Dr Dominic Pimenta March Seminar Series
March 10, 2026
We are pleased to announce that Dr Dominic Pimenta, Chief Executive Officer at Tortus AI, will deliver his talk “Evaluating clinical AI in real-world deployments to drive national adoption"
as part of our Seminar Series.
Abstract: TORTUS has been at the forefront of the delivery of AVT in trials across London and creating the data to implement in the ten-year plan, as well as publishing the LLM clinical ontology framework in Nature Digital Medicine. As we move from proving the use case today to developing the AI systems of tomorrow, the session will talk about the state of the art in AI evaluation in healthcare.
Seminar Series Event: “Evaluating clinical AI in real-world deployments to drive national adoption"
Date and Time:
Thursday 26 March February 2026, 15:00 – 16.00 hrs (GMT)
Location: G3, Guy's New Hunts House, Guy's Campus
Attendance:
Mandatory for all DRIVE-Health students; a calendar invitation has already been sent.
Registration:
Alumni and wider King's College London research community all welcome - please email drive-health-cdt@kcl.ac.uk
to let us know if you would like to attend.
Biography
Dr Dom Pimenta, CEO of Tortus AI, graduated with triple distinction from UCL MBBS in 2012. After practicing for ten years in the NHS as a cardiologist, Dr Pimenta became a pharmaceutical physician via a stint in COVID ICU. During this time, Dr Pimenta ran large-scale digital health trials and published in the field of applied AI in healthcare. Dr Pimenta became frustrated by the increasing power of clinical AI models in academia, but the paucity of application in the real world. Deciding to make this his career mission, Dr Pimenta was accepted to Europe's best accelerator programme, Entrepreneur First, and met his co-founder Christopher Tan, an up-and-coming machine learning scientist. Together, they founded TORTUS, building the world's first AI agent for healthcare, a true co-pilot that can not only take over all software tasks from physicians, but use other forms of AI as well. Their vision is to bring clinical AI tools into the hands of every physician, using any software system, anywhere. Dr Pimenta was previously the founding CEO and later chair of The Healthcare Workers' Foundation, a charity that raised £3.2m to support healthcare workers during the 2020 COVID pandemic. Dr Pimenta has received multiple awards for his work, including the Young Investigator Award at the European Society of Preventative Cardiology and the Royal Academy of Engineers President's Award for Services to the Pandemic.
When not founding companies and charities, Dr Pimenta is a very busy husband and father of three, as well as the owner of a particularly famous cat.
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