More than 700 people attended this year’s symposium designed to explore the potential catalyst artificial intelligence can be for positive change in health care.
The 2025 UT System Artificial Intelligence (AI) Symposium in Health Care, hosted at UT Houston, provided an opportunity for knowledge to converge, ideas to flourish, and the future of AI-enhanced health care to begin to take shape. Attendees were inspired to imagine the impact AI could have across education, biomedical research, and medical care.
“The 2025 UT System AI Symposium in Healthcare was inspiring and energizing,” said Zain Kazmi, Associate Vice Chancellor, Chief Digital & Analytics Officer, Health Affairs, The University of Texas System. “The innovation, collaboration, and thought leadership on display made it clear that the UT Health Enterprise is not just embracing AI—we’re helping lead its future. Our AI strategy is a key pillar of the One UT Health Strategic Framework, ensuring that every advancement serves a larger purpose: improving care for our patients and the health of all Texans. Thank you to all who made this event such a success.”
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to revolutionize biomedical research, health care, and education. However, amid this exciting landscape, there has been a surge in news reports raising concerns that AI is prone to inflated expectations, errors, and biases. The UT System AI Symposium in Health Care aimed to bridge the gap between cutting-edge methodology and current day applications. The symposium brought together researchers, clinicians, educators, and students, to explore current AI activities, forge new collaborations between UT System researchers, practitioners and innovators, and uncover diverse AI possibilities.
“The UT System AI Symposium showcased the collective strength and vision of our health institutions as we embrace artificial intelligence to transform care, education, and discovery,” said Dr. Jiajie Zhang, Glassell Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Informatics Excellence Director, National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making (NCCD). “The brain is now open source—intelligence is shareable, scalable, and open. This symposium reflected our commitment to democratizing AI and positioning the UT System as a leader in this new era.”
The symposium featured keynotes from Peter Embí, MD, MS on the future of AI in academic medicine and Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD on AI’s impact on healthcare in Texas as well as sessions related to AI governance and regulation, AI in clinical trials, drug discovery, medical imaging and diagnostics as well as AI literacy and education. The symposium also featured perspectives from various industry, academic and UT System partners including but not limited to Apex Systems, AWS, Epic, META Microsoft, Vanderbilt and UTHealth Houston, UT Health San Antonio, UTMB Galveston, UT MD Anderson, UT Southwestern, UT Austin, UT Rio Grande Valley and UT Tyler.
