Keynote speakers

Jason Fries is a research scientist at Stanford University, working on training and evaluating multimodal foundation models for healthcare. His research focuses on training and evaluating foundation models for healthcare and is positioned at the intersection of computer science, medical informatics, and hospital systems. Much of his work explores using electronic health record (EHR) data to contextualize human health, leveraging longitudinal patient information to inform model development and evaluation.

Alison O'Neil is a Principal Scientist in the AI Research Team at Canon Medical Research Europe. Her research focuses on machine learning techniques for healthcare applications for medical imaging, natural language processing, and electronic health record data. Her research has covered techniques for medical image registration, segmentation of anatomy and pathology, anatomical landmark detection, and more recently prediction of outcomes from clinical data and the extraction of semantic information from medical text.

Workshop on NLP in mental health

On Monday June 16th, there will be a workshop on “NLP in mental health care and research”, organised by Angus Roberts and Rob Stewart from DataMind - The Health Data Research Hub for Mental Health (see more).

Panel: Opportunities and challenges in LLMs for health research: A multidisciplinary perspective on surfacing social inequalities, bias detection, and mitigation

This panel (tbc) will bring together experts in bias mitigation, psychology, health services research, and behavioural science to critically assess how LLMs can be designed to create more equitable health interventions. It will be organised by Julia Ive and Paulina Bondaronek from UCL.

Industry panel: Challenges in AI deployment

Industry panel this year will focus on Challenges of deploying AI/NLP in the NHS/health systems. Panellists will be from industry, NHS, regulatory bodies and patient groups.

PhD Forum: Healthcare Text Analytics

Current PhD students and early career researchers will present their on-going research and discuss it with a panel of experts, including the keynote speakers and patient representatives.

Presentations, demos and posters

Throughout the conference, we will have presentations from the community across the UK and internationally, including talks, software demos and posters.