Charlotte Blease
Associate Professor of Health Informatics, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden
Charlotte Blease PhD is a philosopher and associate professor of health informatics at Uppsala University, Sweden, and research affiliate at the Division of Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US. Her work explores the ethics of artificial intelligence in healthcare, patient-clinician communication and the psychology of health encounters. She is the author of Dr Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us – and How AI Could Save Lives (2025).
Written by Charlotte Blease

essayMedicine
Are doctors replaceable?
Medical error kills hundreds of thousands yearly. If AI is sophisticated enough to help, doctors must not stand in the way
Charlotte Blease

essayIllness and disease
Empowering patient research
For far too long, medicine has ignored the valuable insights that patients have into their own diseases. It is time to listen
Charlotte Blease & Joanne Hunt