Agenda

The New Wave of AI in Healthcare 2026

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

Hess Center for Science and Medicine

1470 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10029

Floor 2, Davis Auditorium

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
Nicholas Dirks, PhD, 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: Transforming Care Delivery Today—and What Comes Next 
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 

AI Models & Agents in Healthcare

Raghav Mani, MS, 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: Eugenia Alleva, MD, MSc, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

12:30 PM

Sizing the health system outpatient capacity problem and understanding the value of A.I. triage: a cross-sectional study 

Bilal Naved, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 

 

12:35 PM

An Operational AI Trustworthiness and Transparency Framework for Learning Health Systems: Integrating Data-Driven Governance Across the Enterprise 

Parsa Mirhaji, MD, PhD, NYU Langone Health 

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

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

1:50 PM

AI-Driven Imaging Reveals Distinct Clot-Associated Platelet Activation Pathways 

Angela Pierides, University of Technology Sydney 

 

1:55 PM

Generation of Synthetic Laryngoscopy Images Using StyleGAN3 

Anaïs Rameau, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine 

 

2:00 PM

Genomic Heterogeneity Inflates the Performance of Variant Pathogenicity Predictions 

Po-Yu Lin, MD, NYU Langone Health

2:05 PM - 3:05 PM
Session V: AI at the Bedside

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

2:05 PM

Embedded Intelligence in the EHR 

Karen Wong, MD, MPH, Epic 

 

2:35 PM

AI Models and Agentic Systems Across the Precision Health Ecosystem

Alexander Fedotov, PhD, AstraZeneca

3:05 PM - 3:35 PM
Networking Break
3:35 PM - 5:00 PM
Session VI: AI at the Bedside (Continued)

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

3:35 PM 

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

4:05 PM Panel Discussion 

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

Panelists: 

Pierre Elias, MD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center 

Karen Wong, MD, MPH, Epic 

Alexander Fedotov, PhD, AstraZeneca 

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
Icahn Medical Institute

1425 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10029

Ground Floor, Goldwurm Auditorium

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 Fireside Chat: Health Leadership in the AI Era
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, NIH All of Us Research

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

1:30 PM 

Can we fulfill the Triple Aims without AI and automation? 

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 - 4:15 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 - 4:25 PM
Closing Remarks, NYAS and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai