
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 ObermeyerTrack: 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?
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
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.
Marco Perez Lecturer
Associate Professor of Medicine
Stanford University Medical School
Maria Sakalaki Lecturer
MD, PhD
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
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