Upcoming Events

In collaboration with the Grand Challenges (GCs) at Bridge2AI, the Bridge Center Training, Recruitment, and Mentorship Working Group presents the education module: “Introduction to the Bridge2AI GC Datasets.”Please join us on Thursday, November 7th 2024, at 12 PM PT/3 PM ET for the next lecture in this series “Introduction to GC–Voice Datasets.” Please see attached for more information. We look forward to your attendance!Join the live lecture using this zoom link.

Please join us on Tuesday, November 19th at 12pm-1pm PST/3pm-4pm EST for the discussion forum  “The ROI of Health AI: We need more roads, not Ferraris”, by Dr. Leo Celi. Registration not required! Zoom link: https://uchealth.zoom.us/j/81753058557 Additional details in the attached documents and message below. Bio: Dr. Celi is the principal investigator behind the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC) and its offsprings, MIMIC-CXR, MIMIC-ED, MIMIC-ECHO, and MIMIC-ECG. With close to 100k users worldwide, an open codebase, and close to 10k publications in Google Scholar, the datasets have undoubtedly shaped the course of machine learning in healthcare in the United States and beyond. His group has written 3 open-access textbooks: “Secondary Analysis of Electronic Health Records” in 2016, “Global Health Informatics: Principles of eHealth and mHealth to Improve Quality of Care” in 2017, and “Leveraging Data Science for Global Health” in 2020. The first has been downloaded over 1.7 million times and translated into Mandarin, Spanish, Korean and Portuguese. The group has created two open online courses, “Global Health Informatics'' and “Collaborative Data Science for Healthcare”. Finally, in partnership with hospitals, universities and professional societies across the globe, Dr. Celi and his team have organized over 50 datathons in 22 countries, bringing together students, clinicians, researchers, and engineers to leverage data routinely collected in the process of care. Links to previous recordings and terms of the month:  https://vimeo.com/showcase/11167277 https://bridge2ai.org/blog/

In collaboration with the Grand Challenges (GCs) at Bridge2AI, the Bridge Center Training, Recruitment, and Mentorship Working Group presents the education module: “Introduction to the Bridge2AI GC Datasets.” Please join us on Thursday, November 21st 2024, at 12 PM PT/3 PM ET for the next lecture in this series “Introduction to CM4AI Datasets.”  Join the Live-Lecture using this zoom link: https://uclahs.zoom.us/j/96802224199 The lecture will be available on the Bridge2AI TRM Vimeo within 48 hours after the lecture at the following website: and the Official Bridge2AI YouTube channel found here: Intro Slide Deck Promotional Flyer

Our December 2024 Bridge2AI Leadership Meeting will be an opportunity for researchers and experts to engage in vibrant discussions. The theme of the Fall Leadership Meeting is: Cross Consortium Synergies.Representatives from all the Grand Challenges (GC) and the Bridge Center (BC) will present highlights of their research and facilitate discussions aligned with the theme of the meeting. The meeting will be chaired by Dr. Trey Ideker, UC San Diego, and Dr. LaKaija Johnson, Sage Bionetworks. To view the meeting agenda, please visit this link. Location: Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa 9700 N. Torrey Pines Rd La Jolla, CA 92037 Contact Information Hotel Direct 855-318-7602 Reservations 858-412-0100

Please join us on Tuesday, December 10th at 12pm-1pm PST/3pm-4pm EST for the discussion forum  “Using AI in Patient Care: Emerging Legal Issues”, by Dr. Michelle M. Mello. Registration not required! Zoom link: https://uchealth.zoom.us/j/81753058557 Additional details in the attached documents and message below. Bio: Michelle Mello is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. She conducts empirical research into issues at the intersection of law, ethics, and health policy. She is the author of more than 260 articles on medical liability, public health law, the public health response to COVID-19, pharmaceuticals and vaccines, data ethics and privacy, artificial intelligence, research ethics and governance, and other topics.The recipient of a number of awards for her research, Dr. Mello was elected to the National Academy of Medicine at the age of 40. From 2000 to 2014, she was a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she directed the School’s Program in Law and Public Health. Dr. Mello teaches in the areas of torts, public health law, and health policy. She holds a J.D. from the Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.Phil. from Oxford University, where she was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. from Stanford University.Links to previous recordings and terms of the month: https://youtube.com/@Bridge2AI https://bridge2ai.org/blog/  

