Artificial Intelligence Transforming Healthcare
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AI has become one of the biggest buzz topics, thanks to developments like the chatbot ChatGPT, but it’s also being embraced by the healthcare industry for various uses, from delivering new treatments to diagnostics. Over the past decade, AI technology has made steady inroads into healthcare, quietly improving patient care without engendering much excitement. Now suddenly, everyone is talking about AI.
Jayender Jagadeesan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, will be our keynote speaker, joined by Tom Calef, Chief Technology Officer, Activ Surgical, Adam Sachs, CEO, Vicarious Surgical, and DeLin Shen, Sr. Director, R&D Software Engineering, Medtronic. Hear these industry leaders discuss why AI tools and trends will be necessary for the healthcare industry. Following the overview, we will have an open moderated Q&A discussion where audience comments and questions will be essential to the conversation.
Keynote Speakers
Jayender Jagadeesan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Research Associate, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Associate Member, Broad Institute
Jay’s research interest focuses on improving the ability of the surgeon intraoperatively. This involves three main areas of interest – surgical navigation to improve the surgeon’s visualization, robotics to improve their dexterity, and machine learning to improve their computational ability.
Program Moderator
Simon Johnson, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, MedAcuity
Simon Johnson leads the go-to-market strategy, sales, and marketing for MedAcuity, a software engineering firm that partners with MedTech, Life Sciences, and Robotics companies to address the business and technical challenges inherent in developing complex software-intensive solutions.
Panel
Tom Calef, Chief Technology Officer, Activ Surgical
Tom leads Activ Surgical's vision to deliver breakthrough innovation in surgery, taking advantage of deep learning and data science, envisioning a future of collaborative surgery with surgical intelligence empowering scopes and robots to see what humans cannot see.
Adam Sachs, CEO, Vicarious Surgical
Adam Sachs Co-founded Vicarious Surgical in 2014. As an MIT-trained roboticist he is revolutionizing minimally invasive surgery through the development of proprietary surgical robotics. Adam is passionate about improving care for patients and enhancing the work environment for surgeons while helping the bottom line of hospitals.
DeLin Shen, Ph.D., Senior Director, R&D Software Engineering, Surgical Robotics, Medtronic
DeLin is a seasoned engineering leader passionate about science, technology, and their applications. Over the past 18 years, he has served in various R&D roles in medical devices, focused on surgical robotics.
Join us as we reflect on this timely overview of the future of AI in Healthcare.
Who should attend?
C-level executives, board members, investors, and other senior leaders who want a better understanding of AI, one of the most exciting and promising technologies in health care.
Speaker Bios
Jayender Jagadeesan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Research Associate, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Associate Member, Broad Institute
Jay is Lead Investigator at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Jay completed his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at the Indian Institute of Technology and a Doctorate (Ph.D.) from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. After that, Jay joined the Brigham and Women’s Hospital as a postdoctoral research scholar. Jay’s research interest focuses on improving the ability of the surgeon intraoperatively. This involves three main areas of interest – surgical navigation to improve the surgeon’s visualization, robotics to improve their dexterity, and machine learning to improve their computational ability.
To improve the surgeon’s visualization, Jay has developed navigation algorithms with deformation compensation for tracking and displaying the instrument tip position and shape in a 3D patient-specific anatomical display. This navigation system has been used for clinical applications, including endoscopic biopsy of pancreatic tumors, lung wedge resection, breast conserving surgery, parathyroidectomy, and ureteroscopy. Through the use of these navigation algorithms, the surgeon can precisely localize the tumor and surrounding structures to ensure complete tumor resection while avoiding the sensitive structures and compensating for tissue deformation. Jay has also been advancing cutting edge research in the field of virtual, mixed, and augmented reality to enhance the surgeon’s visualization.
As part of his research focus on medical robotics, Jay has developed an active steerable catheter and control algorithms to perform haptics-enabled, robot-assisted catheter insertion for angioplasty and cardiac ablation. This has further laid the foundation for two current projects involving the development of a concentric tube robot for kidney stone treatment and a robotic device with associated visual-control algorithms for ICE-guided cardiac ablation.
His third area of interest involving machine learning has led to the development of fast and robust deep-learning based segmentation and registration algorithms for intraoperative use. These algorithms minimize the computational burden for the surgeon while providing context-specific information intraoperatively.
Jay is currently the Principal Investigator on 3 NIH R01 grants and 1 Siemens funded grant and also serves as a Co-investigator on the AT-NCIGT P41 grant. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Western University and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Tom Calef, Chief Technology Officer, Activ Surgical
Tom is a highly accomplished medical roboticist and seasoned engineering leader who has delivered breakthrough innovation in surgical robotics. Previously, he was the Director of Advanced Robotics at Medrobotics, where he led the development and release of the first flexible surgical robotics platform, grew the engineering team from two to 50 people, and guided numerous surgical robotics products through 510k clearance. He holds both a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.
Adam Sachs, CEO, Vicarious Surgical
Adam Sachs is CEO of Vicarious Surgical, a surgical robotics company he co-founded in 2014. As an MIT-trained roboticist who is revolutionizing minimally invasive surgery through the development of proprietary surgical robotics, Adam is passionate about improving care for patients and enhancing the work environment for surgeons, while helping the bottom line of hospitals. His hands-on approach and vision as CEO includes a focus on the development and commercialization of the Vicarious Surgical robotic system with the goals of ease of use, full access inside the body, and increased visualization for surgeons, utilizing a single small incision and providing 360-degree visibility inside the human body. In 2021, under Sachs’ leadership, Vicarious Surgical began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
DeLin Shen, Ph.D., Senior Director, R&D Software Engineering, Surgical Robotics, Medtronic
DeLin is a seasoned engineering leader passionate about science, technology, and their applications. Over the past 18 years, he has served in various R&D roles in medical devices, with a dozen of those years focused on surgical robotics. Currently, DeLin is Senior Director of R&D with Medtronic's Surgical Robotics business, where he led software and controls teams responsible for the launch of Medtronic’s Hugo Robot. Previously, he was the Director of R&D for Stryker’s Surgical Robotics business, where he led engineering teams in multiple surgical robotic programs. He was a University Faculty member teaching Quantum Chemistry & Thermodynamics; and has been an adjunct professor teaching Computer Science and Project Management. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from Beijing Normal University and Ph.D. from York University, Toronto, Canada.
Simon Johnson, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, MedAcuity
Simon leads the go-to-market strategy, sales and marketing for MedAcuity, a software engineering firm which partners with MedTech, Life Sciences companies and Robotics companies to address the business and technical challenges inherent in developing complex software-intensive solutions.
Prior to that he built the Client Partner team at Mobiquity Inc, an industry leading Digital Consultancy responsible for strategic client development and was the Senior Vice President of Client Services at GreenPages Technologies Inc, responsible for driving the company's Services Revenue growth leading to its acquisition by Abry Partners in December 2020.
Simon has held leadership Consulting Services and Sales roles in NA , LATAM and EMEA. He served as Worldwide Senior Director of Professional Services in Seagate’s Cloud Systems and Solutions group and Director of Service Management and Pre-sales at GlassHouse Technologies, running the company’s Americas Pre-Sales and Practice Lead teams across all market verticals, following a consulting career in the company's EMEA region.
He holds a BSc in Information Systems Management from Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom.
