19th Annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities
"Big Data to Enhancing Health Equity"
June 6 & 7, 2024
The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
Thursday, June 6, 2024 | ||
WELCOME AND KEYNOTE SESSION | ||
7:30 am | Continental Breakfast & Registration Check-in | MET Lobby & |
| 8:30 – 8:35 a.m. | Conference Welcome Riyaz Basha, PhD, Director of Research, Institute for Health Disparities, Professor, Pediatrics and Woman's Health, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, UNTHSC | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 8:35 – 8:45 a.m. | Texas Center for Health Disparities and Institute for Health Disparities Welcome Jamboor Vishwanatha, PhD, Founding Director, Texas Center for Health Disparities, Executive Director and Vice President, Institute for Health Disparities, Regents Professor, School of Biomedical Science, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, UNTHSC | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 8:45 – 8:55 a.m. | Division of Research and Innovation Welcome Brian Gladue, PhD, Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation, UNTHSC | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 8:55 – 9:10 a.m. | Institutional Welcome Sylvia Trent-Adams, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP, President, UNTHSC | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 9:10 – 9:15 a.m. | Introduction to Keynote Speaker Harlan P. Jones, PhD, Director of Diversity Training, Institute for Health Disparities, Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Science, Department for Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, UNTHSC | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 9:15 – 10:15 a.m. | Keynote Speaker Anil Shanker, PhD Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, Meharry Medical College | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
Session 1: Ethical AI and Data Bias in AI/ML | ||
| 10:30 – 10:35 a.m. | Session Introduction Sterling B. Ortega, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Science, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Genetics, UNTHSC | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 10:35 – 11:20 a.m. | Big Data and Civil Society: Duty, Trust, and Equity in Challenging Times Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, FACMI, FAXE, Professor of Medicine and Philosophy, Director of Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Institute for Bioethics | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 11:25 – 12:10 p.m. | A Racially Unbiased Algorithm for Breast Cancer Detection Lakshman S. Tamil, PhD, FNAI, FOPTICA, FEMA Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, MedCognetics Inc. | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
12:15 – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch & Roundtable Discussions | EAD |
Session 2: Community Engagement in AI/ML | ||
| 1:50 – 1:55 p.m. | Session Introduction Malinee Neelamegam, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, Department of Population and Community Health, UNTHSC | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 1:55 – 2:25 p.m. | Empowering Communities: Ensuring Fairness and Interpretability in AI research Usha Sambamoorthi, PhD Professor & Associate Dean, UNT Systems College of Pharmacy, UNTHSC | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 2:25 – 2:40 p.m. | Revising Indigenous Genomic Data Futures for Health Equity Krystal Tsosie, PhD, MPA, MA Assistant Professor, School of Life Science, Arizona State University | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 2:40 – 3:50 p.m. | Break | |
3:50– 4:30 p.m. | Panel Discussion | MET 124/125 |
| 4:30 – 5:50 p.m. | Poster Presentation Session Poster viewing is available throughout the day. | EAD 255 |
| 5:50 pm | Wrap-up and Adjourn | EAD 255 |
Friday, June 7, 2024 | ||
Session 3: AI/ML to Advance Health Equity | ||
7:30 am | Continental Breakfast | MET 109-111 |
| 8:30 – 8:35 a.m. | Session Introduction Mark W. Cunningham, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Science, Department of Physiology and Anatomy, UNTHSC | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 8:35 – 9:20 a.m. | Through the Lens of Innovations: AI-Enhanced Healthcare Solutions for Enhanced Outcomes and Health Equity Nawar Shara, PhD, Director of the Center of Biostatistics, Information, and Data Science, Associate Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University, MedStar Health Institute | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 9:25 – 10:10 a.m. | Large, Multi-Modal Dataset Development for Validation of Equitable AI Models Hari M. Trivedi, MD, Assistant Professor Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
10:10 – 10:30 a.m. | Break | |
| 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. | Panel Discussion Nawar Shara, PhD - Georgetown University, Medstar Health Institute Hari M. Trivedi, MD - Emory University, School of Medicine Wyatt P. Bensken, PhD - OCHIN | MET 124/125 Auditorium |
| 11:15– 12:00 p.m. | Abstract Awards Announcement, Wrap-up and Adjourn | |