The role of artificial intelligence in medicine and health care is the topic of the second annual Health and AI symposium hosted on Oct. 4 by the Office of the Vice President for Health Sciences.

Free and open to the university community and the public, the event will take place from 9 a.m. to noon in the M&T Bank Auditorium, Room 2120, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. There is also an option to attend remotely. Registration is required for all.

David Rhew, chief medical officer of Microsoft Global who is recognized as one of the 50 most influential clinician executives by Modern Healthcare, will give the keynote at 9:30 a.m., titled “Improving Outcomes and Health Equity with Data & AI.” He holds six U.S. technology patents that enable authoring, mapping and integration of clinical decision support into electronic health records.

Following the keynote, there will be a Q&A at 10:15 a.m. Allison Brashear, vice president for health sciences and Jacobs School dean, will moderate a panel featuring Don Boyd, CEO, Kaleida Health; Michael Galang, senior vice president and chief information officer, Catholic Health; Sarah Mullin, director of biomedical informatics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Shared Resource, and co-chair, Roswell Park AI Taskforce; and Thomas Quatroche, president and CEO, Erie County Medical Center.

Following the Q&A at 11 a.m., Jinjun Xiong, director of UB’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, will moderate a discussion about the inaugural class of UB researchers who have been awarded Health and AI Seed Funding.