Research Roundtables

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Overview

The goal of the research roundtables is to foster discussion between the participants and senior researchers in the field on several topics of high relevance in the ML4H community. Each roundtable will have a small group of senior researchers and practitioners who are experts in the selected topics and a few junior chairs who will lead the discussion on open problems in ML4H which were crowdsourced from the community.

How to Participate

We will host in-person roundtables that will take place from 4:35-5:35 PM PST on December 1st and 10:25-11:30 AM PST on December 2nd, 2025 during ML4H. Participants are encouraged to pick up to 2 roundtables that they would like to join and engage in the discussion points proposed by the junior chairs and ask further questions to the senior chair.

We have a total of 7 research roundtables per day divided by topics. Each session will be split into two parts of 25 minutes, with a 10 minute break in the middle where participants can move to a different roundtable. To avoid the disruption of conversations, the participants should try to stay in the same roundtable for the extent of the 25min session.

Day 1 (4:35-5:35 PM PST on December 1st)

1. Clinician-AI collaboration 

Senior Chair: Leo Celi

Junior Chair: Huy Nghiem

2. Health AI and the patient experience

Senior Chair: Rushika Fernandopulle

Junior Chair: Akshay Paruchuri

3. Fairness

Senior Chair: Divya Shanmugam

Junior Chairs: Joanna G. Kondylis, Neha Srivastha

4. Population health & survival analysis 

Senior Chair: Harry Reyes Nieva

Junior Chair: Hayoung Jeong

5. Drug discovery

Senior Chair: Sumit Mukherjee

Junior Chairs: Shuvom Sadhuka, Jathurshan Pradeepkumar

6. Agentic AI

Senior Chair: Shengpu Tang

Junior Chairs: Chang-uk Jeong, Tony Sun

7. [Sponsored by Google] Open medically tuned FMs – what do they mean for healthcare

Senior Chairs: Yun Liu, Quang Duong, Can (“John”) Kirmizi

Day 2 (10:25-11:30 AM PST on December 2nd)

1. Regulation

Senior Chair: Haider Warraich

Junior Chair: Arun Kavishwar

2. Real-world evaluation

Senior Chair: Rahul Arora

Junior Chair: Asad Aali

3. Causality

Senior Chair: Shalmali Joshi

Junior Chair: Katie Matton

4. Large language models

Senior Chair: Karan Singhal

Junior Chairs: Li-Ching Chen, Xiaoke Huang

5. Deployment & integration

Senior Chair: Karandeep Singh

Junior Chairs: Alyssa Unell, Ayush Noori

6. Multi-modal foundation models

Senior Chair: Liyue Shen

Junior Chairs: Ashwin Kumar; Anurag Vidhya

7. [Sponsored by Google] Open medically tuned FMs – what do they mean for healthcare

Senior Chairs: Yun Liu, Quang Duong, Can (“John”) Kirmizi