Program Tracks

The symposium is organized around six program tracks, supported by keynotes, main-stage conversations, panels, workgroups, and concurrent sessions. 

 

The Program

Track 1: The Future Patient Journey

  • The Future Patient Journey
    • Muthu Alagappan, Counsel Health
    • Tom Lee, Galileo
    • Anand Naik, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
  • Special Session: Rural Health
    • Andrea Cooley, UT Tyler
    • John Henderson, Texas Organization of Rural Hospitals
    • Jim Weinstein, Senior VP of Microsoft
    • David Rhew, Global Chief Medical Officer & VP of Healthcare for Microsoft

Track 2: The AI-Enabled Clinician and Care Team

  • The AI-Enabled Clinician and Care Team, and Next-Generation Care Delivery: Robotics and Sensors 
    • Claudia Lucchinetti, Dean,UT Dell Medical School
    • Jose del R. Millan, Texas Robotics, UT Austin
  • Special Session: AI in Nursing Practice and Patient Care
    • Alyssa Staufacer, Abridge
    • Kimberly Alleman, Chief Nursing Officer, UTHealth Houston 
    • Nancy Doolittle, Chief Nurse Executive, UT Dell Medical School
  • Main-Stage Keynote
    • Robert Wachter, University of California, San Francisco
  • Main-Stage Keynote
    • Shiv Rao, CEO of Abridge

Track 3: The Value of AI

  • The Value of AI: revenue cycle, prior authorization, staffing, scheduling, throughput, supply chain, CMS, regulatory, payment models, ROI
    • Kedar Mate, Chief Medical Officer for Qualified Health
    • Emre Umucu, Associate Dean for Researcher, UT El Paso
    • Susan Fenton, Vice Dean for Education, UTHealth Houston
  • Special Session: AI Value Panel
    • Jack O'Hara, CEO, Translucent
    • Jamie Bailey, Chief Financial Officer, UT Medical Branch
    • Stephanie Swanson, Chief Financial Officer, UT Southwestern
    • Omer Sultan, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Special Session: Fireside Chat on AI Value and Impact
    • Kevin Schulman, Stanford
    • Stephanie Carlton, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 
    • Eric Peterson, UT Southwestern
  • Special Session: Keynote Fireside
    • Michael Dell, Dell Technologies
    • Jim Davis, President, UT Austin
    • Claudia Lucchinetti, Dean, Dell Medical School, UT Austin
    • Introduction by Peter McCaffrey, UT Medical Branch
  • Special Session: Investor Panel and Fireside 
    • Jim Breyer, Breyer Capital
    • Daniel Nadler, OpenEvidence
    • Morgan Cheatham, Breyer Capital
  • Special Session: VC Panel 
    • John Schilling, TPG
    • Vijay Pande,VZVC Venture Fund
    • Margaret Malone, Flare Capital
    • Pat Pace, MD, UTIMCO
  • Special Session: AI Disruption
    • Vijay Pande, VZVC Venture Fund
    • Dan Shoenthal, MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Special Session: Future of Robotics (value focus)
    • Peter Stone, Texas Robotics, UT Austin
    • Steph Tryphonos, Co.bot, Collaborative Robotics
    • Hugh Rashid, Navigait
    • Jeff Cardenas, Apptronik
    • Jiajie Zhang, UTHealth Houston

Track 4: Health, Wellness, and Performance

  • Leveraging AI to Improve Health, Wellness and Performance: "Soft Electronics for Human Sensing and Robotic Care in the AI Age"
    • Nanshu Lu, UT Austin
    • Eric Martinez, UT Rio Grande Valley
  • Special Session: Digital Twin Panel
    • Charley Taylor, Oden Institute, UT Austin
    • Caroline Chung, MD Anderson Cancer Center
    • Tom Yankeelov, Oden Institute, UT Austin
    • David Jaffray, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Track 5: From Discovery to Real-World Impact

  • From Discovery to Real-World Impact: Bridging the chasm to real-world impact; FDA and regulatory overview
  • Special Session: A National Path Forward for Trustworthy Health AI
    • Jason Funderburk, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)
    • Brian Anderson, Coalition for Health AI (CHAI)
    • James Buntrock, Dell Medical School, UT Austin
  • Special Session: AI Ethics and Social Implications
    • Craig Watkins, UT Austin
    • Joel Granoff, patient advocate
  • Special Session: Legal and Compliance
    • Dennis Char
    • Monika Bickert
    • Natalie Ramello, UT Southwestern
    • Jennifer Kennedy, UT System
  • Special Session: Government Relations - Shaping AI Policy in Healthcare
    • Sean Griffin, UT System 
  • Special Session: Workgroup Presentations - Maturity Framework, AIMS, UT-HIP
    • David Jaffray, Senior VP and Chief Technology and Digital Officer, MD Anderson
    • Shawn Stapleton, Director of Data Impact & Governance
    • Claus Jenson, Chief Information Officer, Dell Medical School
    • ShuRon Green, Executive Director of UT HIP
  • Special Session: Workgroup Presentations - UT REAL Health AI Moonshot Awards
    • Hongfang Liu, Chair, Department of Quantitative and Systems Health Sciences Dell Medical School
  • Special Session: Compute, Chips and AI Factories - Building the Infrastructure for the AI-Native Health System
    • Kelly Gaither, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
    • Paul Rad, Dean, UT San Antonio
    • Peter McCaffrey, UT Medical Branch

Track 6: AI and the Future of Education and Training

  • Education Track Keynote
    • Eric Larsen, President, TowerBrook Advisors
    • Moderator: Nilay Shah, Dell Medical School, UT Austin
  • AI-Ready Healthcare Education: Building Trust, Skills, and Responsible Practice
    • Susan Fenton, Vice Dean for Education, UTHealth Houston
    • Susan McBride, UT Tyler
    • Edward Sankary, UT San Antonio
  • Business Education and the AI-Ready Workforce
    • Bradley Staats, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin
  • Special Session: AI Brain Health
    • Jennifer Bickel, VP and Chief Wellness Officer Vice President and Chief Wellness Officer
    • Jochen Reiser, President of The University of Texas Medical Branch

 

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