Collaborative Workshops
McGovern Medical School Research Committee has launched a series of interdisciplinary professional development workshops designed to appeal to both clinicians and basic scientists to promote collaborative research interactions across the UTHealth campus. The schedule for FY 2024 is listed below.
Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine and Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially Machine Learning (ML), is playing an increasingly integral role in biomedical discovery, patient care, disease prevention, and business operations. With advanced technology in data science and the wide availability of digital health data, AI and ML have aided clinicians in resolving a wide array of real-world problems that impact patient outcomes and organizational efficiencies within health care. Acknowledging a growing interest in and reliance on AI and ML, this collaborative workshop will feature faculty from McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston, who are conducting cutting-edge research and applying the latest AI and ML tools and techniques in the service of UTHealth Houston and the broader scientific community. The workshop program will feature a brief overview of Medical AI and the McWilliams School, as well as presentations on large language model applications, learning health systems, imaging applications, and various other representative projects.
January 17, 2024
9:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Chaired by Jiajie Zhang, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth
Speakers:
| 9:00 am – 9:20 am Jiajie Zhang, Ph.D. McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics “Introduction to Medical AI and McWilliams School” |
| 9:20 am– 9:35 am Xiaoqian Jiang, Ph.D. McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics “Large Language Model Applications in Healthcare” |
| 9:35 am – 9:40 am Discussion |
| 9:40 am – 9:55 am Luca Giancardo, Ph.D. McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics “Acute Stroke Imaging: Pushing the Boundaries of Existing Modalities with Machine Learning” |
| 9:55 am – 10:00 am Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am Degui Zhi, Ph.D., MS McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics “AI, Genetics, and Imaging” |
| 10:15 am – 10:20 am Discussion |
| 10:20 am – 10:35 am Laila Bekhet, Ph.D. McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics “Foundation Models for Medicine: Med-BERT and Beyond” |
| 10:35 am – 10:40 am Discussion |
| 10:40 am – 10:55 am Yejin Kim, Ph.D. McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics “Identifying Personalized Treatment Effects from Data” |
| 10:55 am – 11:00 am Discussion |
| 11:00 am – 11:15 am Hongfang Liu, Ph.D. McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics “Informatics and AI for Learning Health Systems” |
| 11:15 am – 11:20 am Discussion |
| 11:20 am – 11:50 am Wrap-up and Discussion |