As part of the 2025 Annual Meeting, the NAM hosted a scientific symposium titled, “Frontiers of AI & Health: Care, Discovery, and Education” on October 20, 2025. The event was held both virtually and in person at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, DC.
Frontiers of AI & Health: Care, Discovery, and Education Program
11:00 am–11:05 am Opening remarks from the Program Chair
Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD, Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology James W. Albers Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan
11:05 am–11:35 am Keynote Address: From Cell Atlases to Medicines, with AI
Aviv Regev, PhD, Head, Executive Vice President, Genentech
11:35 am–12:35 pm The AI-Powered Evolution of Health Care and Training
Moderator: Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, Emerita Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panelists:
Chris Longhurst, MD, MS, Chief Clinical and Innovation Officer, University of California, San Diego Health
Philip R. O. Payne, PhD, Vice Chancellor for BioInformatics and Data Science and Chief Health AI Officer, WashU Medicine and BJC Healthcare
Sarah C. Rossetti, RN, PhD, FAAN, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI, Associate Professor, Columbia University
12:35 pm–2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm–3:15 pm Reinventing Research: AI and the Future of Health Innovation
Moderator: Suchi Saria, PhD, Founder & CEO, Bayesian Health
Panelists:
Lovisa Afzelius, PhD, MBA, General Partner of Flagship Pioneering; Founding CEO and Co-founder of Metaphore Biotechnologies
Paul Harris, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI, Vice President for Research Informatics and Director of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Office of Research Informatics, Vanderbilt University
Peter Lee, President, Microsoft Research
Fiona Marshall, PhD, President of Biomedical Research, Novartis
3:15 pm–3:40 pm BREAK
3:40 pm–4:55 pm Building Trust: AI Governance and Ethics in Medicine and Health
Moderator: Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS, FAAP, FACMI, David L. Cohen, University Professor of Pediatrics, Informatics, Engineering and Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Panelists:
Robert Califf, MD, MACC, former United States Commissioner of Food and Drugs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
John D. Halamka, MD, MS, Dwight and Dian Diercks President, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Michael D. Brennan, M.D., President’s Strategic Initiative Professor
Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft
Vardit Ravitsky, PhD, President and CEO, Hastings Center for Bioethics
5:00 pm–6:15 pm President’s Forum: Health Leadership in Turbulent Times: Shaping Science, Medicine, Policy, and Trust in a New Era
Moderator: Victor J. Dzau, MD, President, National Academy of Medicine
Panelists:
The Honorable Alex Azar, II, JD, Former Secretary of Health and Human Services
Giselle Corbie, MD, MSc, Senior Vice Provost and Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine, UNC School of Medicine
Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, Former Chief Health Officer, Google
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Duke University
John Nkengasong, PhD, Executive Director, Higher Education, Collaboratives, and Strategic Initiatives, Mastercard Foundation
Elias Zerhouni, MD, President and Vice Chair, OPKO Health, Inc.
Introductions and Awards
In addition to the scientific program, the 2025 NAM Annual Meeting welcomed the 2024 class of NAM members, as well as the 2025 class of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows, NAM Fellows, NAM Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence, Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence, Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars, Inaugural State Health Policy Fellows, and the 2025 International Health Policy Fellow. The Annual Meeting will also feature the presentation of the Gustav O. Lienhard Award for Advancement of Health Care, the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, the David and Beatrix Hamburg Award for Advances in Biomedical Research and Clinical Medicine, the NAM Member Awards, and the NAM Cecil Awards.
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