Date: Wednesday July 28, 11 AM CT, 12 PM ET

Join NVIDIA, Mark III, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, and Texas Children's Hospital for an insightful and practical panel discussion on the future of healthcare, ranging from AI in Research to Innovation and the Smart Hospital of the future. 

Interested in building out an AI Center of Excellence and shared platform for Research?  Hear about how St Jude Children's Research Hospital leverages AI/ML to fight childhood disease and strategies and lessons learned that may be helpful for building your own AI Center of Excellence.

Planning for the Smart Hospital of the future for your institution?  Hear from the Innovation team at Texas Children's Hospital on how they are thinking about their Smart Hospital strategy across their hospitals and how they recently used a "Hospital of the Future" innovation hackathon coinciding with the groundbreaking of a new state of the art hospital to spur ideas and actively engage the community and their teams.

Speakers:

Dr Franz Parkins, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Computational Scientist

Dr Franz Parkins is a computational engineer for the Research Information Services group within the Data Center at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He is an ML/AI specialist with doctoral research experience in perception inferencing for temporal visual data.

Melanie Lowther, Texas Children's Hospital, Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Melanie Lowther is Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Texas Children’s Hospital with responsibility for innovation, intelligent process automation, and eHealth telemedicine. In her 13 years at Texas Children’s, she’s become particularly mindful to the intersection of people, process, and technology. With a background in process engineering and trained as a Master Black Belt in Lean/Six Sigma, Melanie is the point-person for innovation work at Texas Children’s.

Dr Anthony Costa, NVIDIA, Healthcare Senior Alliances Manager - Analytics

Anthony is a computational scientist-turned healthcare data science and medtech developer. He completed his Ph.D. at Purdue with work in CFD, unsupervised methods for complex mixture analysis, and statistical mechanics. During his postdoc he was a de facto full time MPI and CUDA engineer working on non-equilibrium self-assembly processes and molecular dynamics. He has spent the last 7.5 years at the Mount Sinai Health System leading groups in translational artificial intelligence research and medical technology innovation. As alliance/developer relations manager at NVIDIA, he works broadly within the healthcare data analytics ecosystem with a particular focus on NLP and conversational AI.