Recorded: April 12, 2024

The global health care landscape is facing unprecedented challenges, including an aging population, increasing rates of chronic disease and workforce shortages. The need for efficient, equitable and patientcentered systems has never been more important.  

Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize health care by optimizing workflows, improving diagnostics, creating personalized treatment plans and paving the way for novel applications such as virtual assistants, robotic surgery and predictive analytics.  

How is artificial intelligence already being used and what new applications are being explored? What challenges and biases exist for implementation in our current systems? Join us as three experts weigh in on how AI is shaping the future of health care and how interdisciplinary collaboration is key to driving innovation.


Moderator:

Claire Kennedy (BASc ’89 Chemical Engineering)  
Senior Advisor, Clients and Industries 
Bennett Jones LLP 
CoChair, Defy Gravity Campaign 
https://www.bennettjones.com/

Panelists:

Professor Milos Popovic,
(PhD ’96 Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Applied Science & Engineering)
Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto
Director, The KITE Research Institute at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute – University Health Network
https://www.kiteuhn.com/scientist/mi...

Professor Muhammad Mamdani,
Director, Temerty Faculty of Medicine Centre for Artificial Intelligence Education and Research in Medicine (TCAIREM), University of Toronto
Vice President, Data Science and Advanced Analytics at Unity Health Toronto
https://ims.utoronto.ca/faculty/muham...

Azi Boloorchi Drake,
(BSc ’04 Human Biology Arts & Science, MSc ’06 Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology Temerty Medicine, MBA ’09 Rotman School of Management)
Vice President, Commercial Strategy, Product & Analytics, Teladoc Health
https://www.teladochealth.ca/about/le...