A.I. in Medicine: A Deep Dive with Justin C. Key and Lakshmi Krishnan
October 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Author Justin C. Key (The Hospital at the End of the World) and Lakshmi Krishnan join Clarion West’s Deep Dives conversation series on A.I. in Medicine, discussing data privacy, innovation in treatments, and, the promises and the horrors of unregulated futures in healthcare tech foretold by science-fiction.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
Justin C. Key is a practicing psychiatrist and a speculative fiction writer. He is the author of the debut novel The Hospital at the End of the World and the story collection The World Wasn’t Ready for You. His stories have appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, Lightspeed, and on Tor.com. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.
Lakshmi Krishnan, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician and literary scholar at Georgetown University, where she is Founding Director of Medical Humanities. She is a 2026–27 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, where she is completing The Doctor and the Detective, the first book-length history of diagnosis and detective fiction, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press. A dual-trained clinician-scholar, she earned her MD from Johns Hopkins and her doctorate in English literature from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, with postgraduate training in internal medicine and the history of medicine at Duke and Johns Hopkins. Her work examines diagnosis and clinical reasoning—how doctors know, and how they think they know—including the diagnostic imagination in the age of artificial intelligence. She is a frequent contributor of cultural criticism and reviews to the leading medical journal The BMJ, where she writes on fiction, film, television, and the cultural life of medicine, and she publishes The Workup, a Substack on medicine and culture. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, as well as grants and awards from the Mellon Foundation, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Academy of Communication in Healthcare.
TICKETS
General Admission: Join us for the conversation starting at 7pm PT and the book signing to follow!
VIP: As a VIP ticketholder, you’ll add to your experience a VIP gift bag, priority seating and book signing, as well as access to the pre-event reception at 6pm featuring an intimate meet-and-greet with our speakers.
Virtual: Watch the conversation from anywhere and participate in the Q&A! Registration is required.
The Deep Dives conversation series is a fundraiser for Clarion West! Your ticket purchases support all of our programming, helping us continue to reach and serve bright new voices in speculative fiction.
About Deep Dives
Clarion West’s Deep Dives series places an author of speculative fiction in a moderated conversation with a scientist or other expert in subject matter relevant to the author’s work. The goal is to contextualize the fantastic in ways that relate to our shared reality, and help guide media literacy of speculative literature. The series itself is our fall fundraiser in support of Clarion West’s programming and each event includes a VIP reception, conversation, and book signing for the featured authors. The theme for 2026 is “Futures Less Dystopian.”
The Deep Dives conversation series is made possible in part by support from:
THE BRENEMAN JAECH FOUNDATION
THE SHERMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION
