Dr Gurpreet Dhaliwal MD is a clinician-educator and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He cares for patients and teaches medical students and residents in the emergency department, inpatient wards and outpatient clinic at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, where he directs the internal medicine clerkship.
An internationally recognised expert in diagnostic reasoning, Dr Dhaliwal studies how physicians think – how they make diagnoses, develop expertise, and work with technology to improve clinical decision-making. In 2025, he became the first physician to compete head-to-head against CaBOT – an AI system trained on the complete 100-year archive of The New England Journal of Medicine Case Records – in a live diagnostic challenge.
His work has been featured in The New York Times (‘Could a Computer Outthink This Doctor?’) and The Atlantic (‘The Making of the Diagnostic Mind’), and from 2013–2018 he wrote for The Wall Street Journal's The Experts Health Care Report.
Dr Dhaliwal is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators and the UCSF Department of Medicine Council of Master Clinicians. He has published more than 180 articles, received numerous teaching awards – including the 2015 national Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award and the 2019 UCSF's Osler Distinguished Teacher Award – and has served as a visiting professor at more than 50 universities in the United States and around the world. He has also appeared on Freakonomics M.D., The Curbsiders, The Wall Street Journal Report and many other medical podcasts.
Associate Professor Jennifer Neil is Head of Curriculum of the Monash School of Medicine. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2003 with honours and went on to join the Emergency Medicine training program, completing her primary examinations before moving into general practice.
She commenced work as an educator in the Department of General Practice in early 2015, completing a Masters in Clinical Education. She became Curriculum and Assessment Lead for the General Practice program and gained an interest in medical education research in which she has supervised both students and staff members.
In addition to this, she has expertise in family violence and trauma and violence informed care. She has trained hundreds of primary care health professionals, both throughout Australia and Internationally in this area. She has both national and international reach being the co-chair of WONCA's (World Family Doctor Organisation) Special Interest Group on Family Violence and Deputy Chair of the RACCGP Specific Interest Group on Abuse and Violence in Families. She has published in this area as well as co-authored three chapters in the RACGP guideline on abuse and violence.
She is currently completing a PhD at the University of Melbourne on GPs who are survivors of family violence and their professional experiences. She continues to work as a GP and sees a full range of GP presentations but especially has interests in mental health, supporting survivors of family violence and chronic disease management.
Siobhan Hardiman is a Lecturer (Education-focused) in the School of Primary and Allied Health Care (Social Work), with a practice background of almost twenty years working with children, adolescents and families, typically regarding intimate partner violence and family violence.
Siobhan has been awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in Education from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and was recently featured by the University as a part of the 'teachers that transform' campaign.
Siobhan is the unit coordinator of SWM5127 Family violence and social work practice, and has been responsible for developing curriculum for family violence practice response for the Department of Social Work, the School of Psychological Sciences, the Department of Paramedicine and the Department of Nursing and Midwifery at Monash University.