Third Emory AI for Health Symposium

Thank you for joining us in 2025 for the Third Emory AI for Health Symposium.

We look forward to announcing the 2026 Symposium soon.

8:00 a.m. Registration

8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks

• Anant Madabhushi – Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and Executive Director of Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute, Emory University
• Joon Lee – CEO, Emory Healthcare, Executive Vice President of Health Affairs, Emory University, Vice Chair, Emory Healthcare Board of Directors
• Sandra Wong - Dean, Emory University School of Medicine

9:00 - 10:10 a.m. Session 1 - Real-Time Clinical AI

Presenters:

• Mark Mai – Pediatric Intensivist, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
• Temiloluwa Prioleau - Department of Computer Science, Emory University
• Amit Shah - Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health and Department of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine

Moderators:

• Evan Orenstein - Chief Medical Information Officer, Vice President of Data & Analytics, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
• Sundaresh Ram - Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University

10:10 - 10:20 a.m. Coffee Break

10:20 - 11:00 a.m. Panel Discussion 1 - Industry Interactions: Lessons for Successful Translation

Panelists:

• Laxmi Prasad Dasi – Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University
• Trishan Arul - CEO, Picture Health
• Anirvan Archarya – Head of Business Consulting and Healthcare Domain Solutions, Innova Solutions

Moderator:

• Justin Burns - Vice President of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Georgia Research Alliance

11:00 - Noon - Keynote Speaker

• Vivek Natarajan - Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Noon - 12:45 p.m. Lunch 

12:45 - 1:55 p.m. Session 2 - Scribes and Clinical Interaction with AI

Speakers:

• Cassie S. Mitchell - Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University
• Reema H. Dbouk – Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
• Hyunjung Stella Shin - Pediatric Nephrology, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Moderators:

• Joyce Ho – Emory Global Diabetes Research Center, Emory University
• Abeed Sarker - Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University

2:00 - 2:45 p.m. Panel Discussion 2 - How Is Medical Education Changing Due to AI?

Panelists:

• Jinjie Zheng – Department of Medical Education, Morehouse School of Medicine
  
• Pamela Vohra-Khullar – Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

Moderator:

• Farzad Fereidouni - Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine

2:45 - 3:00 p.m. Coffee Break

3:00 - 3:20 p.m. Lightning Presentations

Presenters:

• Germán Corredor Prada - Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University
• Mohammadhadi Khorrami – Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University
• Bhakti Baheti - Department of Radiology Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
• Karthik Menon - School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech

3:20 - 4:30 p.m. Session 3 - Translational AI

Speakers:

• Jeffery Talbert - Department Chair in AI and Health, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
• Selvi Ramalingam - Consultant, Morningside Center for Innovative and Affordable Medicine, Emory University
• Abdoul Aziz Sosseh - Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Emory University and Emory Healthcare

Moderators:

• Ravi Parikh - Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
• Madhusmita Behera - Chief Informatics Officer and Associate Director of Data Sciences and Informatics, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University

8:30 - 9:40 a.m. Session 4: Pediatrics and AI

Speakers:

• Tobey MacDonald - Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
• Lauren Steimle - School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech
  
• Naveen Mathu -  Pediatric Hospitalist, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Moderators:

• Yun Wang - Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University
• Karthik Reddy, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, and Department of Radiology, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

9:45 - 10:30 a.m. Fireside Chat

Panelists:

• Nabile Safdar - Chief AI Officer, Emory Healthcare, and Vice Chair for Imaging Informatics, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
• Jeremy Meller - Chief Information Officer, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Moderators:

• Anant Madabhushi - Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering of Georgia Tech and Emory, and Executive Director, Emory Empathetic Ai for Health Institute, Emory University

10:30 -10:45 a.m. Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:45 a.m. Keynote Speaker

• Paul M. Thompson - Director, University of Southern California Imaging Genetics Center, and Director, ENIGMA Center for Worldwide Medicine, Imaging & Genomics

11:50 - 1:00 p.m. Session 5: Cutting-Edge Advances in AI

Speakers:

• Vince Calhoun - Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics, Georgia State University
• Costas D. Arvanitis - Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory
• Liang Zhao - Department of Computer Science, Emory University

Moderators:

• Drew Williamson – Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
• Ahmet Coskun - Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering of Georgia Tech and Emory

1:00 - 1:15 p.m. Closing Remarks