AI in Health Conference 2024: Full Schedule

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Workshop | Unpacking Digital Twins in Oncology – Challenges and Perspectives

Monday September 9, 2024 1:00pm - 5:00pm CDT

Digital twins have undergone a widespread development in multiple areas of engineering and medicine. In recent years, increasing success of computational models to predict the development of cancer and its response to treatments have demanding increasing attention to the translation of state-of-the-art digital twin techniques into clinical cancer healthcare. The overall goal of this workshop is to engage discussion about current challenges on the development and implementation of clinically practical digital twins in oncology, as well as to appreciate comprehensive perspectives from multiple stakeholders in cancer healthcare.

Organizers:
Chengyue Wu, PhD, Department of Imaging Physics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Bissan Al-Lazikani, PhD, MBCS FRSB, Department of Genomic Medicine, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Heiko Enderling, PhD, FSMB, Department of Radiation Oncology, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Monday September 9, 2024 1:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Auditorium

Workshop

8:00am CDT

Check-in + Breakfast

Tuesday September 10, 2024 8:00am - 8:30am CDT

Exhibit Hall

Tuesday September 10, 2024 8:00am - 8:30am CDT
Exhibit Hall

Networking

8:30am CDT

Day 1 Welcome

Tuesday September 10, 2024 8:30am - 8:35am CDT

Auditorium

Tuesday September 10, 2024 8:30am - 8:35am CDT
Auditorium

Networking

8:35am CDT

Andrea Ramirez | Invited Speaker

Tuesday September 10, 2024 8:35am - 9:20am CDT

Auditorium

Speakers

Andrea Ramirez, MD, MS

Chief Data Officer, All of Us Research Program

Andrea Ramirez, M.D., M.S., is the chief data officer of the All of Us Research Program. In this role, she is centralizing data governance and analytics processes within the program. Andrea previously served as senior advisor to the chief executive officer at All of Us.Before joining... Read More →

Tuesday September 10, 2024 8:35am - 9:20am CDT
Auditorium

Main Session

9:20am CDT

Gil Alterovitz | AI Research and Development at VA

Tuesday September 10, 2024 9:20am - 10:05am CDT

Auditorium

Speakers

Gil Alterovitz, PhD

VHA Chief AI Officer, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Director, VA National Artificial Intelligence Institute

Dr. Gil Alterovitz is the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ VHA Chief AI Officer (VHA CAIO) and the Director of the VA National Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII). He has a PhD in electrical and biomedical engineering from MIT. Throughout his career, Dr. Alterovitz has... Read More →

Tuesday September 10, 2024 9:20am - 10:05am CDT
Auditorium

Main Session

10:05am CDT

Coffee Break

Tuesday September 10, 2024 10:05am - 10:30am CDT

Exhibit Hall

Tuesday September 10, 2024 10:05am - 10:30am CDT
Exhibit Hall

Networking

10:30am CDT

Hua Xu | Foundation Models

Tuesday September 10, 2024 10:30am - 11:10am CDT

Auditorium

Speakers

Hua Xu, PhD

Robert T. McCluskey Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Vice Chair for Research and Development, Assistant Dean for Biomedical Informatics, Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Hua Xu is a well-known researcher in clinical natural language processing (NLP). He has developed novel algorithms for important clinical NLP tasks such as entity recognition and relation extraction, which have been top ranked in over a dozen of international biomedical NLP challenges... Read More →

Tuesday September 10, 2024 10:30am - 11:10am CDT
Auditorium

Foundation Models

11:10am CDT

Speaker 2 | Foundation Models

Tuesday September 10, 2024 11:10am - 11:50am CDT

Auditorium

Tuesday September 10, 2024 11:10am - 11:50am CDT
Auditorium

Foundation Models

11:50am CDT

Lunch

Tuesday September 10, 2024 11:50am - 12:45pm CDT

Exhibit Hall

Tuesday September 10, 2024 11:50am - 12:45pm CDT
Exhibit Hall

Networking

12:45pm CDT

Chethan Pandarinath | AI in Neuroscience and Neuro-technology

Tuesday September 10, 2024 12:45pm - 1:25pm CDT

Auditorium

Speakers

Chethan Pandarinath, PhD

Assistant Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology

Tuesday September 10, 2024 12:45pm - 1:25pm CDT
Auditorium

AI in Neuroscience and Neuro-technology

12:45pm CDT

Technical Talks

Tuesday September 10, 2024 12:45pm - 2:00pm CDT

BRC Room 280

Tuesday September 10, 2024 12:45pm - 2:00pm CDT
BRC Room 280

Technical Talk

1:25pm CDT

Alexander Huth | AI in Neuroscience and Neurotechnology

Tuesday September 10, 2024 1:25pm - 2:05pm CDT

Auditorium

Speakers

Alexander Huth, PhD

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin

Alex Huth's research is focused on how the many different areas in the human brain work together to perform complex tasks such as understanding natural language. Alex uses and develops computational methods in Machine Learning and Bayesian Statistics, and obtain fMRI measures of brain... Read More →

