August 20, 2025

The Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS has named Eric Rosenthal, MD, as the 2025 recipient of the Corcoran Family Award in recognition of his pioneering work using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to advance clinical care.

At Mass General Brigham, Dr. Rosenthal serves as medical director of the MGH Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit and program director of the NeuroAI Center, which he founded to accelerate the use of AI across neurologic and neurosurgical care. His research spans more than a decade of developing AI/ML tools to predict patient outcomes—from coma recovery to functional recovery after cardiac arrest—and to integrate multimodal data across institutions for more robust, scalable insights. As co-chair of the Bridge2AI Steering Committee and Contact PI for the AI/ML for Clinical Care (CHoRuS) data generation project, Dr. Rosenthal plays a key role in national efforts to make biomedical data more AI-ready and equitable.

The Corcoran Family Award, established by the Healey & AMG Center for ALS in memory of John M. Corcoran to support innovative ALS research, will help to fund his team’s next phase of work: developing AI/ML tools to enable earlier diagnosis of ALS. Speaking to the Healey & AMG Center about the award, Dr. Rosenthal said, “The number of treatments for ALS continues to grow. To help patients with ALS receive the greatest benefit from these treatments, we need to diagnose patients at the earliest stage possible. While we have previously worked with data from compressed periods of time in the hospital, the Corcoran Family Award allows our team to utilize the same tools for analyzing linked data of multiple modalities, or types, in the outpatient setting.”Dr. Rosenthal and collaborator Morteza Zabihi, PhD, will recruit a postdoctoral fellow in AI to build and analyze linked datasets that retrace patient pathways leading to ALS diagnosis—advancing both discovery and care through the power of data-driven science.

Read the full announcement on the Healey & AMG Center for ALS website.