3rd Annual IMDS Symposium
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2026
UW Center for Urban Horticulture
8:30 AM – 3:30 PM

8:30 – 9:00: Registration

9:00 – 9:30: Opening Remarks

Shawn Murphy, MD, PhD and Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, MD

9:30 – 10:00: UW Leadership Presentation

Andrew Connolly, PhD, Associate Vice Provost for Data Science and AI, Director of eScience Institute

Talk title: “Building out Data Science and AI across a Campus”

10:00 – 10:30: Keynote Speaker

Jeff Leek, PhD, Vice President and Chief Data Officer, Fred Hutch Cancer Center

Talk Title: “Building, Scaling and Using AI Engines“

10:30 – 10:45: Break 

10:45 – 11:45: Poster Lightning Talks

“Clinical validation of an explainable deep learning model for cancer detection and triaging in breast MRI screening”
– Presented by Suleeporn Sujichantararat (Yui), PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar (Radiology)

“Spatial Graph Neural Networks for Multiscale Treatment Response Prediction with Conformal Uncertainty in Metastatic NSCLC”
– Presented by Faisal Yaseen, PhD Student (BIME)

“Who Benefits, Who Is Harmed? Estimating the Distribution of Treatment Effects”
– Presented by Nolan Cole, PhD Student (Biostatistics)

“Evaluating Agentic AI for Infectious Disease Outbreak Modeling and Intervention-Specific Public Health Decision Support”
– Presented by Suphanat Wongsanuphat, MD, MS; PhD Student (BIME)

“Identifying American Indian and Alaska Native Patients at Risk for Unsuppressed Viral Load using Electronic Health Record Data”
– Presented by Haoyun (Elizabeth) Hong, PhD Student (BIME)

11:45 – 1:00: Lunch Break / Poster Viewing

Posters will be available for viewing all day in Merrill Commons
 – Researchers will be available to talk about their work during the last half hour of lunch (12:30-1:00)

1:00 – 2:30: Pilot Award Presentations (2024 and 2025 recipients)

“Using Temporality, Dose Effect, and Co-Medication to Improve Drug Safety Surveillance”
 – Presented by Trevor Cohen, PhD, BIME

“Multimodal Data and AI for Uncertainty-Aware Prediction of Lung Cancer Treatment Response”
 – Presented by Faisal Yaseen, PhD Student (BIME)

“Data Pipeline Development for Curation of Geriatric Trauma Outcome prognostication”
 – Presented by Zoljargal (Zoey) Lkhagvajav MD, Postdoctoral Scholar (BIME)

“AutoRELATE: Teaching Machines to Recognize Meaningful Connection in Clinical Encounters”
 – Presented by Aishwarya Raj, PhD Student (BIME)

“Machine Learning-based Analysis of Auditory Signal Processing to Predict Extubation Failure in Patients with Severe Acute Brain Injury”
– Presented by James Town MD, UW Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

2:30 – 3:00: Future Direction of IMDS

Shawn Murphy, MD, PhD, Chief Research Information Officer & Professor, BIME; Neurology

3:00 – 3:30: Closing Remarks

Shawn Murphy, MD, PhD, Chief Research Information Officer & Professor, BIME; Neurology

If you are joining us virtually, here is the link to the Zoom meeting, which will be monitored by an on-site moderator during presenters’ Q&A sessions.  The Meeting ID is 816 8406 0205, and the password is 631913.