June 5 | Portland, Maine

2023 Annual Symposium on Risks and Opportunities of AI in Pharmaceutical Medicine

AI and Causality

About the Symposium

Where will the AI revolution take pharmaceutical science?

The Symposium on Risks and Opportunities of AI in Pharmaceutical Medicine was an event jointly sponsored by Pfizer Inc., the Roux Institute at Northeastern University and the American Statistical Association (ASA).

This event served as a platform for distinguished statisticians, data scientists, regulators, and other professionals to address the challenges and opportunities of AI in pharmaceutical medicine; to foster collaboration among industry, academia, regulatory agencies, and professional associations; and to propose recommendations with policy implications for proper implementation of AI in promoting public health.

As a convener of researchers in the fields of AI, data science, biotechnology, computational medicine, and more, industry partners, academic faculty, and entrepreneurs, the Roux Institute at Northeastern University was uniquely positioned to host this event and connect the experts needed to tackle the challenges and opportunities presented.

The Roux Institute at Northeastern University is a center of activity for both the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics Center (OHDSI), which advances healthcare by fostering reproducible research through open science, and the Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence (EAI), which researches and develops human-centric AI solutions that leverage machine technology to extend human intelligence. ​

As a co-sponsor with Pfizer Inc. and the American Statistical Association, the Roux Institute at Northeastern University was pleased to host this symposium focused on Risks and Opportunities of AI in Pharmaceutical Medicine.

Conference Co-Chairs
Demissie Alemayehu, Pfizer Inc.
David Madigan, Northeastern University

Date & Time
June 5, 2023, 7:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Location
Ocean Gateway – Portland, ME 04101

Keynote Speaker

Guido W. Imbens, PhD

2021 Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences Applied Econometrics Professor and Professor of Economics Stanford Graduate School of Business

Speakers and panelists

Aloka Chakravarty, PhD, US Food & Drug Administration

Anant Madabhushi, PhD, Emory University

Bruce Church, PhD, Aitia

Elizabeth A. Stuart, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Emre Kıcıman, PhD, Microsoft Research

George M. Hripcsak, MD, MS, Columbia University

Haoda Fu, PhD, Eli Lilly

Kannan Natarajan, PhD, Pfizer Inc.

Louisa Smith, PhD, Northeastern University

Mark van der Laan, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Michael Katehakis, PhD, Rutgers University

Michael T. Lu, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School

Nigam Shah, PhD, Stanford University

Sheraz Khan, PhD, Pfizer Inc.

Tala Fakhouri, PhD, US Food & Drug Administration

Tianxi Cai, ScD, Harvard University