Dietmar Frey is a board-certified neurosurgeon and founding director of CLAIM - the Charité Lab for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Funded by federal and European grants he has built a strong interdisciplinary team of physicians, ML engineers and computer scientists. CLAIM is involved in many activities across the medical spectrum combining data science, machine and deep learning and medical decision-making. Dietmar Frey was coordinator of several Horizon Europe projects, among them VALIDATE to further develop, test, and validate a CDSS for acute stroke treatment.