Center for Advanced Medical Analytics

Invited Speaker Series

Upcoming talks

Date	Name	Title	Insititution	Name of talk	Location	CME Credit
6/17/2026	Tim Ruchti, PhD	Scientist	Nihon Kohden Digital Health Solutions		Peds Conference Room OMS 3906	n/a
6/24/2026	Kelley Kovatis, MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College	Christiana Care Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Pediatrics		Peds Conference Room OMS 3906	1.5

Previous talks 2026

Date	Name	Degree	Title	Insititution	Name of talk
6/9/2026	Arun Krishnaraj	MD, MPH, MBA, FSAR, FACR	Professor	UVA, Radiology & Medical Imaging	Leveraging AI to Address Pain Points Throughout the Imaging Value Chain and Beyond	1.5
6/3/2026	Lisa Letzkus	PhD, RN, CPNP-AC	Associate Professor	UVA, Pediatrics	Cerebral Palsy Advanced Medical Analytics	1.5
5/27/2026	Dustin D. Flannery	MD	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Medical Analytics for perinatal infectious diseases and neonatal antimicrobial resistance and stewardship	1.5
5/6/2026	Emma Holmes	MD	Assistant Professor	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Center for Artificial Intelligence in Children’s Health	The cost of Healthcare in the Era of AI	1.5
4/22/2026	Cori Espelien	PhD	Post-Doctoral Research Associate	UVA School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences	Pain detection pathway using facial expression analysis	1.5
3/18/2026	Emily O'Gorman	MD, PhD	Assistant Professor	UVA School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics	ML to classify psychiatric symptoms and identify factors influencing mental health trajectories in youth with neurodevelopmental disorders	1.5
3/9/2026	Tom Hartvigsen	PhD	Assistant Professor	UVA School of Data Science	Teaching Language Models to Reason about Clinical Time Series	1.5
2/4/2026	Kathleen McManus and Erin Rogers	MD PhD	Associate Professor Data Scientist	UVA School of Medicine Department of Infectious Diseases	Ending the HIV Epidemic: Evidence about Health Policies in Practice and Establishing a Pipeline for Multi-State AIDS Drug Assistance Program Data	1.5
1/28/2026	Amanda Watson	PhD	Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Assistant Professor, Computer Science	UVA School of Engineering, Link Lab	Pulse oximetry, skin pigmentation, and an upgraded photoplethysmography sensor for novel noninvasive biomarkers
1/21/2026	Mark Rucker Laura Barnes	PhD PhD	Computer Engineer Professor, Associate Director, Digital Tech Core and Link Lab	UVA Systems and Information Engineering	Healthcare Research Platforms at the UVA Digital Tech Core
1/14/2026	Madhav Marathe Anil Vullikanti	PhD PhD	Professor, Computer Science Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity Executive Director, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy) Professor, Computer Science and Biocomplexity Institute	UVA Biocomplexity Institute	AI and Healthcare at the Biocomplexity Institute
1/7/2026	John Clapham	PhD	graduate from William & Mary, Computer Science Department	William & Mary, Computer Science Department	Ubiquitous Intelligent Sensor Systems for Health and Wellness	1.5

