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Event Overview
Pitt Med + AI: Transforming Global Health Symposium
University of Pittsburgh - May 1, 2025
The Pitt Med + AI: Transforming Global Health Symposium is a daylong event during which Anantha Shekhar, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean of the School of Medicine, and Joan Gabel, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh since 2023, will announce a partnership among the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Vizzhy Longevity Inc., and other global leaders in AI health care technology. The symposium will also mark a $50 million investment in the University from those companies to support using AI to treat diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and other chronic diseases using information gleaned from mass data sets.
Spend the day with us to learn how leveraging the world's most powerful AI will dramatically affect health and health care delivery.
Symposium Information
Personalized medicine is rapidly evolving. The integration of multiomics, systems biology and artificial intelligence (AI) has enabled a shift towards P4 health care—care that’s predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory. This shift is expected to empower clinicians to make data-informed decisions and improve patient outcomes by personalizing interventions, both for wellness and disease.
How? AI has enabled the analysis of complex multiomics data at an unprecedented scale and depth. (Multiomics might include genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, metagenomics and phenomics, or the study of phenotypes.)
Furthermore, digital health trackers detect a wide range of physiological signals, like physical activity, sleep quality, heart rate and body temperature, and biological sensors track the growing complexity of environmental exposures. By combining diet and this physiological, behavioral and environmental information, researchers can optimize wellness, facilitate healthy aging, identify early signatures of wellness to disease transitions and pinpoint actionable therapeutic targets for both wellness and disease.
The first three Ps of P4—predictive, preventive and personalized—leverage life sciences and data-driven health. The fourth P, participatory, leverages social science and economics and is perhaps the most challenging: How do you persuade patients, physicians, leaders in health care, biotech, AI and pharma, as well as regulators and politicians, to accept the fundamental paradigm change coming in health care?
The potential payoffs are enormous. As computational power and multiomics technologies continue to advance, this integrated approach could catalyze a shift from the current dominant focus on disease to health care of wellness, healthy aging and disease prevention.
This symposium will launch the Global 1 Million Precision Medicine Initiative (1M-PMI). The 1M-PMI provides compelling evidence that data-driven health may optimize individual wellness and prevent transitions to many chronic diseases through early detection and therapy. This symposium will also bring together scientists in the fields of multiomics, systems biology, AI and P4 health care to discuss recent advancements, share insights and explore collaborative opportunities to advance P4 health care. They’ll also discuss the critical issues of data standardization, trust, security and the importance of widespread data sharing.
Event Details
Location
May 1, 2025 - The University Club, Ballroom B
123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Pitt campus in Oakland
Hotel Options
- Hilton Garden Inn Pittsburgh University Place
- The Oaklander Hotel, Autograph Collection
- Residence Inn Pittsburgh Oakland/University Place
Parking
- Soldiers & Sailors Parking Garage: 4390 Bigelow Blvd.; availability may vary
- During this conference, parking on Thackeray Avenue will be limited to permit only. Permitted parking is limited and may be available upon request during registration. Metered parking may also be available on University Place and Fifth Ave. Additional campus parking information can be found here: https://www.pts.pitt.edu/mobility/parking/visitor-and-daily-parking
Preliminary Agenda
- 8-9 a.m.
Arrival: light breakfast available
- 9-9:30 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
- 9:30-9:45 a.m.
Signing Ceremony
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Vizzhy Longevity Inc
- 9:45-10 a.m.
Overview of the Partnership
- 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Speaker Talks
- 12:30-12:40 p.m.
Break
- 12:40-1:40 p.m.
Lunch (provided)
- 1:40-4:10 p.m.
Speaker Talks
- 6:20-8 p.m.
Reception and Networking
Speakers
Anantha Shekhar
Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences
John and Gertrude Petersen Dean, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Joan Gabel
Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
Leroy “Lee” Hood
Chief Innovation Officer and Distinguished Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Founder and CEO, Phenome Health
Cofounder and Professor, Institute for Systems Biology
Adil Mardinoglu
Professor of Systems Biology, King’s College London
Group Leader in the Science for Life Laboratory, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology
Vishnuvardhan Pogunulu Srinivasulu
Founder and CEO, Vizzhy Inc.
Chandan Sen
Associate Vice Chancellor of Life Sciences Innovation, Health Sciences
Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Craig Mundie
President, Mundie and Associates
Fiona Kaper
Vice President of Multiomics, Illumina Inc.
Fritz Roth
John K. Vries Professor and Chair of Computational Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Hasan Türkez
Vice Rector and Professor of Medical Biology, Atatürk University
Hooman Rashidi
Lombardi and Shinozuka Experimental Pathology Professor
Associate Dean of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Mark Geraci
Vice Chancellor for Research, Health Sciences
Vice Dean for Research and Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
Minho Shong
Professor of Medicine, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST-GSMSE)
Cofounder of THOR Therapeutics and SILK Longevity
Nachiket Deshpande
President of Global AI Services, Strategic Deals and Partnerships and Director, LTIMindtree
Nathan Price
Professor and Codirector, Center for Human Healthspan, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Sunil Gupta
Cofounder, Managing Director and CEO, Yotta
Vivek Goswami
Board of Directors American Heart Association (Austin)
Chairman of Nuclear Medicine at Austin Heart