Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare Delivery: Navigating the Clinical Reality and Expectations - March 26

Senior Director, Clinical Transformation, AAMC

Keith A. Horvath is Sr. Director, Clinical Transformation in Health Care Affairs at the Association of American Medical Colleges. Most recently he was Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Program for the National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health and Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery at Suburban Hospital, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Prior to this position he was an Associate Professor of Surgery and a Program Director at Northwestern University, Chicago Illinois. Trained in general and cardiothoracic surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. Horvath is a graduate of the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. 

As Sr. Director, Clinical Transformation he works with a team dedicated to improving outcomes at academic medical centers and their affiliates across the US. This includes assisting institutions shifting to value-based care as directed via CMS/CMMI alternative payment models and bundling initiatives. He has a longstanding interest in clinical care improvement with over 20 years’ service on the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database; Coding & Nomenclature; and Health Policy Committees. This interest extends to clinical training as he serves as the AAMC Representative to the ACGME and co-leads the AAMC Group on Resident Affairs.

Professionally, Dr. Horvath has represented the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons to CMS, FDA, RUC, PEAC and Congress. A founding member of the Maryland Cardiac Surgery Quality Initiative, he has also served the Maryland Health Care Commission as a member of its Clinical Advisory Group that rewrote the legislation that governs cardiac care for the State. Additionally he has served on over 20 national committees, 10 editorial boards, and garnered over 25 million dollars in research funding.

Finally, Dr. Horvath has performed over 6,000 cardiac operations, has authored and coauthored over 280 publications and logged over 89,000 miles watching, playing and coaching soccer games

Dr. Mahmud serves as a preventive medicine resident at Stony Brook University, following the completion of his family medicine residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC). He obtained his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and his Master of Public Health from Columbia University, with a specialization in Health Policy and Management. Dr. Mahmud played a central role in establishing the Health Justice Track at the UMMC Family & Community Medicine residency program, aimed at educating residents on health disparities, and received the Resident Teacher of the Year award in recognition of his contributions. Dr. Mahmud served as Co-chair of Communications at SAPHA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing public health issues impacting the South Asian community in the US and was responsible for multi-channel media campaigns highlighting relevant public health issues.  He has been appointed as an Associate Editor for AJPM Focus where he oversees clinical preventive medicine, integrative medicine, and lifestyle medicine submissions. Currently, he is pursuing a graduate certificate in clinical informatics at Stony Brook University and engaged in projects that explore the utilization of natural language processing in primary care.

Dr. Rehman is the Chief of Education & Founding Director of Academic Practice at the Phoenix VA Healthcare Systems. He also serves as the Chair/Professor of Department of Informatics, Professor of Humanism & Internal Medicine, Chair of Admissions Committee & Graduate Medical Education Committee at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. He helped founded the Informatics fellowship and is a frequent speaker at the Informatics association’s meetings. He is also serving in the GRA Steering committee and the Chair of Policy & Advocacy Committee of International Association on Communication in Healthcare (EACH) and American College of Physicians (ACP) AZ Chapter. He has served as the President of the Society of General Internal Medicine Mountain Region; Vice-President of the Academy on Communications in Healthcare (ACH); & Conference Chair for the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH). He has been awarded the Master of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of EACH, AMIA And ACH, the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society best teacher award and Gold Humanism Honor Society award. He has received >100 teaching/mentoring awards & published hundreds of articles/book chapters.

Executive Director of Clinical Data and Analytics, UChicago Medicine

Mary Kate Selling, MHA, is the Executive Director of Clinical Data and Analytics. Reporting to the System CMO, her focus is on turning data into action. Her portfolio includes Data Science, Clinical Analytics & Visualization, Regulatory Reporting, Health Information Management (HIM) and Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI). In addition, she oversees the Data and Analytics Steering Committee focused on Data Strategy and Governance. She also serves as co-chair of the Analytics Intervention Unit which provides strategic direction and operational support for all predictive and interventional models that impact patient care. In particular, the AIU has served to set standards around validation and evaluation for model bias as part of the critical process when turning on AI within the clinical setting. She has her B.S. in Clinical Laboratory Science from Marquette University and MHA from the University of Minnesota.