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(Snacks and Beverages)
Giuseppe N. Colasurdo, MD
President
Alkek-Williams Distinguished Chair
H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professor in the Medical Sciences
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
CEO, UT Physicians
Medical AI – A Texas Perspective
Jiajie Zhang, PhD
Dean
Glassell Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Informatics Excellence
School of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Session Chair:
Michael Blackburn, PhD
Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
William S. Kilroy, Sr. Distinguished University Chair in Pulmonary Disease
Dean, MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Keynote: The State of AI and Its Implications for Medicine
Peter Szolovits, PhD, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor of Health Sciences and Technology,
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
Director of Clinical Decision Making Research Group,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Member, National Academy of Medicine
Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
(20 min each presentation, 15 min with 5 min Q&A)
Session Chair:
Robert Murphy, MD
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Applied Informatics
School of Biomedical Informatics
Associate Professor
Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Practicing Deep Learning-based Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Healthcare
Hua Xu, PhD
Professor
Director, Center for Computational Biomedicine
School of Biomedical Informatics
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Machine Learning and Game Theory for the Prediction of Adverse Cardiovascular Events
Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, PhD
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of Computer Science
Founder and Director, Computational Biomedicine Laboratory
University of Houston
AI for Clinical Phenotyping, Prediction and Privacy Protection
Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD
Associate Professor
Dr. Doris L. Ross Professor
Director, Center for Secure Artificial Intelligence For hEalthcare (SAFE)
School of Biomedical Informatics
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
(20 min each presentation, 15 min with 5 min Q&A)
Session Chair:
Todd Johnson, PhD
Professor
School of Biomedical Informatics
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Using AI to Reduce Overdiagnosis, Overtreatment, and Misdiagnosis
Stephen T. Wong, PhD, PE
John S. Dunn, Sr. Presidential Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Engineering
Founding Chair, Systems Medicine and Bioengineering
Founding Director, Center for Modeling Cancer Development
Associate Director, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Cores, Houston Methodist Cancer Center
Founding Director, The Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Center for BRAIN (Bioinformatics Research and Imaging in the Neurosciences)
Chief, Medical Physics
Houston Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College
Professor of Radiology, Neurosciences, Pathology, and Laboratory Medicine
Cornell University
Learning Brain Imaging Patterns from Temporal and Spatial Differences
Luca Giancardo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Core Faculty, Center for Precision Health
School of Biomedical Informatics
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Deep Learning in Radiation Oncology
Steve Jiang, PhD
Professor
Barbara Crittendon Professor in Cancer Research
Vice Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology
Director, Division of Medical Physics and Engineering
Director, MAIA (Medical Artificial Intelligence Automation) Laboratory
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
The UT System’s Vision for Medical AI
John M. Zerwas, MD
Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs
The University of Texas System
(Former Texas State Representative and Chair of House Appropriations Committee)
Medical AI Platform in the Cloud
Lisa McFerrin, PhD
Bioinformatician
Amazon Web Services
Session Chair:
Kent Kubie
Nutanix
(Formerly, with IBM)
Keynote: AI, Analytics, and Data in Healthcare
Tina Moen, PharmD
Senior Deputy Chief Health Officer & Chief Pharmacy Officer
IBM Watson Health
Panel Moderator:
Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE
Professor, Biomedical Informatics
Associate Dean for Research
Reynolds and Reynolds Professor in Clinical Informatics
School of Biomedical Informatics
Professor, Internal Medicine
McGovern Medical School
Panelists:
John C. Frenzel, MD, MS
Clinical Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Director, The Learning Health System
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Bela Patel, MD, DABSM, FCCP, CMQ
Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Medicine
Graham Distinguished University Chair
Vice Dean Healthcare Quality
Division Director of Critical Care Medicine
McGovern Medical School
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Vice Chair of Medicine, Regional Chief Medical Officer, and Executive Medical Director of Critical Care
Memorial Hermann Hospital, Texas Medical Center Campus
Sean Savitz, MD
Professor
Frank M. Yatsu, MD Chair in Neurology
Director, UTHealth Institute for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease
McGovern Medical School
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Hardeep Singh, MD, MPH
Chief, Health Policy, Quality and Informatics Program
Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt)
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Director, Houston DISCovery (Diagnosis Improvement Safety Center)
William Tierney, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Population Health
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Oncology
Dell Medical School
Professor, Steve Hicks School of Social Work
University of Texas at Austin
Randall Urban, MD
Professor
Vice President and Chief Research Officer
Vice Dean Clinical Research, School of Medicine
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
(20 min each presentation, 15 min with 5 min Q&A)
Session Chair:
GQ Zhang, MS, PhD
Professor
Department of Neurology - McGovern Medical School, School of Public Health, and School of Biomedical Informatics
Vice President and Chief Data Scientist
Co-Director, Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Cerner’s AI Platform
Jacob Geers
Product Owner, Cerner Intelligence
Cerner Corporation
AI for Health at Google
Dale Markowitz
Software Engineer
Google Cloud
AI for Clinical NLP at Melax
Frank Manion, PhD
VP for Innovation
Melax Technologies, Inc.
Panel Moderator:
Carl V. Vartian MD, MS, FACP, FIDSA
Diplomat, Clinical Informatics, ABPM
Chief Medical Officer (CMO)
HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake and Mainland
Panelists:
Babatope Fatuyi
Chief Medical Information Officer
UT Physicians
Amanda Hammel
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Memorial Hermann Health System
David Jaffray, PhD
Senior VP & Chief Technology and Digital Officer
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ashok Kurian
Director, Data & Analytics
Texas Children’s Hospital
Karen C. Tseng, JD
Senior VP for Population Health Transformation
Harris Health System
Non-Resident Fellow in Health Policy
Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy
Amar Yousif, MBA
Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
(20 min each presentation, 15 min with 5 min Q&A)
Session Chair:
Cui Tao, PhD
Professor
School of Biomedical Informatics
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
(Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers [PECASE] Awardee)
Meta-Machine Learning for Medicine
Chris Jermaine, PhD
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
Interpretable Machine Learning and Fairness in AI
Xia “Ben” Hu, PhD
Assistant Professor and Lynn '84 and Bill Crane '83 Faculty Fellow
Director, DATA Lab
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Texas A&M University
Extreme, Large Scale Deep Learning for AI Applications
Anshumali Shrivastava, PhD
Assistant Professor
Departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistics
Rice University
(15 min each presentation, 10 min with 5 min Q&A)
Session Chair:
Ananth Annapragada, PhD
Professor of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine
Director of Basic Research, Edward B. Singleton Department of Radiology
Texas Children’s Hospital
The Investment Landscape for Health IT and Medical AI
Christopher McCord
Managing Director
Healthcare Growth Partners
The AI Landscape in Health
Angela Wilkins, PhD
Co-CEO and CTO
Mercury Data Science
Chief Scientist, Mercury Fund
Artificial Intelligence in Business
Paul A. Pavlou, PhD
Dean
Cullen Distinguished Chair Professor
C.T. Bauer College of Business
University of Houston
Startups in Medical AI and Digital Health
Emily Reiser, PhD
Senior Manager, Innovation Community Engagement
Texas Medical Center Innovation
Jiajie Zhang, PhD
Dean
Glassell Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Informatics Excellence
School of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston