TOPICS, TOOLS, AND USE CASES SESSION SCHEDULE
MARCH 10, 2025
12:00pm to 1:00pm, Pacific
Navigating Responsible Use of Health AI in Serious Illness Care
Brian Anderson, MD, President and CEO, Coalition for Health AI
This session will focus on a describing the principles and technical specifics of Responsible AI as they apply to several use-cases in serious illness care, including palliative care, hospice care, advance directives, as well as several others. We will focus on how to apply these principles and mitigate certain challenges in AI, including bias, governance, and model alignment. Objectives:
• Understand the Principles of Responsible Health AI across a model’s life cycle
• Understand how to deploy, configure, and govern AI models in clinical use-cases
• Discuss the application of these principles into specific serious illness care scenarios
• Become familiar with how to mitigate specific forms of bias and challenges with model alignment
MARCH 28, 2025
12:00pm to 1:00pm, Pacific
AI Decoded: Basics and Applications of AI for Serious Illness Care Providers
Catherine Shoults, PhD, Vice President, Analytics, SymBiosis
In this presentation, Dr. Shoults will outline the basics of AI and machine learning for a clinical audience. She’ll cover the types of AI and ML and how they are created, provide an overview of applications and ethical considerations of AI/ML for serious illness care, and give a glimpse into the future of AI and how it will affect those providing compassionate care to seriously ill patients and their families. This presentation will provide an excellent foundation for those new to the field or anyone needing a framework for understanding the rapid evolution of AI in our domain.
Objectives:
• Differentiate the different types of AI, how they are created and applied
• Describe current and future applications of AI for serious illness care
• Evaluate impacts of AI on serious illness care providers, patients, and caregivers
Dr. Anderson is president and CEO of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), a national coalition of stakeholders to listen, learn, and collaborate to drive the development, evaluation, and appropriate use of AI in healthcare. Prior to CHAI, Dr. Anderson was the Chief Digital Health Physician at MITRE where he led research and development efforts across major strategic initiatives in Digital Health, including partnering with the United States Government and private sector organizations. Dr. Anderson is an internationally recognized expert, author, and speaker on digital health innovation, health AI assurance and best practices, health standards development, clinical decision support systems, and interoperability. Dr. Anderson trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and also practiced at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. He received his MD with honors from Harvard Medical School, and a BA in Social Anthropology, cum laude from Harvard College.
Dr. Shoults focuses on creating cloud-based tools and automation using artificial intelligence and machine learning to support investment and operational processes across the firm. Prior to SymBiosis, she was the director of Drug Development at Orbis Biosciences, where she led regulatory, preclinical, and clinical development. She earned her PhD in Biomedical Informatics with an emphasis in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, an MPH with an emphasis in Epidemiology of Microbial Disease from Yale University, and a BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry from Missouri State University.
National Healthcare Decisions Day
12:00pm to 1:30pm, Pacific
AI for Advance Care Planning
This session will focus on the uses of AI to facilitate advance care planning and goals of care conversations. Four innovative physicians will describe their work and the challenges associated with introducing machine intelligence into conversations that touch our most human features: vulnerability, frailty, fear, hope, mortality, and compassion.
Presentations and discussion by:
• Finly Zachariah, MD, Supportive Care Physician, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer and Medical Director, Informatics and Value-based Supportive Care for City of Hope and Chief Medical Office for Empower Hope
• Matt Gonzales, MD, FAAHPM, Associate Vice President, Chief Medical and Operations Officer for Providence Institute for Human Caring
• Jonathan Handler, MD, Medical Informaticist and Senior Fellow, Innovation, OSF HealthCare, Chicago
• Charlotta Lindvall, MD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and physician, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
• Moderator: Jennifer Moore Ballentine, MA, Chief Executive Officer, Coalition for Compassionate Care of California
Objectives:
• Explain how AI is being used to facilitate the advance care planning process
• Identify two risks and two potential benefits of using AI in ACP
Dr. Finly Zachariah is recognized as a compassionate and highly skilled supportive medicine physician, providing symptom management, pain control, and palliative care for adult and pediatric patients. He is board certified in family medicine, hospice & palliative medicine, and clinical informatics. After earning his medical degree from Chicago Medical School, he completed a Family Medicine/Tropical Medicine residency in Whittier at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, followed by a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine at Kaiser in Los Angeles. Combining his training in tropical medicine with his humanitarian values, Dr. Zachariah has volunteered significant time in underserved parts of the world teaching palliative care and helping patients in Cameroon, Zambia, India, and Ethiopia.
Dr. Matthew Gonzales is a board-certified palliative medicine physician and 2017 Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program awardee. He completed his undergraduate degree at Stanford University. He subsequently worked as a software engineer, helping to develop a publicly available database that allows clinicians to tailor treatment for persons infected with HIV. Dr. Gonzales attended the Keck USC School of Medicine and completed his Internal Medicine residency and Palliative Medicine fellowship at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). Since completing his training he has held faculty positions at both UCSF and City of Hope. He recently received an Emerging Leader award by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and now serves as the chief medical officer for the Institute for Human Caring at Providence Institute for Human Caring. The Institute was the recipient of CCCC’s first ACP Innovation Award in 2024 for their “Trusted Decision Maker” program.
Dr. Jonathan Handler is a Medical Informaticist and Emergency Physician focused on entrepreneurship and innovation in advanced data analytics, AI/machine learning, telehealth, and other clinical applications, with a proven track record of building high-performing, data-driven businesses. He has more than a decade of clinical experience in high-volume, high-acuity care and more than 20 years of experience in creating healthcare software and implementing solutions. Dr. Handler is an award-winning lecturer and educator, published researcher, and entrepreneur.
Dr. Charlotta Lindvall is an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician in the Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at the DanaFarber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. She is board certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Internal Medicine. Dr. Lindvall’s research focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence, particularly natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning, to enhance the quality of palliative care. In 2018, Dr. Lindvall was named a Sojourns Scholar by the Cambia Health Foundation, recognizing her innovative work in integrating AI with palliative care. Dr. Lindvall is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the Boston area, including Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She earned her MD and PhD in medical genetics from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and pursued fellowships in Palliative Medicine and General Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Jennifer Moore Ballentine, MA, is CEO of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, guiding the work of the only crosssector healthcare-focused organization in the state. She has held leadership positions in several palliative and end-of-life care associations and institutes over nearly 25 years. In another life, she was an editor and book producer of textbooks and conference proceedings in artificial intelligence and advanced computer science, working closely with the foundational generations of AI theorists, scientists, and thought leaders.
TOPICS, TOOLS, AND USE
Zoominars are FREE to CCCC members $49.00 for non-members
March 10, 2025 | 12:00 PM − 1:00 PM Pacific
1 CE for Nurses and Social Workers
Navigating Responsible Use of Health AI for Serious Illness
March 28, 2025 | 12:00 PM − 1:00 Pacific
1 CE for Nurses and Social Workers
AI Decoded: Basics and Applications of AI for Serious Illness Care Providers
April 16, 2025 | 12:00 PM − 1:30 Pacific
1.5 CE for Nurses and Social Workers
AI for Advance Care Planning
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