2026 Program Agenda
UCLA Health Data Day
Using Artificial Intelligence to Transform Healthcare
2026 Annual Center for AI & SMART Health Symposium
June 16, 2026 - Program Agenda
| 7:30-8:10 AM | Registration + Breakfast |
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| 8:10-8:20 AM | Meeting Kick Off: Alex Bui and Albert Duntugan |
| 8:20-8:30 AM | Welcome Address: Johnese Spisso |
| Keynote | |
| 8:30-9:15 AM | Supporting Guideline Development Through 100 Million Real World Clinical Questions |
| Travis Zack, MD, PhD, CMO at Open Evidence | |
| 9:15-9:25 AM | Break (10 mins) |
| SESSION 1 – Foundation Models | |
| 9:25-9:40 AM | Pretext matters: building foundation models for medical image analysis |
| William Speier, PhD, Co-Director of the UCLA Biomedical AI Research Laborator at UCLA | |
| 9:40-9:55 AM | Foundation Model and Large Sensor Data for Personal Health |
| Yuzhe Yang, PhD, Asst Professor Computational Medicine & Computer Science at UCLA | |
| 9:55-10:10 AM | From Notes to Symptoms: Leveraging NLP for Psychiatric Phenotyping in Spanish Electronic Health Records |
| Clara Frydman, PhD, Graduate Student in Bioinformatics at UCLA | |
| 10:10-10:30 AM | Panel Session, Moderator Alex Bui, PhD |
| SESSION 2 – Democratising AI in Healthcare | |
| 10:30-10:45 AM | nebulaONE |
| Courtney Martin, Director, Clinical Research Applications at UCLA Health & | |
| Yael Berkovich, Director, Enterprise Information Architecture at UCLA Health | |
| 10:45-11:00 AM | AI Clinical Reasoning Tutor RCT |
| Serena Wang, MD, Associate Clinical Professor at UCLA DGSOM | |
| 11:00-11:15 AM | UCLA's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats for health AI development and implementation: Findings from stakeholder engagement with UCLA Health leaders |
| Mackenzie Yore, MD, MS, Civic Science Fellow at UCLA | |
| 11:15-11:35 AM | Panel Session, Moderator Arash Naeim, MD, PhD |
| 11:35-11:45 AM | Break (10mins) |
| Hearst Health-UCLA Center for AI & SMART Health Collaboration | |
| 11:45-11:00 PM | Dr. Katherine Andriole, PhD, Associate Dean for Health Artificial Intelligence Strategy and Innovation |
| 12:00-1:00 PM | Hearst Health Prize Winner Announcement |
| 1:00-2:00 PM | Lunch (1 hour) |
| SESSION 3 – AI in Action: Innovation, Implementation, and Workforce Transformation at UCLA Health | |
| 2:00-2:30 PM | From Benchmark to Bedside: Methods for Evaluating AI in Healthcare |
| Thomas Kingsley, MD, Director of Applied Artificial Intelligence at UCLA | |
| 2:30-3:00 PM | Epic GPT Chart Summarization |
| Paul Lukac, MD, MBA,MS, Chief AI Officer, UCLA Health | |
| 3:00-3:30 PM | Centering the Patient Voice: Uncovering Opportunities for Aligning UCLA Health Patient Care Approaches with National Satisfaction Benchmarks |
| Rukmini Ravi, MS, Patient Experience Researcher at UCLA | |
| Break | |
| 3:30-5:00 PM | Data Product Expo |