Bio: Dr. Hernandez-Boussard is an Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Biomedical Data Sciences, Surgery and Epidemiology & Population Health (by courtesy) at Stanford University. With a rich background and vast expertise in biomedical informatics, health services research, and epidemiology, she is at the forefront of advancing healthcare through the development, evaluation and application of innovative methods. Through her research, she aims to effectively monitor, measure, and predict equitable healthcare outcomes. By leveraging real-world data, her team works diligently to construct a solid body of evidence that can significantly enhance patient outcomes, streamline healthcare delivery, and provide valuable guidance for health policy decisions. In addition, Dr. Hernandez-Boussard focuses intensively on mitigating bias and enhancing equity within artificial intelligence applications in healthcare settings. Through her research and evaluation of AI technology, she seeks to advance healthcare practices while ensuring that diverse populations receive equitable resources, care, and outcomes. ZOOM ID: 817 5305 8557

Bio: Dr. Satrajit Ghosh is the Director of Open Data in Neuroscience Initiative and a Principal Research Scientist at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is a computer scientist and computational neuroscientist by training. He directs the Senseable Intelligence Group (https://sensein.group/) whose research portfolio comprises projects on spoken communication, brain imaging, and informatics to address gaps in scientific knowledge in three areas: the neural basis and translational applications of human spoken communication, machine learning approaches to precision psychiatry and medicine, and preserving information for reproducible research and knowledge generation. He is a PI on NIH projects supported by the BRAIN Initiative and the Common Fund and is a big proponent of open and collaborative science. ZOOM ID: 817 5305 8557

Have you collected or are interested in collecting accelerometry data acquired from wrist-worn devices, like a smartwatch or fitness tracker in your field study? Are you curious about the re-identification risks such data may or may not pose to your participants? This seminar will focus on increasing your awareness and perceptions of a potential risk to participant privacy from the use of wrist-worn motion sensors like activity trackers or smartwatches - specifically privacy risks associated with re-identification from raw accelerometer data. Using two case studies, we examine how raw accelerometry data can be traced back to individuals, the implications for research participant privacy, and strategies to mitigate risks. Join us for a critical discussion on safeguarding participant privacy in digital health research. Bio:  Dr. Camille Nebeker directs the UC San Diego Research Ethics Program and is a professor of public health with appointments in the UC San Diego Design Lab and the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science. In 2018, Dr. Nebeker co-founded the ReCODE Health center, which is dedicated to conducting cutting edge research to inform ethical practices in digital/AI health research – including machine learning and the use of large language models. The ReCODE Health center supports education and consultation services to guide ethical practices in technology-supported health research across diverse research sectors including traditional academic research and, increasingly, the health technology sector. She’s a principal investigator with the Bridge2AI Center’s Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Core.  Dr. Santosh Kumar is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Memphis. He directs the NIH-funded mDOT Center and previously led the NIH-funded MD2K Center of Excellence. He is also co-founder and CEO of CuesHub, PBC. Santosh’s research has resulted in wearable AI for detecting stress, smoking, craving, drug use, brushing, flossing, and stressful conversations from physiological and motion sensors. His team has developed software platforms for  smartphone, smartwatches, and cloud that has been used across the country for collecting hundreds of terabytes of mobile sensor data from over 3,000+ human volunteers in their natural environments as part of various scientific user studies that are being used for understanding privacy risks and developing foundation AI models for wearable sensors. ZOOM ID: 817 5305 8557  

