SPEAKER: May Dongmei Wang, Professor in Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech
 

ABSTRACT: The 21st century has witnessed rapid progress in technologies, which opened door for further discovery, development, and delivery of AI solutions for healthcare. Still, there exist big challenges that require AI Implementation Science to ensure true societal impact. I will summarize advances and challenges in biomedical AI and share a few examples. On AI Foundation Models, we developed the first retrieval augmented generation (RAG) solutions for healthcare (received ACM SIGBio Best Paper Award in 2023) followed up by EHRAgent, MedAdapter etc. for ACL. On AI Implementation Science, we developed clinician-patient shared decision system that had gone through 9-month 3-Tier AI Showcase assessment in American Medical Informatics Association. On Metaverse for healthcare, we developed real-time system (received the Best Paper award in IEEE International Conference in Intelligent Reality). With joint effort from academia, industry, government, and health system, AI, when guided by safe, trustworthy, actionable, and responsible principles, will transform healthcare for better care outcome with lowers healthcare cost.

BIO: Dr. Wang is Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Fellow and professor of BME and ECE at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and Emory University (EU). She received BEng from Tsinghua University and MS/PhD from GT. Dr. Wang is Director of Biomedical Big Data Initiative, Georgia Distinguished Cancer Scholar, Board of Directors of American Board of AI in Medicine, Petit Institute Faculty Fellow, Kavli Fellow, and Fellow of IEEE, AIMBE, AMIA, IAMBE and ELATES. She delivered 380+ invited keynotes and lectures, and published 360+ peer reviewed articles over 19,000 Google Scholar citations. Dr. Wang received Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Mentor for Undergrad Research, and Emory University MilliPub Award for a high-impact paper cited over 1,000 times. Current, Dr. Wang is the Senior Editor for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on BME, and IEEE Reviews in BME. She has been a panelist for NIH (e.g. BDMA, CDMA, MSB) Study Sections, NSF (e.g. Smart and Connect Health, SBIB), and Brain Canada for over 15 years. She chairs Biomedical and Health Informatics Technical Community Steering Committee in IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society and leads ACM Special Interest Group in Bioinformatics. Dr. Wang research and education activities have been supported by NIH, NSF , CDC, Georgia Research Alliance, Georgia Cancer Coalition, Shriners’ Children, Children’s Health Care of Atlanta, Enduring Heart Foundation, Coulter Foundation, Imlay Foundation, Carol Ann and David Flanagan Foundation, Wallace H Coulter Foundation, Horizon Europe, Shepherd Center, Microsoft Research, HP, UCB, Amazon, and STEM and Leaders in Teaching and Learning Fellowship from Georgia Tech Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL).

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