Agenda

The New Wave of AI in Healthcare 2026

Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 8:30 AM - Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 5:15 PM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Check-in and Breakfast
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Session I: Welcome & State of the Art AI Models in Healthcare

Chairperson: Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, MPH, CPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

9:00 AM 

Welcome Remarks
Melanie Brickman Borchard, PhD, MSc, The New York Academy of Sciences
Eric Nestler, MD, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA, MS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Alexander Charney, MD, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, MPH, CPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai  

09:15 AM 

Opening Keynote Presentation
John Halamka, MD, MS, Mayo Clinic  

10:00 AM  

From Data to Knowledge: Integrating Clinical and Molecular Data with AI for Predictive Medicine
Marina Sirota, PhD, University of California, San Francisco

10:30 AM 

Raghav Mani, NVIDIA                                                                                                                             

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Networking Break
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Session II: State of the Art AI Models in Healthcare (Continued)

Chairperson: Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, MPH, CPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

11:30 AM 

Discovery-Driven Care: How Multimodal AI Bridges Science and Medicine
Jonathan Carlson, PhD, Microsoft 

12:00 PM 

The New Architecture of Intelligent Healthcare: From Predictive Models to Clinical Reasoning Ecosystems
Azra Bihorac, MD, MS FCCM, FASN, University of Florida  

12:30 PM - 12:40 PM
Session III: Data Blitz Talks Selected from Abstracts

Chairperson: Ipek Ensari, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

12:40 PM - 1:50 PM
Networking Lunch
1:50 PM - 2:05 PM
Session IV: Data Blitz Talks Selected from Abstracts(Continued)

Chairperson: Ipek Ensari, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

2:05 PM - 3:00 PM
Session V: AI at the Bedside (Panel Discussion)

Chairperson: Robert Freeman, DNP, RN, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

2:05 PM

Moderator: Robert Freeman, DNP, RN, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Panelists:
Pierre Elias, MD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Lisa Stump, MS, FASHP, Mount Sinai Health System
Karen Wong, MD, MPH, Epic  

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Networking Break
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Session VI: AI at the Bedside

Chairperson: Robert Freeman, DNP, RN, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

3:30 PM 

Reimagining the Work – The AI-Driven Cardiologist
Pierre Elias, MD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center  

4:00 PM 

Driving Impact with AI in Healthcare
Lisa Stump, MS, FASHP, Mount Sinai Health System

4:30 PM 

Embedded Intelligence in the EHR
Karen Wong, MD, MPH, Epic  

5:00 PM - 5:05 PM
Closing Remarks, NYAS and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
5:05 PM - 6:00 PM
Reception and Poster Session
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Check-in and Breakfast
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM
Welcome Remarks

Melanie Brickman Borchard, PhD, MSc, The New York Academy of Sciences
Alexander Charney, MD, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, MPH, CPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

9:05 AM - 10:20 AM
Session VII: Keynote & Learning Health System

Chairperson: Benjamin Glicksberg, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

9:05 AM Keynote Presentation
Dave A. Chokshi, MD, MSc, City University of New York 

9:50 AM The All of Us Research Program: Using AI for Big Data and Big Impact
Joshua C. Denny, MD, MS, FCCM, FASN, NIH All of Us 

10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
Networking Break
10:50 AM - 12:15 PM
Session VIII: Learning Health System (continued)

Chairperson: Benjamin Glicksberg, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

10:50 AM 

Should med students write and grade their own boards? Should we allow AI to do the same?  Andrew Gruen, PhD, MLCommons 

11:20 AM 

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Benjamin Glicksberg, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

Panelists:
Joshua C. Denny, MD, MS, FCCM, FASN, NIH All of Us
Emrin Horgusluoglu, PhD, NIH National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health  

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Networking Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Session IX: AI Versus Human

Chairperson: Eugenia Alleva, MD, MSc, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

1:30 PM 

Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc, University of California, San Diego 

2:00 PM 

Health AI: What Makes Humans Special?
Vardit Ravitsky, PhD, The Hastings Center for Bioethics 

2:30 PM 

Debate
Moderator: Girish N. Nadkarni, MD, MPH, CPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Debaters:
Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc, University of California, San Diego
Vardit Ravitsky, PhD, The Hastings Center for Bioethics 

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Networking Break
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Session X: AI-Human Interactions

Chairperson: Alexander Charney, MD, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

3:45 PM 

The Future of Mental Health and AI – Perspective from Research, Entrepreneurship, and Implementation
Tanzeem Choudhury, PhD, Cornell Tech  

4:15 PM 

Building the Next Generation Hospital – How AI, Data Integration, and Platform Thinking Will Reshape Patient Care
Falk Übernickel, Dr oec, Hasso Plattner Institute d-school  

4:45 PM - 4:55 PM
Closing Remarks, NYAS and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai