Sidra Medicine is hosting Qatar’s first Artificial Intelligence and Medicine Symposium from 11 to 13 May. Sidra Medicine is a member of Qatar Foundation

The symposium, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine – Bringing Digital Breakthroughs to the Bedside, is a joint collaboration between Sidra Medicine, Texas A&M University at Qatar and Qatar University.

According to Dr Mitch Stotland, Symposium Chair and Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery at Sidra Medicine, the symposium will be a fantastic platform for those in the clinical, research and computer sciences community, whose work intersects healthcare and AI, to jointly share their experiences and challenges. He said they are honoured to welcome some of the world’s top thought leaders as well as local research experts.

There is much to learn from each other, and much to consider in how we prepare for future digital breakthroughs in machine learning. We hope that this will be the first of many research collaborations that will change the face of AI in medicine for the benefit of patients and the wider community.

Among the international keynote speakers are:

  • Daniyal Stoyanov, Professor of Robot Vision in UCL Computer Science (UK)
  • Roozbeh Jafari, Professor of Biomedical, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Texas A&M University (USA)
  • Moncef Gabbouj, Professor of Information Technology, Tampere University (Finland)
  • Alejandro Frangi, Diamond Jubilee Chair of Computational Medicine and RAEng Chair in Emerging Technologies, University of Leeds (UK)
  • Bart de Witte, Founder and CEO of the Hippo AI Foundation (Germany).

A pre-symposium workshop on the Basics of AI for Healthcare Workers will be part of the agenda as well as sessions covering a broad range of topics such as the use of AI in computer-assisted surgical systems and data management across large health systems within a healthcare context.

Other hot topics include precision medicine applications for patients with certain diseases as well as new developments in health-related AI in wearable devices. There will also be a panel discussion on ethics, moderated by Maleen Saeed from Al Jazeera Media Network.

To register and for more details, visit sidra.org.


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