The State of AI in Precision Health: Speaker Preview

AI is changing the medical landscape. Clinicians, lab technicians, educators, executives, and other industry professionals are increasingly adopting AI tools to accelerate drug discovery, predict disease outbreaks, improve diagnoses, and deliver care to the home. But as health and medicine become computational disciplines, what new challenges will emerge?

Next week, on Oct. 10, we will host a can’t-miss AI conference, The State of AI in Precision Health. Experts from leading health organizations, biotech startups, medical institutions, and universities will convene in Boston and online to discuss the current state and potential of AI in precision health.

Here, we are highlighting the brilliant speakers and panelists who will participate in this one-of-a-kind event, and help to lift the lid on the state of AI in health, medicine, and life sciences.

AI & Medical Care: Keeping Experts in the Loop

• Larry Brilliant, renowned epidemiologist and technologist who played a pivotal role in eradicating smallpox with the World Health Organization, will join Usama Fayyad, executive director of the Institute for Experiential AI, in a fireside chat about the convergence of AI and medicine. As the inaugural executive director of Google.org and now as CEO of Evity.AI, Brilliant continues to drive innovation in AI and healthcare.

AI for Drug Development and Discovery

Learn how AI is being leveraged for drug discovery and its impact on research, development, and clinical trials. Highlights include a panel and Q&A moderated by Laurent Audoly, senior advisor AI drug discovery & development at the Institute for Experiential AI:

• Crystal Brown, co-founder and CEO of CircNova
• Marinka Zitnik, assistant professor, department of biomedical informatics, Harvard Medical School
• Jeanne Latourelle, senior vice president, precision medicine, Aitia

Additional talks on the latest advances in AI, life science, and the future of both from:

• Jason Springs, co-founder and CEO, Endpoint Health
• Sam Scarpino, director of AI + Life Science, Institute for Experiential AI
• Laurent Audoly, senior advisor AI drug discovery & development, Institute for Experiential AI

AI for Organizational Success

Explore how leading healthcare organizations are implementing AI for operational and strategic success in a panel moderated by Eugene Tunik, director of AI + Health at the Institute for Experiential AI. Participants include:

• John Halamka, Dwight and Dian Diercks President, Mayo Clinic Platform
• Rasu B. Shrestha, chief innovation and commercialization officer, Advocate Health
• Melissa Landon, technology and business strategist, AI in life sciences, formerly Cyclica

AI for Enabling Aging and Medicine in-Place

Learn about AI’s role in home-based healthcare and patient monitoring in a panel moderated by Justin Manjourides, associate professor of public health and health sciences at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences. Participants include:

• David Levine, associate professor and clinical director, Mass General Brigham
• Hoda Sayed-Friel, former executive vice president, MEDITECH
• Colleen Hole, innovation strategic advisor, Atrium Health/Advocate Health

More talks on AI and home care from:

• John Brownstein, senior vice president and chief innovation officer, Boston Children’s Hospital
• Patricia Geli, co-founder, managing director, chief operating officer, C10 Labs

AI for Diagnosis, Prediction, Triage, and Therapy Selection

Discover AI’s role in improving diagnostics and patient care with talks from:

• Jens Rueter, chief medical officer, medical director, The Jackson Laboratory, Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative
• Isaac Kohane, professor & chair, department of biomedical informatics, Harvard Medical School
• Timothy Ruchti, director algorithms, Nihon Kohden Digital Health Solutions LLC

Other speakers from Northeastern University include:

• Raimond Winslow, director of life science and medical research, Roux Institute
• Cansu Canca, director of Responsible AI Practice, Institute for Experiential AI 
• Jennifer Dy, director of AI faculty, Institute for Experiential AI 
• Predrag Radivojac, professor of computer science and associate dean of research, Khoury College of Computer Science
• Aarti Sathyanarayana, assistant professor in health science and computer science, Bouvé College of Health Sciences

We hope you’ll join experts from Harvard Med, Mayo Clinic, Atrium, Brigham and Women’s, MEDITECH, Evity.AI, Boston Children’s Hospital, The Jackson Laboratory, and more for the chance to learn about and participant in the future of AI in health and life science. View the full agenda and list of participants here, and register for online or in-person attendance here.