This talk will discuss legal and ethical issues that arise when hospitals implement medical AI, including discussing ambient listening, AI scribing, and AI drafting of communication with patients, as well as more clinical technologies. ZOOM ID: 817 5305 8557 Bio:  Professor Cohen is a leading expert in bioethics, health law, and civil procedure. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, he has advised U.S. Vice President Harris on reproductive rights, discussed medical AI policy with the Korean Congress, and lectured globally. His work appears in top legal, medical, and public health journals, as well as major media outlets. A Harvard Law professor since 2008, he has authored over 200 articles and 20 books on topics like AI in medicine, reproductive technologies, and health policy. He also leads major research initiatives, provides expert testimony, and remains active in litigation and bioethics advisory roles. —- Prof. Cohen is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called “medical ethics”) and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and has advised the U.S. Vice President Harris on reproductive rights, discussed medical AI policy with members of the Korean Congress, and lectured to legal, medical, and industry conferences around the world. His work has been frequently covered by or appeared in media venues such as PBS, NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe. He was the youngest professor on the faculty at Harvard Law School (tenured or untenured) both when he joined the faculty in 2008 (at age 29) and when he was tenured as a full professor in 2013 (at age 34), though not the youngest in history. Prof. Cohen’s current projects relate to medical AI, mobile health and other health information technologies, abortion, reproduction/reproductive technology, the therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs, research ethics, organ transplantation, rationing in law and medicine, health policy, FDA law, translational medicine, medical tourism and many other topics. He is the author of more than 200 articles and chapters and his award-winning work has appeared in leading legal (including the Stanford, Cornell, and Southern California Law Reviews), medical (including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA), bioethics (including the American Journal of Bioethics, the Hastings Center Report), scientific (Science, Cell, Nature Reviews Genetics) and public health (the American Journal of Public Health) journals, as well as Op-Eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic, Time Magazine, and other venues. Cohen is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of more than 20 books. They include: COVID-19 and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2023); Reproductive Technologies and the Law (Caroline Academic Press, 2022);The Future of Medical Device Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Consumer Genetic Technologies: Ethical and Legal Considerations (Cambridge University Press, 2021); Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics (Carolina Academic Press, 2020); Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics (Cambridge University Press, 2020); Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2019); Health Care Law and Ethics (Aspen, 2018); Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics (Cambridge University Press, 2018); Law, Religion, and Health in the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2017); Specimen Science (MIT Press, 2017); Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics (John Hopkins University Press, 2016) The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Care Law (Oxford University Press, 2016); FDA in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies (Columbia University Press, 2015); Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014); Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future (MIT Press, 2014); The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues (Oxford University Press, 2013). For his law school teaching he was awarded the HLS Student Government Teaching and Advising Award in 2017. For the public he created the free online Harvard X class Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics, taken by more than 100,000 students. You can also watch his Tedx talk, Are There Non-Human Persons? Are There Non-Person Humans? He is also the faculty lead on Zero-L, an online course to help law students transition to law school that has been used by more than half of all U.S. law schools. Prior to becoming a professor he served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a lawyer for U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, where he handled litigation in the Courts of Appeals and (in conjunction with the Solicitor General’s Office) in the U.S. Supreme Court. In his spare time (where he can find any!) he still litigates, having authored an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court for in AMP v. Myriad, concerning whether human genes are patent eligible subject matter, a brief that was extensively discussed by the Justices at oral argument. Most recently he has helped with amicus briefs regarding mifepristone (for medical abortion) and gender-affirming care for trans minors. He also provides expert testimony in health law and bioethics litigation. Cohen was selected as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow for the 2012-2013 year and by the Greenwall Foundation to receive a Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics. He is also a Fellow at the Hastings Center, the leading bioethics think tank in the United States as well as being a fellow of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. He leads the Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (PMAIL), which is part of the larger Centre for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL). He is also the principal investigator for Diagnosing in the Home: The Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Home Health and the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR). He previously served as the co-lead on the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law Program of Harvard Catalyst and as one of the key co-investigators on the multi-million dollar Football Players Health Study

