September 25, 2023

Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation hosts Generative AI for Healthcare Symposium

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The Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation held a symposium titled "Generative AI for Healthcare: Progress or Peril" with multiple speakers, all innovators in the field of health care, on Tuesday, Sept. 12.

This symposium allowed participants to explore generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies from OpenAI and other leading experts, gain insights into AI's potential to guide adoption and integration, and learn how to position their own organization as a forward-thinking leader in the health care industry. 

Speakers and Sessions

Matt Might, Ph.D., director of UAB's Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute (PMI)
Accelerating precision medicine (and absolutely everything else) with LLMs

Anthony Chang, M.D., MBA, MPH, M.S., founder of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMed) and chief intelligence and innovation officer and medical director of the Heart Failure Program at Children’s Hospital of Orange County
Generative AI in Clinical Medicine and Healthcare– Current State and Future Directions

John Osborne, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Medicine and the Department of Computer Science in the Collat School of Business
Applications of NLP to EHRs

Eric Ford, Ph.D., professor of Health Policy and Organization, UAB School of Public Health
Patterns of Nursing Documentation Analyses – Prospective use case of Generative AI

Ryan Melvin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, and Ryan Godwin, Ph.D., instructor in the UAB Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and the UAB Department of Radiology
Practical Introduction to Building LLM

Rex Cardan, Ph.D., associate professor and director of Proton Physics, UAB Department of Radiation Oncology
Generative AI to Improve Medical Software Development

Harvey Castro, M.D., MBA, ChatGPT Healthcare Advisor
ChatGPT and Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges

Ryan Godwin, Ph.D., instructor in the UAB Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and the UAB Department of Radiology
Live Demo of LLM Apps for Medicine

Panel facilitated by Sandeep Bodduluri, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Medicine and instructor and advisor for AI Programming for the Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation, and Carlos Cardenas, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UAB Department of Radiation Oncology and director of AI Research and Development for the Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation
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