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Chris Shaltry, Ph.D.

Education, Technology
and Innovation Specialist
College of Human Medicine
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Michigan State University

Empowering Education Through Innovation

>20

K-20

Consulting/Teaching

Years of Experience

✨ AI integration

💻 EducationAL techNOLOGY

💡 instructional innovation

👥 Faculty development

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Expertise

Much of my work is at the intersection of education, academic innovation, and generative AI as an "AI translator" of sorts, helping institutions turn rapidly expanding AI capabilities into usable, trustworthy, high-value outcomes.

Generative AI has shifted many domains (e.g., coding, curriculum design, scholarly writing, and ideation) from scarcity to abundance: draft content can now be produced at an extraordinary scale by non-experts. The new bottleneck is no longer “creating” work but rather constraining, evaluating, and advancing it.

My expertise is building and teaching practical strategies for limiting and shaping AI outputs, then vetting, filtering, and routing them through human and organizational workflows so quality improves rather than collapses under volume. I help teams develop an “algorithmic” discipline so they can focus attention on what matters, reduce noise, and move promising drafts toward implementation.

Without clear methods for triage and quality assurance, institutions risk overwhelming experts, diluting good ideas within low-quality output, and slowing adoption of genuinely valuable innovations - expanding access to creation while protecting standards, decision-making, and downstream execution.

ClinicalMind AI

Made available through my research collaboration with Stanford, ClinicalMind AI helps MSU medical students strengthen their clinical communication skills using conversational AI.

EMR Simulator

The EMR Simulator (PPS) is an interactive training tool I'm developing to help students practice navigating EMRs and responding to patient portal messages.

Virtual Lab
Projects & Experiments

AAMC Webinar Series: AI Skill Building for Medical Educators

  • Session 3: Evaluating AI Outputs: Ensuring Accuracy and Relevance
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  • Session 6: Developing AI-Enhanced Curricula
    View the Recording
    | Access Slides [links coming soon]

MSU Educator Developers Network:

  • Old Habits, New Tools: Encouraging Engaged Learning with AI
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AI for Educators Series

  • From Overwhelmed to Empowered: Practical Advice for Navigating AI in Higher Ed
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  • Innovation Pathways: AI for Educators Workshop
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MSU CHM Academy Retreat 2025

MSU COM

  • AI in Learning Series: Study Strategies with NotebookLM
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Invited Talks on AI

AACOM 2025 - Automating Content Classification in Medical Literature for Accreditation with AI

AI Conference Presentations