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR THE 2025 VOICE AI SYMPOSIUM + HACKATHON SUBMIT ABSTRACTS BY DECEMBER 15TH DISCOUNTED REGISTRATION FOR B2AI MEMBERS (see below for details) We’re excited to invite you to the 2025 Voice AI Symposium and Hackathon, presented by the NIH Common Fund’s Bridge2AI-Voice consortium! From April 22-24 in Tampa, this unique three-day event will bring together researchers, patients, clinician-scientists and top minds in artificial intelligence, bioethics, voice biomarkers, and transformative healthcare for an innovative and interactive hands-on experience. 2025 Voice AI Symposium + Hackathon When: April 22-23 (Symposium) + Apri 24 (Hackathon) Where: Sunny Tampa Florida! At the J.W. Marriott and the Morsani College of Medicine, Taneja College of Pharmacy and Heart Institute, Water Street HIGHLIGHTS FROM LAST YEAR Why Attend? Our theme this year, "Translating AI Research into Reality: Implementing Voice Biomarkers for Transformative Healthcare", will spotlight the real-world applications and ethical considerations of voice AI in healthcare. The symposium will feature prominent industry leaders and renowned bioethics experts, providing a valuable platform for interdisciplinary discussion and learning. Last year, we welcomed speakers from Google, Microsoft, Canary Speech, Sonde Health, Redenlab, NIH, and numerous international startups. Highlights of the Symposium: Interactive Panel Discussions: Engage with leaders and experts on the future of voice AI in healthcare, including ethical considerations and practical applications. Deep Dive Workshops: Hands-on sessions designed to deepen your understanding and skill set in AI and voice biomarkers. Tech Fair: A showcase of the latest tools and innovations in the field, allowing you to explore cutting-edge technologies up close. Hackathon: A full day dedicated to solving real-world healthcare challenges alongside other participants, fostering collaboration and innovation. Poster Competition: A fantastic opportunity for researchers to present their work, share insights, and receive valuable feedback from peers and experts. Networking Event: Connect with professionals across academia, industry, healthcare, and patient advocacy. This is your chance to build valuable connections and explore collaborative opportunities. Secure your place today and join us in Tampa for an unforgettable experience at the forefront of AI and healthcare. B2AI members receive $100 off the cost of registration with the following code: B2AIdiscount! Register Now:  https://www.eventsquid.com/register/26215 Submit Abstracts: https://www.eventsquid.com/register/26217 We look forward to seeing you in April! Warm regards, Jamie Toghranegar   Jamie Toghranegar, SLPD, CCC-SLP, CBIS Research Project Manager, Bridge2AI Voice Speech Language Pathologist USF Health Morsani College of Medicine University of South Florida 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. Tampa, FL 33612

All Hands Conference Our May 2025 All Hands Conference will be an opportunity for researchers and experts to engage in vibrant discussions. The NIH Common Fund's Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2Al) program will propel biomedical research forward by setting the stage for widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (Al) that tackles complex biomedical challenges beyond human intuition. The biomedical research community generates a wealth of data, but most of these data are not suitable for machine learning because they are incomplete. By bringing technological and biomedical experts together with social scientists and humanists, the Bridge2Al program will help bring solutions to this deficit. Open House The Bridge2Al Open House will focus on collaborative approaches, learn about current considerations, explore new datasets, and discuss other key issues related to bridging the gap from biomedical information to Al. Sessions will be centered around the activities of the Bridge2Al Data Generation Projects, which stemmed from Grand Challenges put forth by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 📋 Check out Digital Program

Join us for the second annual Bridge2AI Open House on Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Rockville, MD! This event provides an amazing opportunity for scientists, ethicists, coders, community members, and practitioners with diverse expertise and experience levels to come together to build unique solutions that will help solve a range of relevant problems. The Bridge2AI Open House will focus on key issues related to bridging the gap from biomedical information to AI. Sessions will be centered around the activities of the Bridge2AI Data Generation Projects, which stem from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Grand Challenges. Register By: May 16, 2025 Register Here