Header image for Vitalis 2025
Profile image for Panel: AI in Precision Health in the Bay Area - From Algorithm to Impact

Panel: AI in Precision Health in the Bay Area - From Algorithm to Impact Passed

Wednesday May 21, 2025 11:00 - 11:45 F2

Lecturers: Gunilla Jacobson, Marco Perez, Maria Sakalaki, Stefan Jovinge, Ziad Obermeyer

Track: AI in Precision health

The Bay Area around San Francisco has two world-class universities and hospitals in precision health and AI, as well as many start-ups and several of the largest tech companies in health. How does research in AI in precision health translate to an impact for patient health in the Bay Area? What can Sweden learn from success stories (and failures) of bringing safe and responsible AI in precision health to good use for patients?

Language

English

Topic

Future Health and Care

Seminar type

Live + On site

Lecture type

Presentation

Objective of lecture

Orientation

Level of knowledge

Intermediate

Target audience

Management/decision makers
Politicians
Researchers
Care professionals
Healthcare professionals

Keyword

Actual examples (good/bad)
Innovation/research
Ethics

Lecturers

Profile image for Gunilla Jacobson

Gunilla Jacobson Lecturer

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

Dr. Jacobson has a PhD in organic chemistry from Uppsala University in Sweden, has held several academic positions at Stanford University and the Karolinska Institute, and is a Docent in Chemistry at Uppsala University. She has 25 years’ experience of translating research from academia, industry, and government laboratories to scalable products. This includes translation of diagnostic probes to first-in-human studies under FDA approval.

Within the Department of Radiology at Stanford, she leads several initiatives focused on innovations in the areas of precision medicine and precision health, with the goal of developing methods for early detection of disease, targeted and specific treatments of disease, and ways to predict disease to sustain health and prevent illness.

Profile image for Marco Perez

Marco Perez Lecturer

Associate Professor of Medicine
Stanford University Medical School

Maria Sakalaki Lecturer

MD, PhD
Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Profile image for Stefan Jovinge

Stefan Jovinge Lecturer

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

Ziad Obermeyer Lecturer

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