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Panel: When upscaling AI in precision health and research-what are the pitfalls and keys to success? Passed

Wednesday May 21, 2025 16:10 - 16:50 F2

Moderator: Charlotta Ljungman
Panelists: Gunilla Jacobson, Magnus Boman, Malin Eklund, Marco Perez, Max Herulf, Minna Sandberg, Päivi Östling, Stefan Jovinge, Ziad Obermeyer

Track: AI in Precision health

The California/US way of supporting innovation and research contra Sweden? What are the differences and what could be the better way? How do we ensure scientific quality of AI in precisions health? Whose responsibility is it to make sure that all infrastructure is in place and that we are working long term not with projects only?

Language

English

Topic

Future Health and Care

Seminar type

Live + On site

Lecture type

Panel

Objective of lecture

Orientation

Level of knowledge

Advanced

Target audience

Management/decision makers
Politicians
Researchers
Care professionals
Healthcare professionals

Keyword

Actual examples (good/bad)
Benefits/effects
Innovation/research

Lecturers

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Charlotta Ljungman Moderator

Senior Consultant in Cardiology, Associate Professor, Head of Precision Medicine
Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Head of Precision Medicine at Sahlgrenska University Hospital
Senior Consultant in Cardiology
Associate Professor

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Gunilla Jacobson Panelist

Director of Translational Medicine, Dept of Radiology, School of Medicine
Stanford University

Director of Translational Medicine, DeSimone Lab
Technical and Strategic Director, Cyclotron, Rad / Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics

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Magnus Boman Panelist

Professor in AI within Health at Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska Institutet

I am a professor of AI within Health at Karolinska Institutet, at the Department of Medicine, Solna, Division of Clinical Epidemiology.

I lead the AI@KI efforts to support KI researchers in all matters AI, since 2020. I work as an advisor on research methodology involving artificial intelligence and machine learning in Clinicum.

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Malin Eklund Panelist

Programme manager
Vinnova

Working at the Health dep. at Vinnova with international collaborations, precision health and health data incl EHDS. Delegate in the 1 Million Genomes Initiative (1+MG) and co-lead of the work package for innovation in the European Partnership for Personalised Medicine (EP PerMed)

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Marco Perez Panelist

Associate Professor of Medicine
Stanford University Medical School

Associate Professor at Stanford University
Cardiac electrophysiologist at at Stanford Health Care
PI of the Clinical Coordinating Center at Stanford University for the REACT-AF
co-PI of the Apple Heart Study

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Max Herulf Panelist

Ehälsomyndigheten

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Minna Sandberg Panelist

Director
SwenodeAI

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Päivi Östling Panelist

Senior Researcher, Group Leader , SciLifeLab,Dept of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska CCC project unit, Karolinska University Hospital
SciLifeLab, Karolinska Institutet

Päivi Östling, Associate Professor, has extensive research experience in precision cancer medicine (PCM) and established a functional precision medicine (fPM) platform at SciLifeLab, Karolinska Institutet. The research team generates individualized drug profiles for solid and hematological cancers. She has been a Scientific Lead of Precision Medicine at SciLifeLab, with the aim to enable next-generation precision medicine infrastructure. She is part of the Swedish node for the European DIGITAL-project TEF-Health, supporting Health AI providers. Päivi holds key positions in Swedish Life Science, including SWELife, Cancer Research KI, and Genomic Medicine Sweden. Her research and leadership roles provide valuable insights into precision medicine, health data, and AI.

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Stefan Jovinge Panelist

President of Research, Education, Development and Innovation at Scania University Hospitals, Adjunct Professor at Stanford University
Skånes universitetssjukhuset, Stanford University

Ziad Obermeyer Panelist

Associate professor and Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor, Emergency Physician
UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Associate Professor, Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley School of Public Health