Previous talks 2025

Date	Name	Degree	Title	Insititution	Name of talk
12/10/2025	Tien Comlekoglu	BS	MD/PhD Candidate	UVA SOM and Microvascular Engineering Lab	A hybrid modeling approach to forecasting patient-specific risk of hypotension in the intensive-care setting	1.5
11/19/2025	Sherry Kausch	PhD, RN	Assistant Research Professor	UVA School of Medicine, Pediatrics	Multimodal AI Early Warning for Neonatal Sepsis	1.5
9/03/2025	Mike Spaeder	MD	Professor of Pediatrics	UVA PICU	Innovations at the Cradle: Integrating Emerging Technology and AI in Neonatal Cardiac Care	1.5
8/20/2025	John Delos	PhD	Professor Emeritus	William and Mary Physics Department	Skin tone and pulse ox measurements	1.5
8/13/2025	Lex Fedor	BS	Data Scientist	UVA Neurosurgery	Spreading Depolarizations Impact on Intrinsic Signals	1.5
6/25/2025	Benjamin Fuller	MD	Fellow	UVA Infectious Disease and International Health	Priority Pathogen Surveillance in Uganda
6/11/2025	Bimal P. Chaudhari	MD, MPH	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Associate Director of Biomedical Informatics for the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute	Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University College of Medicine Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine	AI using Phenotype Ontologies from the NICU Electronic Medical Record to Predict the Presence of Genetic Diagnoses
5/14/2025	Elizabeth Hyde	MD, MSE	Second-year Pediatric Critical Care Fellow	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Novel Predictive Model for Pediatric Bag Mask Ventilation Breath Quality Using Capnography Waveforms	1.0
5/7/2025	Randall Moorman and Matthew Clark	MD PhD	UVA SOM Professor Emeritus / NKDHS Consultant NKDHS Principal Software Engineer	University of Virginia School of Medicine & Nihon Kohden Digital Health Solutions	An analysis of bias and drift using only continuous cardiorespiratory monitoring	no
3/19/2025	Ben Shank Alvaro G Moreira	MS MD, MS	CEO Assistant Professor of Pediatrics	EMx Biotech LLC UT Health San Antonio	Generating Arterial Waveforms from Non-Invasive Cardiorespiratory Signals Using Artificial Intelligence
2/19/2025	Tom Hartvigsen	PhD	Assistant Professor	School of Data Science, University of Virginia	Teaching Language Models to Reason about Clinical Time Series
2/12/2025	Ashish K Khanna	MD, MS, FCCP, FCCM, FASA	Professor and Vice-Chair of Research Director Perioperative Outcomes and Informatics Collaborative (POIC)	Department of Anesthesiology, Section on Critical Care Medicine Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center	Wireless Wearables And The Future Of Innovative Perioperative Care
1/22/2025	Suma B. Hoffman	MD, MS	Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology	The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Children's National Hospital	The Effect of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation on Autonomic Function in Neonates

Previous talks 2024

Date	Name	Degree	Title	Insititution	Name of talk
11/13/2024	Thomas Shin	MD, PhD	Assistant Professor of Surgery	University of Virginia	Leveraging artificial intelligence in digital surgery
10/23/2024	Andrew Carlson	MD	Professor of Neurosurgery	University of Virginia	Using Data in the Neuro ICU to Target Patient Physiology
10/16/2024	Richard Andrew Taylor	MD, MHS	Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and of Bioinformatics & Data Science	Yale School of Medicine	Leveraging Digital Health Technologies to Transform Emergency Care
8/28/2024	Zheng Peng	BS	PhD Student	Techincal University of Eindhoven	Validation of Late Onset Sepsis prediction models across clinical settings
7/31/2024	John Delos	PhD	Chief Executive Officer	Butterfly Dynamics	Ergodicity in Hospitals
5/15/2024	Lindsey Knake	Md, MS	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology Associate Chief Health Information Officer, Pediatrics University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital	University of Iowa	A Guide to Exploring Epic’s Cosmos Universe: Insights from Studying Tiny Babies
4/3/2024	Robert D Stevens	MD, MBA, FCCM	Director Division of Informatics and Precision Medicine	Johns Hopkins University	Next Generation Intensive Care Medicine
3/27/2024	Olaf Oldenburg	MD	Chief of Cardiolgy, Professor	Clemenshospital Münster	Heart Failure, Circulation and Respiration: What Do We Learn form Sleep Studies

