One-Day Symposium
Ethical and Inclusive Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Improve Health
- What: One-day symposium
- When: Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Where: Husky Union Building Lyceum, University of Washington
- Registration: $50 General, Free to UW trainees/students
Registration
The IMDS Symposium has reached capacity and registration is now closed. Thank you to everyone who registered. Please note we are unable to accommodate walk-ins.
Sponsors
Details
The 2025 UW Medical Data Science Symposium will bring together leading UW researchers to discuss ethical and inclusive data science and AI to improve health. Subthemes include:
Trustworthy and Ethical AI for Medicine
Governance of AI and Data Science for clinical applications
Lowering barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration for clinical applications of AI and Data Science
Translation of AI Methods into Clinical Practice
Equitable and Inclusive AI and Data Science in Health
Keynote: From AI Aspirations to Healthcare Futures
Eric Horvitz, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of Microsoft
Advances in large language models are generating significant interest and fueling enthusiasm for their potential to contribute to addressing long-standing challenges in biomedical informatics, healthcare delivery, and public health. Progress in task-specific accuracies and the emergence of new capabilities have been largely driven by the increasing scale of data and compute. Boosts in general capabilities, along with recent innovations, such as advancements in multimodal modeling, inference-time reasoning, and multiagent platforms, are framing new opportunities to enhance clinical decision support, medical education, and research. I will trace the arc of AI developments in medicine over several decades and then focus on recent advances. Through a series of studies and examples, I will explore directions and possibilities and share reflections on the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.
Dr. Eric Horvitz serves as Microsoft’s Chief Scientific Officer. He spearheads company-wide initiatives, navigating opportunities and challenges at the confluence of scientific frontiers, technology, and society, including strategic efforts in AI, medicine, and the biosciences.
The symposium also includes:
- Panel discussion on ethical AI featuring:
- Diane M. Korngiebel, DPhil, AI Ethicist, Google; Associate Professor, UW Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington
- Jeff Leek, PhD, Vice President and Chief Data Officer, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
- Yulia Tsvetkov, PhD, Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
- Andrew White, MD, SFHN, FACP, Assistant Chief Information Officer, University of Washington
- Updates on IMDS Pilot Award Projects
- Opportunities to network and meet people
Additional Symposium Details
Date
Thursday, February 6, 2025
- Registration opens at 8 a.m.
- Keynote begins at 9 a.m.
- Event concludes at 5 p.m.
Location
Husky Union Building Lyceum
4001 East Stevens Way Northeast
Seattle, WA 98195
Cost
The Symposium registration fee includes morning coffee, lunch, and a post-event reception with light refreshments.
- General Registration: $50
- UW trainees/students: FREE
- Poster presenters: FREE (note poster submissions are now closed)
Registration
The IMDS Symposium has reached capacity and registration is now closed. Please note we are unable to accommodate walk-ins.
Attendees
The symposium is open to all — including those outside of UW —with an interest in ethical and inclusive data science and Artificial Intelligence, healthcare, and digital health.
Scientific Programming Committee Members
Chairs
- Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD, FACMI, Chair and Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME), University of Washington
- Ali Shojaie, PhD, Professor and Associate Chair for Strategic Research Affairs, Biostatistics; Professor of Statistics
Members
- Patrick Boyle, PhD, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Associate Chair of Operations, Bioengineering
- Trevor Cohen, MBChB, PhD, FACMI, Professor Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME)
- Nathan Cross, MD, MS, CIIP, Vice Chair of Informatics, Associate Professor of Radiology, School of Medicine
- Noah Hoffman, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Head of the Informatics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
- Mehmet Kurt, PhD, UW Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Adjunct Associate Professor of Radiology
- Su-In Lee, PhD, Paul G. Allen Professor, Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences (GS), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education (BIME); Director, Computational Molecular Biology Program; AI Core Director, NIH Nathan Shock Center for Basic Biology of Aging; Associate Director, Resuscitation Engineering Science Unit, UW Medicine
- Lucy Lu Wang, PhD, UW Assistant Professor at Information School. Adjunct Assistant Professor, UW Human Centered Design & Engineering, UW Biomedical Informatics & Medical Education, and UW Computer Science & Engineering
Questions
Contact: imds@uw.edu