By Kelly Peters
Special to Rice News
Rice University’s Ken Kennedy Institute is hosting the third annual AI in Health Conference Sept. 9-12. The conference features add-on workshops, panels, technical talks, an exhibit hall and presentations with researchers, clinicians and engineers utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to influence real-world health outcomes and improve patient care. Themes for this year include foundation models in medicine, LLM applications, AI in neuroscience and neurotechnology, digital twins in health care and patient engagement and equity in health AI.
“The AI in Health Conference isn’t just about what AI can do — it’s about what AI should do for patient care,” said Lydia Kavraki, director of the Ken Kennedy Institute.
The conference will take place on Rice’s campus in Houston at the BioScience Research Collaborative, which neighbors the largest medical center in the world. The Texas Medical Center hosts 60-plus member institutions that are visited by 10 million patients each year. The conference provides a unique opportunity for collaborative research opportunities through discussions with invited speakers from a variety of industry and academic institutions, including the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, Houston Methodist, UTHealth Houston, Genialis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Yale School of Medicine, University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University and Rice.
● What: AI in Health Conference hosted by Rice’s Ken Kennedy Institute
● When: Monday, Sept. 9 – Thursday, Sept. 12
● Where: BioScience Research Collaborative, 6500 Main St., Houston, TX 77030
Visit the AI in Health Conference website for information on the program, speaker lineup, workshops and registration.
The Ken Kennedy Institute, established in 1986, is an interdisciplinary group committed to addressing critical global challenges through foundational research in AI, data and computing. The institute fosters collaborative efforts to drive AI-powered discoveries across diverse scientific disciplines and champions ethical and responsible AI innovation. The institute’s external partnerships in the computational sciences promote research and innovation across academia, industry and the community with notable collaborations with the Texas Medical Center, the city of Houston, several government agencies, foundations, industry and academic institutions.
Media planning to attend the conference should RSVP with Silvia Cernea Clark at sc220@rice.edu.