SOHP Health Informatics Hosts AI in Healthcare Discussion
By Office of the President | May 24, 2023
The School of Health Professions (SOHP) recently held a virtual seminar, “Artificial Intelligence in Health Care,” featuring Downstate faculty and leading national experts on the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize medicine.
Panelists covered the history of AI from the origin of the term “artificial intelligence” in 1956 and its evolutionary application to medicine over succeeding decades to the explosive, fast-paced impact AI currently has on clinical decision-making. Also discussed were the latest advancements, emerging challenges, and futurist perspectives. For example, could the sheer power of big data, machine learning, and cognitive modeling applications such as ChatGPT change best practices from “evidence-based medicine” to “intelligence-based medicine?”
The panelists also described the current state-of-the-art and the many challenges in fully capitalizing on this exciting technology. The panel presentation culminated in a wide-ranging discussion with more than 50 audience participants.
The seminar, sponsored by SOPH’s Health Informatics Program, and moderated by Adiebonye Jumbo, Ph.D., ITIL, Assistant Professor of Health Informatics, featured David Kaufman, Ph.D., FACMI, Clinical Associate Professor of Health Informatics at Downstate; Edward Shortliffe, M.D., Ph.D., MACP, Chair Emeritus and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University; Trevor Cohen, MBChB, Ph.D., Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington;
and Anthony Chang, M.D., MBA, MPH, Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer at Children’s Health of Orange County,
California, and Chair of the American Board of AI in Medicine and the Alliance of
Centers of AI in Medicine.
Downstate’s Health Informatics Program consistently looks for new opportunities to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed in a rapidly-changing world and ever-evolving healthcare landscape, and though they may not necessarily pursue careers as AI scientists, basic literacy in AI is increasingly vital for informaticists.
Thank you to Allen Lewis, Ph.D., CRC, Dean and Professor of the School of Health Professions, Mohammad Faysel, Ph.D., Chair and Associate Professor of Health Informatics, and the faculty and staff who contributed to this event.
Click the link to access the full seminar, and use passcode: sK0nQ&5%.