Tuesday September 10, 2024 1:25pm - 2:05pm CDT
Auditorium

AI in Neuroscience and Neuro-technology

2:05pm CDT

Afternoon Break

Tuesday September 10, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm CDT

Exhibit Hall

Tuesday September 10, 2024 2:05pm - 2:30pm CDT
Exhibit Hall

Networking

2:30pm CDT

Ankit Patel | AI in Neuroscience and Neurotechnology

Tuesday September 10, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm CDT

Auditorium

Speakers

Ankit Patel, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine; Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

Ankit B. Patel is currently an Assistant Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine in the Dept. of Neuroscience, and at Rice University in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ankit is broadly interested in the intersection between machine learning and computational... Read More →

Tuesday September 10, 2024 2:30pm - 2:55pm CDT
Auditorium

AI in Neuroscience and Neuro-technology

2:30pm CDT

Technical Talks

Tuesday September 10, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT

BRC Room 280

Tuesday September 10, 2024 2:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
BRC Room 280

Technical Talk

2:55pm CDT

Anton Banta | AI in Neuroscience and Neurotechnology

Tuesday September 10, 2024 2:55pm - 3:20pm CDT

Auditorium

Speakers

Anton Banta, PhD

Biotechnology and Machine Learning Engineer, Neurosurgery and Neuroprosthetics, Houston Methodist

Tuesday September 10, 2024 2:55pm - 3:20pm CDT
Auditorium

AI in Neuroscience and Neuro-technology

3:45pm CDT

Sponsor Networking Reception

Tuesday September 10, 2024 3:45pm - 5:30pm CDT

Exhibit Hall

Tuesday September 10, 2024 3:45pm - 5:30pm CDT
Exhibit Hall

Networking

8:00am CDT

Check-in + Breakfast

Wednesday September 11, 2024 8:00am - 8:30am CDT

Exhibit Hall

Wednesday September 11, 2024 8:00am - 8:30am CDT
Exhibit Hall

Networking

8:30am CDT

Josiah Hester | Invited Speaker

Wednesday September 11, 2024 8:30am - 9:15am CDT

Auditorium

Speakers

Josiah Hester, PhD

Associate Professor of Interactive Computing and Computer Science, Co-Director of the Center for Advancing Responsible Computing (CARE), Associate Director of Community Engaged Research, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology

Josiah Hester holds the Allchin Chair and is Associate Professor of Interactive Computing and Computer Science at Georgia Tech. He leads the newly formed Center for Advancing Responsible Computing (CARE) at Georgia Tech’s College of Computing. Josiah was previously at Northwestern... Read More →

Wednesday September 11, 2024 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Auditorium

Main Session

9:15am CDT

Invited Speaker | AI in the Health Industry

Wednesday September 11, 2024 9:15am - 9:45am CDT

Auditorium

Wednesday September 11, 2024 9:15am - 9:45am CDT
Auditorium

AI in the Health Industry

9:45am CDT

Panel | AI in the Health Industry

Wednesday September 11, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am CDT

Auditorium

Moderators

Rafael Rosengarten, PhD

CEO and Co-Founder, Genialis

Speakers

Jim Colson, MSME, MSCS

Associate Vice President, Digital Health, Texas A&M Health

Jim Colson serves as associate vice president of digital health at Texas A&M Health. As part of this role, Colson is responsible for identifying, implementing and deploying state-of-the-art digital health platforms that help the organization to realize the unbound opportunities and... Read More →

Sarma Velamuri, MD

CEO & Co-Founder, Luminare

Dr. Velamuri is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician, residency at Baylor College of Medicine, before working as a hospitalist at CHI-St. Luke’s. He has served on process improvement, health informatics and patient safety committees at large hospitals in and around the... Read More →

Wednesday September 11, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am CDT
Auditorium

AI in the Health Industry

10:30am CDT

Coffee Break

Wednesday September 11, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am CDT

Exhibit Hall

Wednesday September 11, 2024 10:30am - 11:00am CDT
Exhibit Hall

Networking

11:00am CDT

Technical Talks

Wednesday September 11, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT

Auditorium

Wednesday September 11, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Auditorium

Technical Talk

11:00am CDT

Technical Talks

Wednesday September 11, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT

Room 280

Wednesday September 11, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Room 280

Technical Talk

12:00pm CDT

Lunch

Wednesday September 11, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT

Exhibit Hall

Wednesday September 11, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm CDT
Exhibit Hall

