Agenda

Agenda is updated daily as speakers and panelists are confirmed.

Time	Activities
8:00 am – 8:30 am	Registration & Networking
8:30 am – 8:45 am	Welcome & Opening Remarks from Workshop Chairs Raju Gottumukkala, PhD, Director, Center for Applied AI & AHeAD; BORSF Professor in Applied Artificial Intelligence; Director of Research, IRI; Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering University of Louisiana at Lafayette
8:45 am – 9:25 am	Keynote Speaker: Closing the Last Mile Gap in Healthcare: The Role of an AI Center of Excellence Ashish Atreja, MD, MPH, FACP, AGAF, App Doctor; UC Davis Health, United States, Venture Partner, GVX.vc (Global Ventures Accelerator) Professor of Medicine, UC Davis Health
9:25 am – 9:35 am	Break
9:35 am – 10:35 am	Panel 1: Making AI Trustworthy in Healthcare: Lessons Learned and Practical Frameworks for Success. Moderator: Scott Simeone, VP Experience and Digital Transformation, Ochsner Health; Leading Digital Strategy, Virtual Care, innovationOchsner, and AI Aron Culotta, PhD, Director of the Center for Community Engaged AI, Professor, Tulane University David Leingang, MPA, Director, Innovation – AI, Data Science, and Analytics, Ochsner Health Lee Mendoza, PhD, Director – Bureau of Health Informatics, Louisiana Dept. of Health Muhammad Idris, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medicine; Co-Director, Center of Excellence for the Validation of Clinical Algorithms, Morehouse School of Medicine Joseph Shepley, PhD, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal
10:35 am – 10:45 am	Break
10:45 am – 11:45 am	Panel 2: Workforce Ready: Preparing the Health Sector for the AI Era Moderator: Gabriela Wilson, PhD, MSc, FHIMSS, FIAHSI, SNAI, Director, Louisiana Center for Health Innovation; Professor, Dr. J. Robert Rivet Endowed Chair & Acadian Ambulance Service/BORSF Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Health Informatics, College of Nursing & Health Sciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dana Castro, Senior Director, HIMSS Institute; Workforce Development & Technology Strategist Eric Griggs, MD, Associate Vice President of Community Health Affairs, Access Health Louisiana Jason Hill, MD, Innovation Officer, Senior Lecturer of Internal Medicine, University of Queensland Medical School, Ochsner Health Lizheng Shi, PhD, MsPharm, MA, Director, Health Systems Analytics Research Center; Mary Vanselow Endowed Chair in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Tulane University
11:45 am – 11:55 pm	Break
11:55 pm – 1:00 pm	Fireside Chat Panel – From Lab to Bedside: Fostering Collaborative Innovation in Healthcare AI Moderator: Jason Hill, MD, Innovation Officer, Senior Lecturer of Internal Medicine, University of Queensland Medical School, Ochsner Health Ashish Atreja, MD, MPH, FACP, AGAF, App Doctor; UC Davis Health, United States, Venture Partner, GVX.vc (Global Ventures Accelerator), Professor of Medicine, UC Davis Health Jocelyn Campbell, CEO, Health Comply AI Will Landry, SVP, Chief Information Officer, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System
1:00 pm – 1:10 pm	Break
1:10 pm – 2:50 pm	Invited Talks Moderator: Chris Kimmel, Chief Innovation Officer, Informatics Research Institute, UL Lafayette Scott Simeone, VP Experience and Digital Transformation @ Ochsner Health \| Leading Digital Strategy, Virtual Care, innovationOchsner, and AI Mohit Prabhushankar, PhD., Postdoctoral Researcher, Georgia Tech Aron Culotta, PhD., Director of the Center for Community Engaged AI, Professor, Tulane University Anand Paul, PhD, Professor – Biostatistics & Data Science, LSU Health Sciences Center Raju Gottumukkala, PhD, Director, Center for Applied AI; Director of Research, Informatics Research Institute; BORSF Professorship in Applied AI; Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2:50 pm – 3:05 pm	Closing Remarks & Next Steps Raju Gottumukkala, PhD, Director, Center for Applied AI & AHeAD; BORSF Professor in Applied Artificial Intelligence; Director of Research, IRI; Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering University of Louisiana at Lafayette