This roundtable examines how AI is transforming medicine, from genomic modeling to clinical tools used in healthcare systems. It focuses on challenges of trust, evidence, and equity, including how to evaluate AI, ensure fairness, and responsibly integrate data-driven decisions into patient care.
The roundtable examines how artificial intelligence is transforming medicine -- from protein language models that predict genomic variant effects to clinical large language models deployed across hospital systems. The panel explores questions of trust, evidence, and equity: How should clinicians evaluate AI tools trained on millions of patient records? Can algorithmic fairness frameworks prevent health disparities from being encoded into predictive models? What happens when digital biomarkers from wearable sensors or AI-analyzed pathology slides become the basis for clinical decisions? The discussion spans genomic AI, computational neuropathology, mobile mental health sensing, health system AI deployment, and the challenge of building equitable, evidence-based AI for patient care.
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This is a past event that happened on April 18th, 2026 at 2:30PM.
Participants
Research Professor, Department of Population Health and Medicine & Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science, NYU Langone School of Medicine
Dr. Yin Aphinyanaphongs is a Research Professor in the Department of Population Health and Medicine and the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science at NYU Langone School of Medicine. He also leads the Division of Applied AI Techologies (DAAIT) within the Department of Health Informatics in Medical Center Information Technology. The Division builds, implements,...
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Assistant Professor, Human Genetics and Genomics, New York University
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Nadav Brandes is an Assistant Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he is a core faculty member in the Center for Human Genetics and Genomics and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, with an affiliation at the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing and Data Science. He earned his PhD in Computer...
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Chief of Health Innovation
The Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology, Cornell Tech
Tanzeem Choudhury is the Chief of Health Innovation and the Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology at Cornell Tech, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. Prof. Choudhury directs the People-Aware Computing group which creates wearables and multi-modal AI systems to better...
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Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering & Biostatistics, NYU School of Global Public Health
Rumi Chunara is Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, and Biostatistics at NYU School of Global Public Health where she Directs the Center for Health Data Science. Her laboratory develops computational and statistical approaches for acquiring, integrating and using data to improve population-level public health. She has worked...
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Professor of Pathology, Neuroscience, and Artificial Intelligence & Human Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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Dr. John Crary is a Professor of Pathology, Neuroscience, and Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He directs the Neuropathology Brain Bank and leads major institutional efforts to integrate AI into pathology and laboratory medicine. A nationally recognized authority on deploying AI in healthcare, Dr. Crary has...
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