Bio


Matthew S Alkaitis MD, PhD is is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital medicine and Stanford School of Medicine. He received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Oxford, in collaboration the National Institutes of Health as part of the NIH’s graduate partnership program. He received his MD from Harvard Medical school and completed his residency in internal medicine at Stanford. Dr. Alkaitis’ research interests span basic biochemistry, clinical informatics, natural language processing, genetics of hematologic malignancies and methods of cell-free DNA detection. His primary medical education interest is expanding accessibility of modern computational and bioinformatics techniques for clinical research.

Clinical Focus


  • Internal Medicine

Academic Appointments


  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine

Professional Education


  • Residency: Stanford University Internal Medicine Residency (2023) CA
  • Medical Education: Harvard Medical School (2020) MA

All Publications


  • Development of Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) for Molecular Measurable Residual Disease (MRD) in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Gunaratne, R., Zhou, C., Tai, J. W., Schwede, M., Tanaka, K., Alkaitis, M., Yin, R., Sworder, B. J., Mannis, G., Majeti, R., Khodadoust, M. S., Kurtz, D. M., Zhang, T. Y. AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY. 2023
  • Comparison of History of Present Illness Summaries Generated by a Chatbot and Senior Internal Medicine Residents. JAMA internal medicine Nayak, A., Alkaitis, M. S., Nayak, K., Nikolov, M., Weinfurt, K. P., Schulman, K. 2023

    View details for DOI 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.2561

    View details for PubMedID 37459091