THURSDAY | SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 | 6:30–8 PM ET (VIRTUAL)
AI for Health and Wellcare
AI for Health and Wellcare is designed for aspiring and practicing clinicians and those interested in applying AI to deliver more personalized, effective, and efficient care across the lifespan from bedside to daily life. The discussion will center around a series of use cases that illustrate how AI has been utilized to address current labor, skill, and resource limitations and its potential for shaping how care is conceptualized in a rapidly changing global and social context. Given the demands of regulation and data privacy, we consider the risks of autonomous AI and ways to mitigate these concerns using human-in-the-loop approaches. The presenters have scientific and industry experience ranging from rehabilitation science and assistive technology, pharmaceutical sciences and drug delivery, to population health and epidemic monitoring.
PRESENTED BY:
Rupal Patel, Ph.D.
Professor
Bouvé College of Health Science and Khoury College of Computer Science
Northeastern University
Professor Patel is a tenured professor with interdisciplinary appointments in Bouvé College of Health Science and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Her research interests lie at the intersection of speech neuroscience and artificial intelligence. She has decades of real-world clinical and industry experience in applied AI. Most recently, she founded and led VocaliD, a voice AI company that created personalized synthetic voices for individuals living with speechlessness and brands who want to be heard in a voice that is uniquely theirs. Professor Patel is active in the Boston start-up ecosystem as a consultant, advisor and board member.
Satish Tadikonda, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Entrepreneurial Management
Harvard Business School
Dr. Tadikonda is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School. As a serial entrepreneur in the life sciences and healthcare, his primary interests lie at the intersection of drug discovery, medical device and diagnostics development, and software systems for accelerating clinical trials and regulatory approvals. He serves on a variety of public and private company boards and is an early stage investor.
Nikhil Bhojwani
Managing Partner
Recon Strategy
Nikhil Bhojwani is a Managing Partner at Recon Strategy, a consulting firm that he co-founded in 2010. His clients are leaders across all sectors of healthcare including health systems, provider organizations, payers, biopharma, medtech, and digital health. In addition, Nikhil stays close to the startup community and has been a board member or advisor at several early stage companies, most notably the AI incubator fund C10 Labs and CIC Health, which was based on an HBR article Nikhil co-authored with Dr. Atul Gawande. He is a frequent speaker on AI in healthcare including as the 2023 Dorothy Eisenberg Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School and as a guest lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health. He co-led (along with Prof. Satish Tadikonda) a webinar series on scaling AI in healthcare and lifesciences for Harvard Business School’s D^3 Institute. His TEDxBoston talk introduced the concept of the “Spooky Mountain” and how we can overcome it to accelerate AI adoption in healthcare.