Leveraging AI for Research & Innovation - August 27

Mark Cohen, MD, FACS, FSSO is the Dean of the Carle Illinois College of Medicine and Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer for Carle Health. He is a practicing surgical oncologist and endocrine surgeon and a tenured professor in the College of Medicine and the Founder Professor in the Department of Bioengineering in the Grainger School of Engineering.  His research covers several areas including novel approaches to tissue engineering utilizing stem cells; creation of a novel class of anticancer drug compounds that target chaperone proteins; nanoparticle drug-delivery systems for cancer and bone regeneration; and use of mixed reality and AI/ML technologies to improve telemedicine, clinical care delivery as well as health care workforce training and education. He has been continuously funded by the NCI (NIH) for 17 years and his work has also been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Komen Foundation, the American Cancer Society, the Department of Defense, and even NASA. He has published over 135 peer reviewed manuscripts and has held multiple leadership roles in national medical and surgical societies and is a founding member of the international holomedicine association. He is also a serial entrepreneur founding 5 companies in the digital health, medical device, and medical therapeutics sectors and has mentored over 300 students and faculty on innovation projects and startups. He is the author of a textbook on Surgical Innovation in Academic Medicine published through Springer-Nature. For his work in AI and mixed reality applications in medical education he was awarded the 2019 Distinguished Faculty Award for Innovation and the 2021 Provost Award for Innovation in Education at the University of Michigan. He co-leads the collaborative NSF IUCRC Center grant focused on Medical Innovations in eXtended Reality (MIXR) between University of Maryland Research Park, University of Maryland Shock Trauma Hospital, University of Michigan, and University of Illinois along with several industry partners. He is also the founder and inaugural President of the new Global Consortium of Innovation and Engineering in Medicine, an international collaborative of over 30 medical and engineering schools around the world along with government ministries of health, regulatory agencies, and foundations and several international biotech companies coming together through the consortium as the premier collaborative global network to advance medicine through the intersection of engineering and innovation.

Florence Doo, MD, MA, is the Director of Innovation at the University of Maryland Medical Intelligent Imaging (UM2ii) Center and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She completed her radiology residency at Mount Sinai West and dual fellowships in Body Imaging at Stanford University and Informatics through the American College of Radiology (ACR). Dr. Doo’s research focuses on clinical informatics and applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve radiology service delivery and healthcare outcomes. She is grant-funded by AAR CERRAF, the UMMC Innovation award for a clinical LLM tool, and an NIH MHHD P50 Center sub-project grant.

Dr. Patino received his MD and was a neurology resident in his home country of Colombia, after which he pursued doctoral and postdoctoral training in neuroscience at the University of Michigan. He has been a medical educator for the past 14 years and currently is an associate professor in the Department of Medical Education and the associate dean for undergraduate medical education at the Western Michigan University homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He serves as an assistant editor of the journal Academic Medicine and is a certified TBL consultant through the TBL-Collaborative. His research interests include neuroscience education, assessment, and the application of quantitative methods (including artificial intelligence) in research.