Join us on Thursday, December 18, 2025, at 12:00 PM PT/3:00 PM ET for the lecture: “Navigating Ethical AI in Healthcare: Protecting Consumers and Patients” with Adela Grand, PhD. This will be the 6th installment in the Bridge2AI Training, Recruitment, and Mentoring (TRM) 2025-26 Lecture Series Large Language Model (LLM) Module.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain why ethical principles are essential in the design and evaluation of AI-based mental health applications.
• Identify and critique key components of the FUTURE-AI framework for ensuring trustworthy and human-centered AI systems.
• Apply the FUTURE-AI framework to evaluate an AI-based mental mobile app for robustness.

Biography:

Dr. Adela Grando, PhD, FAMIA, FACMI, is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Arizona State University and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Mayo Clinic. At ASU, her research focuses on healthcare information technology, patient-centered technologies, and mobile health, with an emphasis on privacy-preserving data sharing and clinical decision support. She completed postdoctoral training at UCSD’s Division of Biomedical Informatics and at Oxford and Edinburgh Universities through UK Cancer Research, following her PhD training in Spain.

Dr. Grando has an extensive publication record in leading venues, including AI in Medicine, the Int. J. of Med. Inform., and Applied Clin. Inform. She previously served as Associate Editor for the Health Informatics Journal and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics and AI in Medicine. She is recognized as a Fellow of both the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA) and the American College of Medical Informatics (FACMI).