CPHAI Symposium 2025

AI in Healthcare: From Research to Real-World Clinical Impact

HANOVER INN, GRAND BALLROOM

Friday, APRIL 18th

CPHAI Symposium 2025 Overview

Join us for the Annual Dartmouth Symposium on Precision Health & AI on April 18, 2025, at the Hanover Inn Grand Ballroom. This year’s symposium brings together leaders in AI, clinicians, and biomedical researchers to explore the latest advancements in AI-driven healthcare.


Keynote speakers include Dr. Pranav Rajpurkar (Harvard University, Forbes 30 Under 30, MIT Tech Review Innovator Under 35) and Dr. Nigam Shah (Stanford University, Chief Data Scientist for Stanford Health Care), who will share their expertise on AI in medical imaging, clinical data interpretation, and ethical AI deployment in healthcare. The event will open with remarks by Dr. Duane Compton, the Dean of Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine and include discussions on AI leadership, research frontiers, and industry collaborations.

Registration

Register now for the CPHAI Symposium to engage with leading experts in AI and healthcare. With limited spaces, this event offers unique learning and networking opportunities. Contribute to the future of precision health by simply filling out the form below.

Venue

Hanover Inn Dartmouth
Two East Wheelock 
Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755

Join us on April 18th at the Hanover Inn, Grand Ballroom.

Program

Please note that this Symposium will take place as an in-person event in Hanover and will not live-stream content for virtual participation. The meeting content will be recorded and made available on a request basis from registered members after the conference.

All presentations are scheduled to be live, in-person presentations at the date and time specified below unless noted otherwise.

Friday, APRIL 18th

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Registration and Breakfast

Opening Remarks by Dean Duane Compton

Dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

9:00 - 9:15 AM

CPHAI Annual Update by Saeed Hassanpour

Director of Center for Precision Health & AI

9:15 - 9: 45 AM

Barry D. Pressman, M.D., D’64, M’65, Visiting Lectureship by Pranav Rajpurkar

Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science, MIT Tech Review Innovator Under 35, Assistant Professor at Harvard University

9:45 - 10:45 AM

10:45 - 11:00 AM

Coffee Break

Leading AI Innovation: Strategies, Challenges & Opportunities at Dartmouth/DH

  • David Kotz (Dartmouth Provost)

  • Steven Bernstein (Chief Research Officer at Dartmouth Health)

  • Susan Roberts (Senior Associate Dean of Foundational Research at Geisel School of Medicine)

  • Peter Solberg (Chief Health Information Officer at Dartmouth Health)

  • Keith Paulsen (Robert A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering)

  • Moderator: Michael Whitfield (Chair of Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth)

11:00 - 12:30 PM

12:30 - 1:30 PM

Lunch

Innovation Highlight at Dartmouth Health: AI for Clinical Impact

Katharina Schmolly

Primary Care Resident Physician at Dartmouth Health & Founder at ZebraMD

1:30 - 2:00 PM

AI in Healthcare: Current Landscape and Research Frontiers

  • Timothy Burdick (Associate Chief Research Officer for Informatics at Dartmouth Health)

  • David Naeger (Chair of Radiology at Dartmouth Health)

  • Margaret Karagas (Chair of Epidemiology at Dartmouth)

  • Parth Shah (Director of Genome Informatics at Dartmouth Health)

  • Soroush Vosoughi (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College)

  • Moderator: Indrani Bhattacharya (CPHAI Investigator and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth)

2:00 - 3:30 PM

3:30 - 3:45 PM

Coffee Break

Keynote Lecture by Nigam Shah

Chief Data Scientist for Stanford Healthcare, Professor at Stanford University

3:45 - 4:45 PM

Dartmouth-Industry Partnerships: Real-World Breakthroughs

Pedram Hosseini

AI Lead Scientist at Lavita.AI

4:45 - 5:15 PM

Closing Remarks by Saeed Hassanpour

Director of Center for Precision Health & AI

5:15 - 5:30 PM

5:30 - 6:30 PM

Reception

Keynote Presentations

Pranav Rajpurkar, PhD

Harvard University

Dr. Pranav Rajpurkar is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and Co-founder of a2z Radiology AI. A Stanford-trained computer scientist, his research focuses on developing AI systems that match physician-level expertise through multi-modal clinical data interpretation. At Harvard, his lab develops frameworks for evaluating and advancing medical AI in clinical language models and medical imaging. His research includes over 100 publications in journals like Nature, NEJM, and Nature Medicine, garnering over 35,000 citations. Prof. Rajpurkar has educated over 84,000 students through his AI in Medicine courses at Harvard and Coursera. Named among MIT Tech Review's Innovators Under 35 (2023), Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science (2022), and Nature Medicine's Early-career Researchers To Watch (2022), he continues to advance the integration of AI in clinical practice.

Nigam H. Shah, MBBS, PhD

Stanford University

Dr. Nigam Shah, Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford, Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Co-Director of the Stanford Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging, and Associate Dean for Research and Chief Data Scientist at Stanford Health Care. Dr. Shah's work focuses on AI's ethical and practical implementation in healthcare. His research aims to bring AI into clinical use safely, ethically, and cost-effectively. Dr. Shah is an inventor on eight patents, has authored over 300 scientific publications, and has co-founded three companies. He was inducted into the American College of Medical Informatics in 2015 and the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2016. He holds an MBBS from Baroda Medical College, India, a PhD from Penn State University and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University.

Opening Remarks

Duane Compton, PhD

Dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Guest Speakers

Pedram Hosseini, PhD

AI Lead Scientist at Lavita.AI

Katharina Schmolly, MD

Primary Care Resident Physician at Dartmouth Health & Founder at ZebraMD

Research Panel

Timothy Burdick, MD, MBA, MSc

Associate Chief Research Officer for Informatics at Dartmouth Health

David Naeger, MD, FACR, FAAR

Chair of Radiology at Dartmouth Health

Charles Thomas Jr, MD

Chair of Radiation Oncology at Dartmouth Health

Margaret Karagas, PhD

Chair of Epidemiology at Dartmouth College

Parth Shah, MD

Director of Genome Informatics, Hematology, Dartmouth Health

Soroush Vosoughi, PhD

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College

Indrani Bhattacharya, PhD

Moderator

CPHAI Investigator and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth College

Leadership Panel

David Kotz, PhD

Dartmouth Provost

Steven Bernstein, MD

Chief Research Officer at Dartmouth Health

Susan Roberts, PhD

Senior Associate Dean of Foundational Research at Geisel School of Medicine

Peter Solberg, MD

Chief Health Information Officer at Dartmouth Health

Keith Paulsen, PhD

Robert A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering

Moderator

Michael Whitfield, PhD

Chair of Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth College