AI in Healthcare
west Africa

Program

May 4: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare: Examining Practical Implementations of Cutting-Edge Technology

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14:00-15:00 (GMT)

Matthew R. Versaggi (Optum Technology -UnitedHealth Group)

May 4: Algorithms to study placental health and function in Magnetic Resonance images

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14:00-16:00 (GMT)

Mazdak Abulnaga (MIT)

May 4: Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare in Africa by Africans

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16:00-16:30 (GMT)

Eliane Birba (UCD)

May 5: The Rise and Fall of the Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Hype

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15:00-16:30 (GMT)

Leo Anthony Celi (Harvard and MIT)

Moderator:

Dr. Bachir Ismaël OUEDRAOGO

Senior Advisor to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Former Minister for Energy, Mines and Careers

May 11: Transforming Healthcare in Africa using Machine Learning

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14:00-16:15 (GMT)

Mihaela van der Schaar (University of Cambridge)

Moderator:

Prof Smaïla Ouédraogo

Professor and epidemiologist; Former Minister of Health of Burkina Faso

May 12: Seeing the Future: Image-Based Risk Models

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14:00-15:30 (GMT)

Regina Barzilay (MIT)

Moderator:

Hadja Fatimata Ouattara

Former Minister of Development of the Digital Economy and Posts

May 14: We're (not) fine: Lack of fairness in Artificial Intelligence-based medical image diagnostic tools

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14:00-16:00 (GMT)

Laleh Seyye-Kalantari ( Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute)

May 17: Natural Language Processing for Clinical Texts

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14:00-16.00 (GMT)

Shivade Chaitanya (Amazon)

Moderator:

Dr. Harouna Kaboré

Consultant; Former Minister of Commerce, Industry and Handicrafts

May 18: Applying AI to Disease Genomics: Asthma, Cancer& Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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14:00-16 (GMT)

Mark Gerstein (Yale)

May 19: How does Artificial Intelligence lead to smarter cancer care?

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14:00-15:30 (GMT)

Kyung Sung (UCLA)

Moderator:

Dr Sebgo Gérald Ezéchiel

Radiologist/Interventional Imaging Physician

May 20: Disease Intervention Planning with Artificial Intelligence

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14:00-16 (GMT)

Charles Wachira (IBM Research)

Moderator:

Prof. Abdramane Bassiahi Soura

Professor of Demography; Director of the ISSP (Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population)

May 21: Ethical and Legal Aspects of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

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14:00-16:15 (GMT)

Sara Gerke (Penn State Dickinson Law)

Moderator:

Maitre Bathélémy KERE

Minister of Justice and Human Rights, in charge of relations with institutions, Keeper of the Seals

May 23: Biomedical AI for Precision Health

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15:00-16 :30 (GMT)

Hoifung Poon (Microsoft)

Moderator:

Prof LÉONIE CLAUDINE LOUGUE /SORGHO

Professor of Cardiology; Former MINISTER OF HEALTH

May 24: Using Open Science in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for medicine to save lives

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16:00-18(GMT)

Candace Makeda Moore (Netherlands eScience Center)

Moderator:

Pr SOMÉ Der Adolphe

University Hospital Researcher, Nazi Boni University, President of the Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians of Burkina (SOGOB), Burkina Faso

May 25: 15. AI/ML in Low Resource Environments: Opportunities and Challenges

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14:00-16:00 (GMT)

Robert Vandersluis (GSK)

Moderator:

Prof Séni Mahamadou OUEDRAOGO

Professor of Law; Former Ministry of Public Service, Labor and Social Protection-Burkina Faso

May 26: 9. Clinical Machine Intelligence in an Academic Medical Center: The Stanford AIMI Center Approach

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14:00-16:00 (GMT)

Lungren Matt (Amazon et Stanford)

Moderator:

Pr Ousséini DIALLO

Professor of Cardiology; President of the Burkinabe Society of Radiology (SOBURAD)

May 28:13. Artificial Intelligence in the pharmaceutical sector: Opportunities and Challenges

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14:00-15:30 (GMT)

Peter Henstock (Pfizer)

Moderator:

Dr. Robert Lucien Jean-Claude KARGOUGOU

Minister of Health and Public Hygiene of Burkina Faso

May 31: AI in healthcare: A perspective from Google

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16:00-17 :30 (GMT)

Javier Tordable (Google)

Moderator:

Prof NICOLAS MEDA

University Professor/Physician< Researcher; Former Minister of Health Burkina Faso

June 1: Machine Learning for in-patient settings

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14:00 -15 (GMT)

Xu Minnan (Philips)

June 1: Machine Learning for prenatal ultrasound

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15-16 (GMT)

Jonathan Sutton (Philips)

Moderator:

Cyrille Priscille KABORET/OUEDRAOGO

Director General of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) pédiatrique Charles de Gaulle de Ouagadougou

June 2: Explainable deep neural networks for medical image analysis

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14:30 -16:00 (GMT)

Geras Krzysztof (NYU)

Moderator:

Dr. Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Coordinator of the Center of Interdisciplinary Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Development (CITADEL)

June 3: 6. Artificial Intelligence for medical imaging: What do we need, what is out there, and how can we do better?

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14:00-16:00 (GMT)

Julien Cohen-Adad (Polytechnique Montreal)

Moderator:

Dr Ouedraogo louis Sylvain peng-wendé

Geriatrician and gerontologist, Burkina Faso