Andrew S. Lea

Andrew Lea is a physician-historian at the University of Rochester. He earned his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his doctorate in History of Science and Medicine from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. His research explores the history of artificial intelligence, communications media, and information technology in medicine and has appeared in leading historical and medical journals, including Isis and the New England Journal of Medicine. His first book Digitizing Diagnosis: Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth-Century America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023) examines early efforts to computerize medical diagnosis and decision-making. He lives in Boston with his partner (also named Andrew) and their greyhound (not named Andrew).