, and research participant data. WHAT WAS THE SOLUTION AND HOW WAS IT IMPLEMENTED?: Language Models to assist the teacher and researcher in completing tasks while minimising the risk of data expos…
In defense of a loose speech theory of knowledge
Investigating feelings of imposterism in first‐year medical student narratives
Pedagogy and generative artificial intelligence
Healthcare educators (HPE) are challenged by rapid developments in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools. They need a standardized model to evaluate these new tools and to guide them in pedagogically-sound integration in the curriculum. PICRAT is an educational model designed specifically to help teachers meet this challenge. NotebookLM is a new multi-featured GenAI tool to help teachers and learners in education and research. Its newe…
Embracing the illusion of explanatory depth
Healthcare educators are exploring ways to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into the curriculum. At the same time, they are concerned about the negative impact on students' cognitive development. There is concern that the students will not learn to think and problem-solve by themselves and instead become dependent on LLMs to find answers. In addition, the students could start accepting the LLM generated responses at face value. The Illusion…
Twelve tips on applying AI tools in HPE scholarship using Boyer’s model
AI has changed the landscape of health professions education. With the hype now behind us, we find ourselves in the phase of reckoning, considering what's next; where do we start and how can educators use these powerful tools for daily teaching and learning. We recognize the great need for training to use AI meaningfully for education. Boyer's model of scholarship provides a pedagogical approach for teaching with AI and how to maximize these effo…
Creating custom GPTs for faculty development
Feedback plays a crucial role in the growth and development of trainees, particularly when addressing areas needing improvement. However, faculty members often struggle to deliver constructive feedback, particularly when discussing underperformance. A key obstacle is the lack of comfort many faculty experience in providing feedback that fosters growth. Traditional faculty development programs designed to address these challenges can be expensive …
Weight-Based Health Care Discrimination and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Black Sexual and Gender Minoritized Assigned Female at Birth Adults in the United States
Introduction: Black sexual and gender minoritized (SGM) people assigned female at birth (AFAB) face notable barriers to cervical cancer screening, including racism, heterosexism, and cisgenderism. Although weight-based discrimination is prevalent in the United States and may compound other forms of discrimination, no study has examined the association between weight-based discrimination in health care settings and Pap test use among Black SGM AFA…
Experiences of gender-affirming practices in healthcare settings and HIV testing among transgender and nonbinary young adults in the United States
Transgender and nonbinary young adults in the United States (U.S.) experience disproportionately high rates of HIV and face unique barriers to accessing HIV testing, a key component of HIV prevention. Gender-affirming practices in healthcare settings may improve care access and reduce care avoidance among transgender and nonbinary people. To our knowledge, no study has examined the association between gender-affirming practices in healthcare sett…
Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in the Health Care Sector
This cross-sectional study examines artificial intelligence use in health care and other industries according to US firms participating in the 2023 to 2025 Business Trends and Outlook Survey
Cutting into Change
Twelve tips on creating and using custom GPTs to enhance health professions education
The custom GPT is the latest powerful feature added to ChatGPT. Non-programmers can create and share their own GPTs ("chat bots"), allowing Health Professions Educators to apply the capabilities of ChatGPT to create administrative assistants, online tutors, virtual patients, and more, to support their clinical and non-clinical teaching environments. To achieve this correctly, however, requires some skills, and this 12-Tips paper provides those: w…
Invariantism, contextualism, and the explanatory power of knowledge
According to the Epistemic Theory of Mind , knowledge is part of the best overall framework for explaining behavior at the psychological level. This theory, which has become increasingly popular in recent decades, has almost always been conjoined with an invariantist theory of “knows.” In this paper, I argue that this is a mistake: the Epistemic Theory of Mind is far more explanatorily powerful when conjoined with contextualism. I conclude that i…
The Common Kind Theory and The Concept of Perceptual Experience
Profiles of Covid-19 Impact on Informal Caregivers of Older Mexican Americans
Objectives: This manuscript is a descriptive exploratory study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for caregivers of very old Mexican Americans. Methods: Using data from Wave 10 of the Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiological Study of Elderly (2021), we examined the characteristics of caregivers of very old Mexican Americans by their perceived level of impact from the pandemic. We examined sociodemographic characteristics, COVID…
Racial Differences and In-Hospital Outcomes Among Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19
Impact and future of telemedicine amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
Significant progress has been made in using information and communication technologies in medicine, by impacting the quality of health-care delivery system and patient care, and paving the way for ground-breaking tools for e-health and clinical decision-support systems. This study investigates the extent to which the evolution of telemedicine applications has been used to support patient care in Latin America (LATAM) amidst the pandemic. Theoreti…
