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Pitt Med + AI: Transforming Global Health Symposium

 

 



Registration is now available at the event on May 1. See Event Details for more information on location.


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Event Overview

Pitt Med + AI: Transforming Global Health Symposium
University of Pittsburgh - May 1, 2025

Anantha Shekhar, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean of the School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, and Joan Gabel, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh since 2023, will announce a new partnership with Vizzhy Inc., a global leader in artificial intelligence health care technology. Together, Pitt and Vizzhy will launch GAINMED, an AI-powered health care platform delivering P5 Medicine—predictive, preventive, personalized, precision and participatory care.

A further component of this initiative is the establishment of the Pitt-Vizzhy Longevity Labs, in partnership with Illumina Inc., providing multiomics laboratory services to expand precision medicine across the United States and globally.

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

Following the announcement, the daylong event continues with The Pitt Med + AI: Transforming Global Health Symposium, during which more than a dozen thought leaders in technology, medicine, systems biology and other disciplines—scientists from across the globe with expertise in applying AI to health care—will discuss recent advancements, share insights and explore collaborative opportunities to advance P5 Medicine, as well as addressing data standardization, trust, security and the importance of widespread data sharing.

Multiomics integrates various layers of biological information—genomic, metabolomic, proteomic, lipidomic, transcriptomic, microbiomic, epigenomic, pharmacogenomic and others—to get a complete picture of a person’s biology.

Personalized medicine is evolving rapidly by integrating multiomics, systems biology and AI, enabling a new model of health care that optimizes individual wellness and prevents disease through early detection and reversal. This combination of biological and digital insight allows clinicians to detect transitions from wellness to illness before symptoms occur, and to intervene with precision.

 

Event Details

Location

The University Club, Ballroom B
123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA  15213 
Pitt campus in Oakland

Hotel Options

Parking

Agenda

8-9 a.m. Arrival and Badge Pickup or Registration (second floor)
Light breakfast available
 
9-9:20 a.m. Welcome
Anantha Shekhar, Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

Opening Remarks 
Joan Gabel, Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
 
9:20-9:40 a.m. Signing Ceremony
University of Pittsburgh and Vizzhy Inc.
 
9:40-9:50 a.m.

Overview of the Partnership
Anantha Shekhar
Vishnuvardhan Pogunulu Srinivasulu, Founder and CEO, Vizzhy Inc.

Symposium talks are located in Ballroom B on the second floor.
 
10-10:40 a.m. “Data-Driven Individual Health: Catalyzed by Big Data, Systems Analyses and AI-Driven Insights”
Leroy 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
 
10:45-11:15 a.m. “Human Metabologenomics for Integration of Multiomics Data”
Adil Mardinoglu, Professor of Systems Biology, King’s College London; and Group Leader in the Science for Life Laboratory, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology
 
11:20-11:50 p.m. “Human Wound Multiomics”
Chandan Sen, Associate Vice Chancellor of Life Sciences Innovation, Health Sciences, and Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
 
11:55 a.m.-12:15 p.m. "We Are LTIMindtree: Helping Our Clients Get to the Future. Faster. Together."
Manikandesh Venkatachalam, Chief Business Officer, LTIMindtree 
 
12:20-12:40 p.m.

"Building a Hyperscale AI/GPU Computer Data Centre at University of Pittsburgh"
Sunil Gupta, Cofounder, Managing Director and CEO, Yotta
12:40-1:20 p.m.
 

Lunch (Ballroom A, first floor)

Symposium talks are located in Ballroom B on the second floor.
 
1:25-2:05 p.m. “Driving the Multiomics Revolution: The Latest Innovations from Illumina”
Fiona Kaper, Vice President of Multiomics, Illumina Inc.
 
2:10-2:40 p.m. “AI in the Clinical Application of Multiomics Data”
 Vishnuvardhan Pogunulu Srinivasulu, Founder and CEO, Vizzhy Inc.
 
2:45-3:05 p.m. “Anatolian P4 Medicine Initiative”
Hasan Türkez, Vice Rector and Professor of Medical Biology, Atatürk University
 
3:10-3:30 p.m. “Korean P4 Medicine Initiative”
Minho Shong, Professor of Medicine, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST-GSMSE), and Cofounder of THOR Therapeutics and SILK Longevity
 
3:35-3:55 p.m. “Testing the Function of All Possible Missense Variants”
Fritz Roth, John K. Vries Professor of Computational Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh 
 
4-4:20 p.m.

"Closing the Health–Tech Gap: Aligning Medicine with the Pace of Innovation"
Vivek Goswami, Board of Directors American Heart Association (Austin) and Chairman of Nuclear Medicine at Austin Heart 
4:20-4:30 p.m. Break
 
4:30-5 p.m. “The State of AI Within Pitt School of Medicine and the Role of CPACE”
Hooman Rashidi, Lombardi and Shinozuka Experimental Pathology Professor and Associate Dean of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
 
5-5:40 p.m. “Artificial General Intelligence: Impact on Biology and Medicine”
Craig Mundie, President, Mundie and Associates
 
5:40-6:20 p.m. “Decoding Aging: AI, Big Data and the Future of Precision Health”
Nathan Price, Professor and Codirector of the Center for Human Healthspan, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
 
6:20-8 p.m. Reception and Networking (Ballroom A, first floor)