“Translating AI into Practice” was the theme of the fall 2025 symposium of the AI Discovery & Vigilance to Accelerate Innovation & Clinical Excellence (ADVANCE) Center held Oct. 8-9 in Langford Auditorium.
From the Washington University in St. Louis, Philip Payne, PhD, director of the Institute for Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics and chief health AI officer at BJC Health System and WashU Medicine, delivered a talk with the title “From Overload to Insight: AI’s Role in Elevating Human Attention in Biomedicine.”
Kedar Mate, MD, co-founder and chief medical officer of Qualified Health, a generative AI company, delivered a talk with the title “Climbing a Mountain: Lessons on Scaling Innovations to Deliver on AI’s Promise.”
VUMC experts served on panels devoted to AI broad basics, AI at the research bench, AI at the bedside, AI for the future, AI governance and monitoring, and AI lessons learned.
Established in March 2024 within the department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the ADVANCE Center promotes foundational AI research and development to enable data-driven precision health care; responsible, effective implementation of novel AI capabilities in clinical settings; and broad collaboration to address practical problems in health and health care. The center is led by biomedical informatics professors Peter Embí, MD, and Bradley Malin, PhD.