Older Adults in the United States Have Worse Cardiometabolic Health Compared to England
Explanations for lagging life expectancy in the United States compared to other high-income countries have focused largely on "deaths of despair," but attention has also shifted to the role of stalling improvements in cardiovascular disease and the obesity epidemic. Using harmonized data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study and English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, we assess differences in self-reported and objective measures of health, amon…
Differential Trends in Disability Among Rich and Poor Adults in the United States and England From 2002 to 2016
Improvements in disability were more widespread in England than in the United States between 2002 and 2016. In both countries, the disparity in disability between low- and high-income adults widened for middle-aged adults. Policies targeted at preventing disability among low-income adults should be a priority in both countries
Age-Specific Mortality During the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic and Life Expectancy Changes in the United States and Peer Countries, 1980–2020
U.S. life expectancy declines in 2020 were larger than in peer countries and involved deaths across a broader age range, particularly among young and middle-aged adults. Both the longstanding U.S. e0 disadvantage and acute losses of life in 2020 signal the need for systemic policy changes in the United States
Migration is the Driving Force of Rapid Aging in Puerto Rico
Causes of America’s Lagging Life Expectancy
American life expectancy has fallen far behind its peer countries. The U.S.'s worsening mortality at the prime adult ages and eroding old-age mortality advantage drive its deteriorating performance in international comparisons
The fragmentation of phenomenal character
In this paper, I argue that debates over “phenomenal character” have suffered from fragmentation: philosophers who use the term have had in mind at least three (and probably more) radically different kinds of properties. This has occurred because the expression “what it’s like” exhibits a particularly deep form of context‐sensitivity, and when this expression has been used to define phenomenal character, at least three very different contexts hav…
Continued Increases in the Relative Risk of Death From Smoking
Objectives. We examined changes in the relative risk of death among current and former smokers over recent decades in the United States. Methods. Data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were linked to subsequent deaths. We calculated age-standardized death rates by gender and smoking status, and estimated multivariate discrete time logit regression models. Results. The ri…
Knowledge and Other Norms for Assertion, Action, and Belief
Here I advance a unified account of the structure of the epistemic normativity of assertion, action, and belief. According to my Teleological Account , all of these are epistemically successful just in case they fulfill the primary aim of knowledgeability, an aim which in turn generates a host of secondary epistemic norms. Largely in virtue of this pluralist character, I argue, the Teleological Account is far superior to extant knowledge‐centered…
Causes of America’s Lagging Life Expectancy
American life expectancy has fallen far behind its peer countries. The U.S.'s worsening mortality at the prime adult ages and eroding old-age mortality advantage drive its deteriorating performance in international comparisons
The social determinants of child health
Age-Specific Mortality During the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic and Life Expectancy Changes in the United States and Peer Countries, 1980–2020
U.S. life expectancy declines in 2020 were larger than in peer countries and involved deaths across a broader age range, particularly among young and middle-aged adults. Both the longstanding U.S. e0 disadvantage and acute losses of life in 2020 signal the need for systemic policy changes in the United States
Older Adults in the United States Have Worse Cardiometabolic Health Compared to England
Explanations for lagging life expectancy in the United States compared to other high-income countries have focused largely on "deaths of despair," but attention has also shifted to the role of stalling improvements in cardiovascular disease and the obesity epidemic. Using harmonized data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study and English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, we assess differences in self-reported and objective measures of health, amon…
The fragmentation of phenomenal character
In this paper, I argue that debates over “phenomenal character” have suffered from fragmentation: philosophers who use the term have had in mind at least three (and probably more) radically different kinds of properties. This has occurred because the expression “what it’s like” exhibits a particularly deep form of context‐sensitivity, and when this expression has been used to define phenomenal character, at least three very different contexts hav…
Phenomenal, Normative, and Other Explanatory Gaps
I assume that there exists a general phenomenon, the phenomenon of the explanatory gap , that surrounds consciousness, normativity, intentionality, and more. Explanatory gaps are often thought to foreclose reductive possibilities wherever they appear. In response, reductivists who grant the existence of these gaps have offered countless local solutions. But typically such reductivist responses have a serious shortcoming: because they appeal to es…
The Contribution of Weight Status to Black-White Differences in Mortality
