Panel 1
Making AI Trustworthy in Healthcare: Lessons Learned and Practical Frameworks for Success
Panel Moderator
Mr. Scott Simeone, VP Experience and Digital Transformation, Ochsner Health; Leading Digital Strategy, Virtual Care, innovationOchsner, and AI
Aron Culotta, PhD
Director of 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
Panel 2
Workforce Ready: Preparing the Health Sector for the AI Era.”
This panel will focus on how AI is reshaping roles in healthcare and what leaders are doing to build scalable workforce training, drive innovation, and develop sustainable partnerships.
Panel 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
Dana Castro
Senior Director, HIMSS Institute; former tech executive at HP
Eric Griggs, MD
Associate Vice President of Community Affairs, Access Health Louisiana
Jason Hill, MD, MMM
Innovation Officer; Senior Lecturer of Internal Medicine at The University of Queensland Medical School, Ochsner Health
Lizheng Shi, PhD, MsPharm, MA
Tulane University
Lunch Panel
From Lab to Bedside: Fostering Collaborative Innovation in Healthcare AI.
The goal of this session is to explore the vital connections and potential synergies between academic research, hospital implementation, and industry validation in healthcare AI.
Jason Hill, MD, MMM
Innovation Officer; Senior Lecturer of Internal Medicine at The University of Queensland Medical School, Ochsner Health
Ashish Atreja, MD, MPH, FACP, AGAF
MD, MPH, ‘App Doctor’; @NodeHealthorg and VALID AI, Professor of Medicine, UC Davis Health
Jocelyn Campbell
CEO, Healthcare Comply AI
Will Landry
SVP, Chief Information Officer, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System
The AI 4 Health Outcomes Initiative 