2022 Main Conference Agenda

Location: Durham Convention Center - 301 W Morgan St, Durham, NC 27701

Livestream link here.        

Friday, August 5th, 2022 (all times are EDT)

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8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast and Coffee

-----Session 1 -----

9:00 - 9:05 Introductions, Mark Sendak, MD

9:05 - 9:30 Allan Kirk, MD, PhD, Duke University

9:30 - 9:55 Jitendra Malik, PhD, University of California at Berkeley

  • Observing People 

9:55 - 10:25 Moderated Discussion/Q&A with Jitendra Malik and Allan Kirk         

Moderator: Serena Yeung, PhD                                         

10:25 - 10:50 Spotlight presentations for Posters A

10:50 - 11:25 Coffee Break

---Poster Session A & Roundtables---

11:25 - 11:55 Roundtables with Gold Sponsors:

  • Abridge - Topic: Documenting and Summarizing Clinical Conversations

    Description: Automatic documentation of clinical conversations can help combat physician burnout, improve patient adherence, and provide accurate risk assessment. Developing solutions in this space involves tackling several challenges from spontaneous conversation understanding, summarization, and information extraction in the presence of medical jargon. In this roundtable, let's discuss the challenges, applications, and benefits of automatically documenting doctor-patient conversations.

  • Health[at]Scale - Topic: Recruiting and to discuss Health[at]Scale’s work

  • Optum - Topic: Optum Technology: Discussing our Company’s Work

  • Medical Informatics Corporation - Topic: Perioperative AI User Group

  • Note: Virtual Attendees can participate in “Virtual Roundtable Discussion 1” during this time at this link.

11:55 - 12:40 Spotlight presentations for Posters A

12:40 - 14:00 Lunch / Papers Research Track Posters A

-----Session 2-----

14:00 - 14:25  Andrew Bazemore, MD, PhD, American Board of Family Medicine    

14:25 - 14:50   Been Kim, PhD, Google Brain

  • Don’t do it Emmanuel! How to stop worrying about interpretability, and start making progress

 14:50 - 15:20 Moderated Discussion/Q&A with Andrew Bazemore and Been Kim         

Moderator:  Jim Fackler, MD

15:20 - 15:40 Coffee Break

---Poster Session B ---

15:40 - 16:25 Spotlight presentations for Posters B

16:25 - 18:00  Drinks & Appetizers / Papers Research Track Posters B


Saturday, August 6th, 2022
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8:00 - 10:00 Breakfast and Coffee

Spotlight presentations for Posters C / Clinical Abstracts will be played during breakfast

-----Session 3-----

10:00 - 10:25  Tristan Naumann, PhD, Microsoft

  • Natural Language Processing for Healthcare

10:25 - 10:50   Cara O’Brien, MD, Duke University

  • One Clinician’s “How To” Guide for Developing and Implementing AI Tools in Healthcare

10:50 - 11:20 Moderated Discussion/Q&A with Tristan Naumann and Cara O’Brien

Moderator: Zack Lipton, PhD

---Poster Session C & Roundtables---

11:20 - 12:05 Roundtables

  1. Interdisciplinary ML+Healthcare collaborations (Host: Jeff Jopling)

  2. ML Ops (Hosts: Marshall Nichols & Michael Gao)

  3. Reinforcement learning in healthcare: challenges and opportunities (Host: Shengpu Tang)

  4. Challenges in transportability of predictive models in healthcare (Host: Rahul Krishnan)

  5. Mentorship (Host: Shems Saleh)

  6. Machine Learning Considerations for Medical Imaging (Host: Josiah Aklilu)

  7. Algorithmic Justice (Host: Willie Boag)

  • Note: Virtual Attendees can participate in “Virtual Roundtable Discussion 2” during this time at this link.

12:05 - 14:05 Lunch / Clinical Abstract Posters Posters C

-----Session 4----- 

14:05 - 14:30 Fan Li, PhD, Duke University

  • Machine learning for causal inference: A cautionary tale

14:30 - 14:55 Miguel Hernan, PhD, Harvard University

  • What does “learning from data” mean? A taxonomy of tasks for health data science

14:55 - 15:25 Moderated Discussion/Q&A with Fan Li and Miguel Hernan

Moderator: Rajesh Ranganath, PhD

Feedback Session

15:30 - 16:30     Open feedback session with the MLHC Organizers to discuss ways to improve the conference in the future.