Dr Kaushal’s lecture focused on how AI is dominating the healthcare IT landscape, how it is created and being implemented across various areas of healthcare, including imaging, and how health systems can meaningfully capture the vast quantities of clinical data that is required for research. Other key topics included the importance of ensuring guidance and regulations that govern the ethical use of AI in healthcare and the significance of investments driving the generation, implementation, and meaningful use of novel AI technologies. Dr Kaushal is the senior associate dean of clinical research, chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences, and the Nanette Laitman Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM).
She is also the physician-in-chief of population health sciences at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. As the principal investigator of INSIGHT Clinical Research Network (CRN), Dr. Kaushal has built the US’s largest urban clinical database of 22 million patients with trillions of medical, biological, and social data points integrated for national research use.
During his introductory note, Dr Javaid Sheikh, Dean of WCM-Q, said: The lecture was attended by a diverse audience of health professionals from across Qatar and overseas, including Qatar Foundation, Hamad Medical Corporation, Sidra Medicine, WCM, WCM-Q, and the director of the Public Health Department at the Ministry of Public Health, S.