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TheBridge has partnered with leading tech, policy and political organizations including Microsoft, Google, Twitter, WeWork, Postmates, The US Chamber's Technology Engagement Center (C_TEC), National Journal's Policy Makers Network, Verizon, Dell, Lyft, Quorum, Airbnb, 1776, DCode, The United States Digital Service (USDS), The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Vrge Strategies, The Bank Policy Institute, Women's High-Tech Coalition, and more. 

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Cultural AI Series: Bridging the gap between patients and healthcare providers using AI

How can the digital transformation of AI-ready datasets help businesses and governments form more authentic engagements? How can we bridge the gap between patients and healthcare providers and advance a more culturally competent landscape of healthcare? Can culturally inclusive and sensitive narratives, powered by AI, enhance patient-centered care? These empirical insights can contribute to better communication between healthcare professionals and ethnically-diverse patients, as well as more satisfying consumer-chatbot interactions in the healthcare industry. This event, on June 17, was part of the Cultural AI Series that TheBridge  partnered on with IVOW, Women in AI and Integrity M.

Watch the recording here:

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Panelists:

Renee Yao leads global healthcare AI startups at NVIDIA, managing 700+ healthcare startups in digital health, medical instrument, medical imaging, genomics, and drug discovery segments. Previously she worked as a senior product manager and product marketing manager for AI Systems at NVIDIA. She graduated from Haas School of Business at the UC Berkeley, with a focus in economics and IT. Renee was named one of the top 50 B2B product marketers to watch in 2016.

Shireen Atabaki, M.D., M.P.H., is a Medical Director, Informatics and Associate Director Telemedicine at Children's National Hospital in Washington D.C. She is also Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Atabaki’s area of expertise is in concussion and knowledge translation. Through her work, Dr. Atabaki has brought national and international recognition to pediatric concussion. She received the National Heroes Award for Research, awarded by the Maternal Child Health Bureau, for her leadership in research to reduce unnecessary CT scans and radiation in children with traumatic brain injury.

Michelle Holko, PhD, PMP had made it a lifelong passion to explore innovations in health data analytics and bioinformatics. Her technical background is in genomics, bioinformatics, technology and biosecurity. She is currently detailed as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the National Institutes of Health’s All Of Us Research Program, working on technology and data to better engage participants and researchers. Prior to this, she spent several years working at DARPA in the Biological Technologies Office on several efforts to use emerging technologies, wearable devices, disease forecasting and vaccine research to prevent and prepare for pandemics like the one we are experiencing now with COVID-19.

Kistein Monkhouse, MPH is the CEO & founder of Patient Orator, a digital health platform focused on using storytelling to improve patient experience and population health. She is a former healthcare frontline staff who saw an urgent need to build bridges across communities in healthcare. Her work is at the intersection of public and private health using stories to bring awareness to the importance of improving the health of people and communities with a focus on catalyzing storytelling to address social determinants of health. She is an award-winning documentarian of the documentary Humanizing Health Care, a narrative-driven emotionally paced documentary about healthcare experiences in the United States. She sits on the advisory board of We The Patients NY, an initiative by the Community Service Society of NY and NYS HIMSS Patient Advocacy Committee.

Co-Moderators: Davar Ardalan & Swathi Young

Davar Ardalan is the Founder and Storyteller in Chief of IVOW, specializing in AI-driven cultural content. She’s also an advisor to the non-profit AI Commons. Davar was a public media journalist for 20+ years, most of those at NPR News. In 2014, she was the recipient of a United States Ellis Island Medal of Honor, for individual achievement and for promoting cultural unity.

Swathi Young is the Chief Technology Officer at Integrity Management Services, Inc. In her more than two decades of technology experience, she has led over 100 projects globally -- in Belgium, India, and the US -- across e-commerce, supply chain, Hi-tech and financial sectors. She is a Women in AI Ambassador and founder of DC Emerging Technologies, a 2000+ member community that brings business leaders together to discuss applications of AI. Swathi recently co-authored the AI Playbook, a framework of implementing AI solutions for the US federal government.

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