This article examines the contribution of weight status to black-white (B-W) differences in mortality at ages 40-79 using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We measured body mass index (BMI) based on the highest BMI attained and contrasted the contribution of BMI to that of smoking and educational attainment. We estimated both additive and multiplicative models. In addition to estimating regression coefficients we ask…
Profiles of Covid-19 Impact on Informal Caregivers of Older Mexican Americans
Objectives: This manuscript is a descriptive exploratory study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for caregivers of very old Mexican Americans. Methods: Using data from Wave 10 of the Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiological Study of Elderly (2021), we examined the characteristics of caregivers of very old Mexican Americans by their perceived level of impact from the pandemic. We examined sociodemographic characteristics, COVID…
Differential Trends in Disability Among Rich and Poor Adults in the United States and England From 2002 to 2016
Improvements in disability were more widespread in England than in the United States between 2002 and 2016. In both countries, the disparity in disability between low- and high-income adults widened for middle-aged adults. Policies targeted at preventing disability among low-income adults should be a priority in both countries
Migration is the Driving Force of Rapid Aging in Puerto Rico
Obesity-mortality link over the life course
2,176) and evaluate how the mortality risk associated with obesity changes over three age groups (below 45, 45-59, and 60 and above) and how population compositions may contribute to this pattern. We find the hazard ratio associated with obesity compared to normal weight decreases over three age groups, but this pattern is influenced by different ages of onset of obesity, inconsistency in the reference group (normal weight) over ages, and mortali…
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Continued Increases in the Relative Risk of Death From Smoking
Objectives. We examined changes in the relative risk of death among current and former smokers over recent decades in the United States. Methods. Data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were linked to subsequent deaths. We calculated age-standardized death rates by gender and smoking status, and estimated multivariate discrete time logit regression models. Results. The ri…
The social determinants of child health
Knowledge and Other Norms for Assertion, Action, and Belief
Here I advance a unified account of the structure of the epistemic normativity of assertion, action, and belief. According to my Teleological Account , all of these are epistemically successful just in case they fulfill the primary aim of knowledgeability, an aim which in turn generates a host of secondary epistemic norms. Largely in virtue of this pluralist character, I argue, the Teleological Account is far superior to extant knowledge‐centered…
Phenomenal, Normative, and Other Explanatory Gaps
I assume that there exists a general phenomenon, the phenomenon of the explanatory gap , that surrounds consciousness, normativity, intentionality, and more. Explanatory gaps are often thought to foreclose reductive possibilities wherever they appear. In response, reductivists who grant the existence of these gaps have offered countless local solutions. But typically such reductivist responses have a serious shortcoming: because they appeal to es…
The Contribution of Weight Status to Black-White Differences in Mortality
This article examines the contribution of weight status to black-white (B-W) differences in mortality at ages 40-79 using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We measured body mass index (BMI) based on the highest BMI attained and contrasted the contribution of BMI to that of smoking and educational attainment. We estimated both additive and multiplicative models. In addition to estimating regression coefficients we ask…
Visual Phenomenology
It is often held that vision is purely present-tensed; that vision informs us only about how objects in our environment are (more or less) rightnow. It is not hard to tell why this thought is so popular. Just look around and reflect on what you see. I predict that you will get the appeal.As natural as this thought might be, it is mistaken—at least, so says Michael Madary. Madary's thesis can be stated simply:(AF ) Visual perception is an ongoing …
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Including the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Medical Education Program Highlights Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine (SOM) has 2 collaborative MD degree programs: the University Program, established in 1843 as the Western Reserve School of Medicine, and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine (College) program, launched in 2002. The University program’s 4-year curriculum, Western Reserve2, merges the disciplines of public health and medicine into a single inte…
Causes of America’s Lagging Life Expectancy
American life expectancy has fallen far behind its peer countries. The U.S.'s worsening mortality at the prime adult ages and eroding old-age mortality advantage drive its deteriorating performance in international comparisons
The fragmentation of phenomenal character
In this paper, I argue that debates over “phenomenal character” have suffered from fragmentation: philosophers who use the term have had in mind at least three (and probably more) radically different kinds of properties. This has occurred because the expression “what it’s like” exhibits a particularly deep form of context‐sensitivity, and when this expression has been used to define phenomenal character, at least three very different contexts hav…
Obesity-mortality link over the life course
2,176) and evaluate how the mortality risk associated with obesity changes over three age groups (below 45, 45-59, and 60 and above) and how population compositions may contribute to this pattern. We find the hazard ratio associated with obesity compared to normal weight decreases over three age groups, but this pattern is influenced by different ages of onset of obesity, inconsistency in the reference group (normal weight) over ages, and mortali…
