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UAB Innovation Institute and Center for Healthcare Management and Leadership host A Primer for AI in Healthcare event for professionalsOct 31, 2024Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation (Innovation Institute) leadership regularly takes part in various events regarding artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and health care, offering their expertise and professional insight. This fall, three of the institute’s leaders participated in a one-day program titled “A Primer for AI in Healthcare,” co-offered by the UAB School of Health Profession’s Department of Health Services Administration Center for Healthcare Management & Leadership.
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Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Grand Rounds: How an Innovation System Uncovered Breakthrough Solutions for CAUTI and AKIOct 16, 2024The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation hosted a Grand Rounds presentation titled "How an Innovation System Uncovered Breakthrough Solutions for CAUTI and AKI" with speaker Todd Dunn, an experienced transformation and innovation executive, on Tuesday, Oct 3.
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Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Grand Rounds: Innovating the Future of Healthcare DesignJul 30, 2024The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation hosted a Grand Rounds presentation titled "Innovating the Future of Healthcare Design" with speakers Tushar Gupta, Mark Vaughan, and Chris Ressler, renowned leaders in healthcare architecture and design, on Tuesday, July 16.
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Heersink Institute Leadership Attend Symposium on AI in Health Care at Maastricht UniversityJul 03, 2024University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) faculty members recently participated in the AI in Medicine and Healthcare Symposium at Maastricht University, which brought together experts and stakeholders to discuss the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in transforming health care.
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VR/AR Association Event at UAB: Fostering Innovation in Health CareJun 12, 2024UAB recently hosted a VR/AR Association meeting that brought together innovators and experts from across the country to explore the application of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) in solving real-world challenges.
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AI in Medicine Graduate CertificateApr 08, 2024The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation offers an AI in Medicine Graduate Certificate to meet the growing impact of artificial intelligence in academic medicine. Stevan Fairburn, a UAB MS2 student currently enrolled in the program, met with the Heersink communications team to shed some light on the certificate program and its curriculum.
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Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Grand Rounds: Leadership to Accelerate Healthcare's Digital TransformationApr 08, 2024The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation held a Grand Rounds presentation with speaker Christy Harris Lemak, PhD., Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration in the School of Health Professions at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, on Tuesday, April 2.
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UAB Health System leads showcase at USASBE annual conferenceMar 22, 2024The United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) recently held its annual conference in Birmingham, Alabama, from Jan. 9-14, 2024. Hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) J. Frank Barefield, Jr. Entrepreneurship Program, the event, titled USASBE 2024: Forging the Future Together, brought together educators, innovators, and entrepreneurs from across the country and featured many team members from the UAB Heersink School of Medicine and UAB Medicine.
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Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Grand Rounds: Leveraging Consumer Available Virtual Reality Technology to Enhance Engagement to Therapy with Byron W. Lai, Ph.D.Mar 19, 2024The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation held a Grand Rounds presentation with speaker Byron W. Lai, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Pediatrics, on Thursday, March 14.
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Amid global ChatGPT obsession, UAB conference examines AI’s role in advancing health care and researchJun 14, 2023Experts at ATTIS 2023 shared reports from the front lines, including how they are using ChatGPT in their labs, the need for regulation and why this is a “tremendous time” for health care.
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Innovation Institute hosts country’s first metahealth symposium, Feb. 28Feb 20, 2023The event will explore a future of health care that “is going to be anchored in the metaverse” and be the first such symposium to be held both live and in the metaverse itself, according to Rubin Pillay, M.D., Ph.D., executive director of the Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation.
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A live biotherapeutic product reduces lung damage in a neonatal mouse model of chronic lung diseaseNov 14, 2022Experimental neonatal chronic lung disease is marked by a redox imbalance that damages the lungs, and that damage can be ameliorated using a live biotherapeutic mixture of three Lactobacillus species.