Previous talks 2023

Date	Name	Degree	Title	Insititution	Name of talk
12/13/2023	Robert L. Hester	PhD	Professor of Physiology	University of Mississippi Medical Center	Human Digital Twin: Is It Possible?
11/27/2023	Matthew T. Clark	PhD	Principal Software Engineer	Nihon Kohden Digital Health Solutions	Predictive Analytics Monitoring
10/25/2023	John Delos	PhD	Chief Executive Officer	Buttefly Dynamics, LLC	Periodic And Cheyne-Stokes Breathing: A Mathematical Model for Analysis of Data
8/23/2023	Robert Quinn		Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder	Sepsis Scout, Inc.	Stopping sepsis in cancer patients where it starts - at home.
7/19/2023	Zheng Peng	BS	PhD Student	Techincal University of Eindhoven	Validation of Late Onset Sepsis prediction models
7/12/2023	Eric Rosenthal	MD	Associate Professor	Harvard Medical School	Physiological Biomarkers of Neurologic…
5/24/2023	Gary An	MD, FACS	Professor, Surgeon	University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine	Complex Control Discovery for Sepsis: “Digital Twins” in the face of perpetual Epistemic Uncertainty to capture Biological Heterogeneity
4/26/2023	Derek Kaknes	BSBME	Research Associate	Va Tech Ctr for Biostatistics & Health Data Science	TRANSFORMERS IN HEALTHCARE: A Review of Large Language Models in the Clinical Domain
3/8/2023	Rishi Kamaleswaren	PhD	Associate Professor	Emory	Applying Artificial Intelligence using Multi-Modal Data Streams in Precision Medicine: A path forward
2/1/2023	Nicko Corriveau	MS	Data Scientist	Columbia University	Transformers for Soccer Match Prediction
1/18/2023	Yuting Yuan	PhD	Visiting Assistant Professor of Math and Data Science	William and Mary	Queueing Theory for Healthcare Operations Management
1/11/2023	Zach Vesoulis	MD MSCI	Instructor in Pediatrics	Washington University St. Louis

Previous talks 2022

Date	Name	Degree	Title	Insititution	Name of talk
12/14/2022	Vitaly Herasevich	MD, PhD	Professor of Anesthesiology and Medicine	Mayo Clinic	Clinical informatics in intensive care: Alerts, Clinical Decision Support Systems, and Viewers.
12/7/2022	Ken Bilchick	MD	Professor of Medicine	University of Virginia Cardiology
11/30/2022	Sivan Bercovici	MD	Senior Medical Director	Karius, Inc.
11/9/2022	Oracle			oracle
9/14/2022	Allan J. Walkey	MD, MSc	Professor of Medicine	Boston University School of Medicine
6/22/2022	Gilles Clermont	MD	Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Mathematics, Clinical and Translational Science, and Industrial Engineering	UPMC
6/15/2022	Xiao Hu	PhD	Professor and Asa Griggs Candler Chair of Nursing Data Science	Emory University
5/25/2022	Jason W. Rocks	PhD	Postdoctoral Associate	Boston University Arts & Sciences
5/18/2022	Martin Frasch	MD, PhD	Affiliate Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology	University of Washington	Machine learning and Deep learning on physiological time series: what goes up, must come down
5/16/2022	Farbod Tajrishi	MD	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Emory University School of Medicine
4/20/2022	Christopher Haggerty	PhD	Associate Professor	Geisinger
4/13/2022	Anthony Kashou	MD	Cardiology Fellow	Mayo Clinic	ECG Interpretation: Advances, Limitations, & Solutions
2/16/2022	Mario Lavanga	PhD	Computational Neuroscientist, Data Scientist, Postdoctoral researcher	Aix-Marseille University