Racial Differences and In-Hospital Outcomes Among Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19
Impact and future of telemedicine amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
Significant progress has been made in using information and communication technologies in medicine, by impacting the quality of health-care delivery system and patient care, and paving the way for ground-breaking tools for e-health and clinical decision-support systems. This study investigates the extent to which the evolution of telemedicine applications has been used to support patient care in Latin America (LATAM) amidst the pandemic. Theoreti…
Older Adults in the United States Have Worse Cardiometabolic Health Compared to England
Explanations for lagging life expectancy in the United States compared to other high-income countries have focused largely on "deaths of despair," but attention has also shifted to the role of stalling improvements in cardiovascular disease and the obesity epidemic. Using harmonized data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study and English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, we assess differences in self-reported and objective measures of health, amon…
Differential Trends in Disability Among Rich and Poor Adults in the United States and England From 2002 to 2016
Improvements in disability were more widespread in England than in the United States between 2002 and 2016. In both countries, the disparity in disability between low- and high-income adults widened for middle-aged adults. Policies targeted at preventing disability among low-income adults should be a priority in both countries
Age-Specific Mortality During the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic and Life Expectancy Changes in the United States and Peer Countries, 1980–2020
U.S. life expectancy declines in 2020 were larger than in peer countries and involved deaths across a broader age range, particularly among young and middle-aged adults. Both the longstanding U.S. e0 disadvantage and acute losses of life in 2020 signal the need for systemic policy changes in the United States
Migration is the Driving Force of Rapid Aging in Puerto Rico
The Common Kind Theory and The Concept of Perceptual Experience
Profiles of Covid-19 Impact on Informal Caregivers of Older Mexican Americans
Objectives: This manuscript is a descriptive exploratory study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for caregivers of very old Mexican Americans. Methods: Using data from Wave 10 of the Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiological Study of Elderly (2021), we examined the characteristics of caregivers of very old Mexican Americans by their perceived level of impact from the pandemic. We examined sociodemographic characteristics, COVID…
Twelve tips on creating and using custom GPTs to enhance health professions education
The custom GPT is the latest powerful feature added to ChatGPT. Non-programmers can create and share their own GPTs ("chat bots"), allowing Health Professions Educators to apply the capabilities of ChatGPT to create administrative assistants, online tutors, virtual patients, and more, to support their clinical and non-clinical teaching environments. To achieve this correctly, however, requires some skills, and this 12-Tips paper provides those: w…
Invariantism, contextualism, and the explanatory power of knowledge
According to the Epistemic Theory of Mind , knowledge is part of the best overall framework for explaining behavior at the psychological level. This theory, which has become increasingly popular in recent decades, has almost always been conjoined with an invariantist theory of “knows.” In this paper, I argue that this is a mistake: the Epistemic Theory of Mind is far more explanatorily powerful when conjoined with contextualism. I conclude that i…
Investigating feelings of imposterism in first‐year medical student narratives
Pedagogy and generative artificial intelligence
Healthcare educators (HPE) are challenged by rapid developments in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools. They need a standardized model to evaluate these new tools and to guide them in pedagogically-sound integration in the curriculum. PICRAT is an educational model designed specifically to help teachers meet this challenge. NotebookLM is a new multi-featured GenAI tool to help teachers and learners in education and research. Its newe…
Embracing the illusion of explanatory depth
Healthcare educators are exploring ways to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into the curriculum. At the same time, they are concerned about the negative impact on students' cognitive development. There is concern that the students will not learn to think and problem-solve by themselves and instead become dependent on LLMs to find answers. In addition, the students could start accepting the LLM generated responses at face value. The Illusion…
Twelve tips on applying AI tools in HPE scholarship using Boyer’s model
AI has changed the landscape of health professions education. With the hype now behind us, we find ourselves in the phase of reckoning, considering what's next; where do we start and how can educators use these powerful tools for daily teaching and learning. We recognize the great need for training to use AI meaningfully for education. Boyer's model of scholarship provides a pedagogical approach for teaching with AI and how to maximize these effo…
Psychology (18 obras) · Medicine (17 obras) · Computer Science (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Gerontology (9 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (8 obras) · Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (7 obras) · Demography (6 obras) · Epistemology (6 obras) · Medical education (6 obras)