Professor Karin Verspoor is Dean of the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Karin’s research primarily focuses on the use of artificial intelligence methods to enable biological discovery and clinical decision support, through extraction of information from clinical texts and the biomedical literature and machine learning-based modelling.
Karin held previous posts as Director of Health Technologies and Deputy Head of the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, as the Scientific Director of Health and Life Sciences at NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
She is also the Victorian Node lead and co-founder of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Health.
Keynote Speech Title: “Patient Centric Education in the Digital Age”
Mr. Bauer is the Executive Director of Patient Education at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Recognized by the National Academy of Science & Medicine as an exemplar in implementing the 10 attributes of a health literate organization, he has also presented at their Roundtable discussion on “Making the Case for Health Literacy.” His work has been featured in two AHRQ case studies and two VHA Blueprints.
Mr. Bauer has served as an advisor to the American Hospital Association’s Opioid Collaborative and PFAC collaboratives. He received the prestigious Eagle Award for his commitment to improving health outcomes in North Carolina. Additionally, he is a member of the International Health Literacy Association’s Standing Committee on Practice Standards.
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