PROGRAM DETAILS
8.30 - 9.30 am Registration
9:15 am Welcome
9:15 - 10:00 am Opening Remarks
SESSION 1
10:00 - 12:00 pm
Session Chair
AI in women’s health (brief overview)
Pregnancy -Leveraging AI to triage high risk patients in poor resourced areas
Infrastructure: Clinical Data Infrastructure essentials for quality AI and moving Women’s Health forward
Microbiome- From microbes to machines: leveraging computational approaches to decode microbial roles in reproductive aging.
Maternal Birth Injury - Birth as a Biomechanical Event: Digital Twins to Understand Injury, Recovery, and Dysfunction
Extracellular DNA- Precision Medicine in Pregnancy
Cardiovascular Health - Women’s Health Before, During and After Pregnancy: 1000 Days of Maternal Health
Kanak Iyer Ph.D, MPH
Entrepreneur, Researcher, Co-Founder The Biotechnology Board
Rema Padman Ph.D
Trustees Professor of Management Science & Healthcare Informatics, CMU
Dean Anantha Shekhar MD, Ph.D
Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pamela Moalli MD, Ph.D
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Vice Chair of Research
Interim Executive Director of the Magee Womens Research Institute
Hyagriv Simhan, MD, MS
Lara Lemon, Ph.D PharmD
Eldin Jasarevic, Ph.D
Steve Abramowitch, Ph.D
Pamela Moalli, MD, Ph.D
Dave Peters, Ph.D
Janet Catov, Ph.D, MS
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12:00 -1:00 pm - Lunch
SESSION 2
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Session Chair
Topic: Utilizing AI to Optimize Women’s Healthcare While Addressing Inequities and Narrowing the Disparity Gap
Our experts will address the AI essential knowledge base, the challenges and opportunities related to all women ,highlighting those in low socio-economic social settings and women of color. It will shine light on the needs and resources needed to be inclusive when developing algorithms and AI tools to enhance the health care for this population, reducing the health equity gap. It will address the fear and apprehension of providers, clients and patients who may see AI as replacement for the humanism that must remain in medicine.
Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, MD
Professor & Academic Chair of Ob/Gyn
Drexel University School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor Department of Ob/Gyn Magee Women’s Hospital,University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
L&P Consulting Group, LLC, Pittsburgh,PA
Uduak Ndoh, MBA, University of Pittsburgh
Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, Health Sciences and Deputy Chief Information O cer at the
Dr Christin Herring, MD, MEd, MPPM
CEO & Co-Founder of Herring Seminars & Consulting
Sandra Indacochea Sobel, MD
MD is a triple board-certi ed physician in Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Lifestyle Medicine, and Obesity Medicine.
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SESSION 3
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
AI in Research - Addressing AI-enabled Precision Medicine and Patient Care for Women
Session Chair
Dr. Rema Padman, Ph.D, FAMIA
Trustees Professor of Management Science & Healthcare Informatics Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. Vanathi Gopalakrishnan, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics (Primary), Bioengineering, Clinical and Translational Science (Secondary) Director, PRoBE Laboratory for Pattern Recognition from Biomedical Evidence Founding Director, Pitt VIHAR Center, School of Medicine University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Indu Poornima, MD, MS, FACC Professor of Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine Director, Clinical Cardiology & Imaging, Quality O cer, Cardiovascular Institute Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. Holly Wiberg, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Public Policy
Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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3:00 -3:30 pm - Tea Break
SESSION 4
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Topic: Advocacy, Public policy and Ethics
Session Chair
Susan Catalano, Ph.D
Chief Scienti c O cer, Circle Biopharma Presient, The Biotechnology Board
Dr.Arvind Venkat MD
PA Representative
Rich Fitzgerald
Executive Director Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission
Jocelyn Fitzgerald MD
Urogynecologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, specializing in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (FPMRS) at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital.
Liz Powell ESQ., MPH
Founder, President & CEO G2G Consulting
Dr. Kristine L. Blair, Ph.D
Dean, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts Duquesne University
Conclusion Michael Annichine
CEO Magee-Womens Hospital Research Institute