Previous talks 2021

Date	Name	Degree	Title	Insititution
3/24/2021	Andrew Beam	PhD	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics	Harvard Medical School
5/12/2021	Brett Beaulieu-Jones	PhD	Instructor in Biomedical Informatics	Harvard Medical School
8/25/2021	Nestoras Mathioudakis	MD, MHS	Associate Professor of Medicine	Johns Hopkins Medicine
9/1/2021	Megan Puglia	PhD	Assistant Professor of Neurology	University of Virginia School of Medicine
9/8/2021	Karandeep Singh	MD, MMSc	Assistant Professor	University of Michigan Medical School
10/20/2021	Soojin Park	MD, FAHA, FNCS	Associate Professor of Neurology	Columbia University
10/27/2021	Marta Carrara	PhD	Postdoctoral Researcher	Politecnico di Milano
11/10/2021	L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto	MD, MBI, FAMIA	Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Critical Care) and Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics)	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Previous talks 2020

Date	Name	Degree	Title	Insititution	Name of talk
3/25/2020	Guy Hatch	MD	Chief Technology Officer	Reveal Biosensors, Inc.	A new sensor for diagnosing sleep disordered breathing
4/29/2020	John Delos	PhD	Professor of Physics	William and Mary	Cheyne-Stokes breathing and COVID
7/15/2020	Leo Celi	MD, MPH, MSc	Associate Professor	Harvard Medical School	Transformative Potentials and Applications of AI to Healthcare
10/7/2020	Soojin Park	MD, FAHA, FNCS	Associate Professor of Neurology	Columbia University
11/11/2020	Matthew Churpek	MD, MPH, PHD	Associate Professor	UW
11/18/2020	David M Maslove	MD	Assistant Professor	Queen's University	Best Practices in Machine Learning
12/2/2020	Carolina Varon	PhD, BSEE, MSc	Visiting Assistant Professor	Technical Uiniversity of Delft
12/16/2020	Alistair Johnson	PhD, BE	Research Scientist	University of Toronto

Previous talks 2019

Date	Name	Degree	Title	Insititution	Name of talk
3/6/2019	James L. Wynn	MD	Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology, Immunology, and Experimental Medicine	University of Florida	Neonatal Sepsis: A View from the SOFA
3/20/2019	David Mortara	PhD, FACC	Associate Professor	UCSF School of Nursing	Methods to Improve Respiration Rate Measures in the ICU
6/5/2019	Chanu Rhee	MD, MPH	Associate Professor of Medicine	Harvard Medical School	Developing a National Approach to Sepsis Surveillance Using Electronic Health Record Data
8/7/2019	Mary Csete	MD, PhD	Chief Medical Officer	Avicena, Inc.	Translation of basic fluid dynamics into real-time, non-invasive clinical cardiac hemodynamics
8/14/2019	Teeranan(Ben) Pokaprakarn	BS	Graduate Student	University of North Carolina School of Nursing	Deep learning on ECG signal
9/4/2019	John Delos	PhD	Professor of Physics	W&M	Bayesian network analysis: An applied example
9/11/2019	Lauren Marsillo and L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto			Northwestern	Physiologic monitoring to enhance situational awareness and predict clinical trajectories in the pediatric ICU
10/23/2019	Denise McKaig			William and Mary	Can we use changes in BP waveforms to detect onset of hemorrhage?
10/23/2019	John Delos			William and Mary	Surprisal Analysis as a Measure of Quality of Medical Care
11/6/2019	Bela Suki		Professor	Boston University College of Engineering	Engineering Respiratory diagnostic and therapeutic tools for the ICU
11/13/2019	John Delos	PhD	Professor of Physics	William and Mary	Dynamical Systems Connected with Ergodic Theory
11/20/2019	John Delos	PhD	Professor of Physics	William and Mary	A hospital is a stochastic dynamical system

Previous talks 2018

Date	Name	Degree	Title	Insititution	Name of talk
11/28/2018	Zach Vesoulis	MD		WUSTL	Defining a neonatal physiologic phenotype for prediction of adverse neurologic outcome
12/5/2018	Amit Shah	MD, MSCR	Assistant Professor	Emory University	Clinical Translation of Electrocardiographic Parameters for Novel Indications in Human Pyschophysiology and Cardiovascular Risk Assessment