Piet C. De Groen MD

Dr. de Groen is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, at the University of Minnesota, the emeritus staff at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, adjunct professor at University of Arizona and former Program Director of the Mayo Clinic/IBM Computational Biology Collaboration. He is an NIH-funded clinical investigator and international expert in medical informatics, primary liver cancers and colonoscopy.

His endoscopic research is focused on measuring what happens during colonoscopy. Together with collaborators at Iowa State University and the University of North Texas he has created a first-of-a-kind new software system that automatically captures and analyzes “inside-the-patient” video information of medical procedures performed via endoscopy.