About The Data Rounds
The Data Rounds is an education and leadership platform created to help women physicians build confidence, fluency, and real-world skills in data science, AI, and digital health—without needing a technical background or a computer science degree.
We believe the future of medicine will be shaped by clinicians who understand data and technology through a patient-centered lens. Women physicians bring empathy, equity awareness, and clinical insight that healthcare desperately needs in the era of artificial intelligence. The Data Rounds exists to make sure those voices lead—not follow—in digital healthcare innovation.
Our Mission
To empower women physicians with the knowledge, skills, and support they need to:
- Speak the language of data with confidence
- Collaborate effectively with data scientists and digital health teams
- Evaluate AI tools for safety, ethics, equity, and clinical relevance
- Design, lead, or launch their own AI or digital health projects
- Become transformational leaders and innovators in modern healthcare
What We Teach
We break down complex topics into physician-friendly, clinically meaningful lessons:
✓ Data fluency and analytics
✓ AI and machine learning explained with medical parallels
✓ Structured vs. unstructured data (EMRs, imaging, sensor data)
✓ Bias, fairness, and ethical oversight in AI
✓ Real clinical use cases—from sepsis alerts to imaging AI
✓ How to design your first digital health or AI project
✓ Leadership pathways in health tech and innovation
Everything is practical, applied, and grounded in real-world healthcare—not theory you’ll never use.
Why Women Physicians?
Because healthcare AI needs leaders who understand:
- Patient-centered care
- Health disparities and equity
- How technology impacts those who are already underserved
- How to build trust with patients and communities
- How to ensure AI serves medicine—not replaces the human connection
Women clinicians are already natural data interpreters—reading stories, trends, patterns, labs. We help translate that skill into digital health leadership.
How We Deliver
- Weekly educational YouTube episodes
- Downloadable toolkits, glossaries, and case studies
- Short courses and live workshops
- Community events and peer mentorship
- Confidence-building resources for overcoming “tech imposter syndrome”
Whether you're curious, skeptical, or ready to build something big, The Data Rounds is your starting point.
About the founder, Sidrah Laldin
Sidrah Laldin is a resident physician at the University of Manitoba and the founder of The Data Rounds, a medical education platform created to help early-career women physicians build confidence and skills in healthcare artificial intelligence and data science. With a rich interdisciplinary background spanning medicine, data science, computer science, and digital media, Sidrah brings a uniquely blended clinical and technical lens to digital health education.
Sidrah has conducted AI-focused research at McGill University, including developing deep learning models to analyze echocardiographic videos—work recognized nationwide as a top trainee project in AI and health. She also led user-centered studies on AI adoption in primary care for cardiovascular disease prevention, giving her insight into how clinicians interact with digital tools.
Her academic training includes an MDCM from McGill and a current Master’s in Data Science for Health and Social Care from the University of Edinburgh. Early in her career, she worked as a web developer, IT manager, and project manager in health-focused organizations, giving her hands-on experience in building digital tools and leading technical teams.
Sidrah’s mission with The Data Rounds is to ensure women physicians are empowered to shape the future of digital healthcare—not just adapt to it.