Keynote Speakers

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AI in Healthcare and Research: Toward a National Knowledge Ecosystem

Blackford Middleton, MD, MPH, MSc – AI in Healthcare and Research

Dr. Blackford Middleton focused his career on accelerating the translation of knowledge into clinical practice. Now a retired professor of medicine, and of biomedical informatics, he led research and development in clinical informatics at Stanford, Harvard, and Vanderbilt Universities, and advises startups in knowledge engineering and decision support at scale.

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Tides of Change: Science changes as new information and ideas supplant old ones; some return again; or Pandemics, Polemics, Politics, & Poppycock

Richie Kahn, MD – History of Medicine and Medical Publishing
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Dr. Kahn, an internist and medical historian, grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University and Tufts University School of Medicine. He has been active in several organizations devoted to medical history, most notably the American Association for the History of Medicine and the American Osler Society.

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Retractions Are On The Rise – But Not Enough

Ivan Oransky, MD – Retraction Watch and Integrity in Publishing
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Dr. Oransky is co-founder of Retraction Watch, editor in chief of Spectrum, and distinguished writer in residence at New York University's Arthur Carter Journalism Institute. He previously was vice president of editorial at Medscape, global editorial director of MedPage Today, executive editor of Reuters Health, and held editorial positions at Scientific American and The Scientist.