Networking

1:00pm CDT

Abria Magee | Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT): Texas’ Unique Funding

Wednesday September 11, 2024 1:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

Auditorium

Speakers

Abria Magee, PhD

Sr. Program Manager for Product Development Research, Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT)

Dr. Abria Magee is the Sr. Program Manager for Product Development Research at the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). Dr. Magee manages a portfolio of over 50 oncology companies that have been awarded over $320 million in CPRIT funding. She is responsible for... Read More →

Wednesday September 11, 2024 1:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
Auditorium

Main Session

1:30pm CDT

Vicky Yao | Invited Speaker

Wednesday September 11, 2024 1:30pm - 2:00pm CDT

Auditorium

Speakers

Vicky Yao, PhD

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Rice University

Wednesday September 11, 2024 1:30pm - 2:00pm CDT
Auditorium

Main Session

2:00pm CDT

LLM Applications

Wednesday September 11, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm CDT

LLMs

2:30pm CDT

LLM Applications

Wednesday September 11, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm CDT

LLMs

3:00pm CDT

Poster Presentation Reception

Wednesday September 11, 2024 3:00pm - 5:00pm CDT

Networking

Wednesday September 11, 2024 3:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Networking

Networking

9:00am CDT

Workshop | NVIDIA Omniverse, Digital Twins, and Intro to LLMs

Thursday September 12, 2024 9:00am - 11:00am CDT

BRC Room 280

PART 1: NVIDIA Omniverse and Digital Twins – Building a Smart Hospital
Speaker: Robert Rios, Developer, Mark III Systems; Principal, Mark III Innovation
In this workshop, Mark III and NVIDIA will walk through the detailed step-by-step process of building a digital twin of rooms and sections of a smart hospital using NVIDIA’s Omniverse platform. In addition to 3D modeling with Omniverse and Omniverse-compatible apps like Blender, Maya, and USD Composer, this session will also touch on how to build connectors in Omniverse to pipe in data and telemetry, in addition to how to think about constructing teams to enable your institution to build digital twins, whether it be for smart hospitals or for research, clinical, or operational purposes.

PART 2: Intro to Large Language Models: LLM Tutorial and Disease Diagnosis LLM Lab
Speaker: Michaela Buchanan, Data Scientist, Mark III Systems
In this workshop we start by discussing what a large language model (LLM) is and some of the strengths and weaknesses of these models, looking at a handful of models and approaches. We cover the difference between pretraining and finetuning. Input processing is discussed by showing the steps of taking an input string and tokenizing it into input ids. QLoRa is presented as a means of greatly reducing computational requirements for LLM inference and finetuning. The concepts portion of the session concludes by discussing Hugging Face and their transformers library. The workshop starts with performing inference using the Hugging Face transformers library and the Falcon-7B-Instruct model. We then move to finetuning Falcon-7B-Instruct using the MedText dataset, where the goal is to take a prompt which describes symptoms of a medical issue and generate a diagnosis of the problem as well as steps to take to treat it.

Speakers

Robert Rios

Developer, Mark III Systems; Principal, Mark III Innovation

Michaela Buchanan

Data Scientist, Mark III Systems

Thursday September 12, 2024 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
BRC Room 280

Workshop

9:00am CDT

Workshop | Patient Engagement and Equity in Health AI

Thursday September 12, 2024 9:00am - 11:30am CDT

Auditorium

Moderators

Rodrigo Ferreira, PhD

Assistant Teaching Professor of Computer Science, Rice University

Rodrigo Ferreira is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Computer Science at Rice University, where he is responsible for the ethics in computer science curriculum. In this role, Rodrigo teaches courses on the ethics of computing, data science, and artificial intelligence, and develops... Read More →

Speakers

Grace Wickerson, MS

Health Equity Policy Manager, Federation of American Scientists

Grace Wickerson is the Health Equity Policy Manager at the Federation of American Scientists. They work on embedding equity in health policies, with an eye towards leveraging data and technology as key tools for accelerating change. They are committed to ensuring technologies are... Read More →

Kirsten Ostherr, PhD

Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English, Director of Medical Humanities Research Institute, Rice University

Kirsten Ostherr, PhD, MPH is the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English and founding Director of the new Medical Humanities Research Institute, one of the only research institutes in the world that is solely dedicated to advancing translational research on human experiences of he... Read More →

Fred Oswald

Professor of Psychological Sciences, Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Rice University

Fred Oswald is a Professor at Rice University. His research focuses on psychological tests (e.g., knowledge, motivation, interest) implemented in educational, employment, and military settings. He has spent over 25 years developing, statistically refining, and evaluating these tests... Read More →

Thursday September 12, 2024 9:00am - 11:30am CDT
Auditorium

Workshop