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SUMMARY:AI for Future Healthcare - Bjoern Eskofier\, Ludwig-Maximilians-Un
 iversität (LMU) Munich
DTSTART:20260224T160000Z
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CONTACT:Cecilia Mascolo
DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods
  are currently a “hot topic” in medicine. The driver of AI or ML metho
 d employment\, in medicine as well as in other domains\, is the availabili
 ty of digital data. Here\, the potential of delivering more objective\, pr
 ecise\, and personalized medical diagnosis and care decisions is by far no
 t reached. The reason is that the current healthcare data infrastructure\,
  both nationally and internationally\, lacks interoperability and interfac
 es on several different levels (individual\, institutional\, device\, and 
 provider level\, just to name a few). The health data infrastructure for f
 uture healthcare needs to address this. One favored solution is “persona
 l health dataspaces”\, which put individuals at the center of health dat
 a (figure) and create new opportunities for AI and ML applications.\nThe t
 alk will present the core idea of personal health dataspaces and hint at s
 ome opportunities for the future AI-driven “digital” healthcare system
  that emerge from it. It will open up new possibilities in healthcare\, wh
 ich will hopefully contribute to delivering more objective\, precise\, and
  personalized medical diagnosis and care decisions.\n \n\n\nBjoern M. Es
 kofier (SM\, IEEE) currently directs the Institute for AI in Medicine (I-A
 IM) at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). Until September 2025\, 
 he headed the Machine Learning and Data Analytics (MaD) Lab at the Friedri
 ch-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuernberg (FAU). Bjoern also served as fo
 unding spokesperson of FAU’s Department Artificial Intelligence in Biome
 dical Engineering (AIBE)\, spokesperson of the German Ministry of Economic
  Affairs and Climate Action GAIA-X usecase project “TEAM-X” and co-dir
 ector of the German Research Foundation collaborative research center “E
 mpkinS” (www.empkins.de). Since April 2023\, he is an associate principa
 l investigator and leader of the research group “Translational Digital H
 ealth” at the Helmholtz Zentrum Munich.\nDr. Eskofier studied Electrical
  Engineering at the FAU and graduated in 2006. He then did his PhD in Biom
 echanics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Benno Nigg at the University o
 f Calgary (Canada). He authored more than 400 peer reviewed articles\, hol
 ds 5 patents\, started three spinoff startup companies\, and is in a suppo
 rting role for further startups. He won several medical-technical research
  awards\, including the “Curious Minds” award 2021 in “Life Sciences
 ” by Manager Magazin and Merck and the “Unipreneurs” award 2023 from
  the German Minster of Education and Research and the German Minister for 
 Economy. In 2016\, he was a visiting professor in Prof. Paolo Bonato’s M
 otion Analysis Lab at Harvard Medical School (February-March)\, in 2018\, 
 he was a visiting professor in Prof. Alex “Sandy” Pentland’s Human D
 ynamics group at MIT Media Lab (March-August)\, and in 2023 (April-August\
 , he was a visiting professor in Prof. Scott Delp’s NMBL lab that is par
 t of Stanford University’s Schools of Engineering and Medicine. He serve
 s as Area Editor for the “IEEE Open Access Journal of Engineering in Med
 icine and Biology” and Associate Editor for the “IEEE Journal of Biome
 dical and Health Informatics”. He is also active in the organization of 
 several IEEE and ACM meetings (e.g.\, BSN\, BHI\, EMBC\, IJCAI\, ISWC\, Ub
 iComp)\, recently as General Chair of BHI (IEEE Biomedical and Health Info
 rmatics Conference) 2023.\nBjoern Eskofier has defined his research and en
 trepreneurial agenda to revolve around contributions to a “Digital Healt
 h Ecosystem”\, where patients are connected to other stakeholders within
  the Healthcare system using digital support tools. His digital health res
 earch philosophy is that only multidisciplinary teams of engineers\, medic
 al experts\, industry representatives and entrepreneurs will have the tool
 s to actually implement changes in healthcare.\n
LOCATION:Computer Lab\, FW11 and Online
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