Past Series 2025-2026

2024–2025 Schedule

Date	Topic	Speaker
9/16/25	10 Years of the HCILS: A Conversation with Dr. Zak Kohane	Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD Chair of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Biomedical Informatics
9/23/25	A decade of clinical informatics fellowship training: how far we've come and where we're going	Jonathan Hron, MD Co-Founder the Boston Children’s Hospital Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program Pediatrician, Boston Children's Hospital
10/14/25	Clinical Informatics Through the Decades: What We've Learned and How We Work Now	Adam Wright, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Director of the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC)
10/28/25	Discussion with Bradley H. Crotty, Vice President, Chief Digital Officer Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network	Bradley H. Crotty, MD, MPH, FACP, FAMIA Vice President, Chief Digital Officer Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network Associate Professor Medical College of Wisconsin
11/4/25	VR in Medicine, with Mark Zhang DO, MMSc, FAMIA	Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS Director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai Director of Graduate Program in Health Systems The George and Dorothy Gourrich Chair in Digital Health Ethics
12/9/25	CxIO Panel - AI Implementation in Boston	Nancy Cibotti, MD Chief Innovation Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care, Associate Chief Information Officer, Beth Israel Lahey Health Rebecca Mishuris, MD, MPH, MS CMIO and VP, Mass General Brigham Chase Parsons, DO, MBI Chief Medical Information Officer, Boston Children's Hospital
12/16/25	JAMIA and Clinical Informatics Publication	Suzanne Bakken, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI Alumni Professor of Nursing and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
1/13/26	Federal Health IT Policy and Interoperability: Perspectives from CMS	William Gordon, MD Chief Informatics Officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at CMS Senior Advisor for Technology & Interoperability to the CMS Administrator
1/20/26	AI, EHRs, and Hard Problems: From Fragments to Patient Timelines	Guergana Savova, PhD Faculty in the Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at Boston Children's Hospital Patricia F. Brennan Chair and Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
1/27/26	How Ambient Listening Shapes Clinical Documentation: A Linguistic Comparison	Li Zhou, MD, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI, FAMIA Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School Lead Investigator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Faculty at the Mass General Brigham Center for AI and Biomedical Informatics for the Learning Health System
2/3/26	A Research Agenda for Clinical Informatics Based on the 2025 AMIA Informatics Year in Review	James Cimino, MD, FACMI, FACP, FNYAM, FAMIA, FIAHSI Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (DBIDS) at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine
2/10/26	Never a dull moment: How We Implement AI in a Rapidly Changing Landscape	Stephon N. Proctor, PhD, ABPP Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer for EHR Platform and Innovation at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2/24/26	Computerized Clinical Decision Support System in Management of Hypertension in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: Pragmatic Trial Results and Adverse Clinical Outcomes	Lipika Samal, MD Clinician Investigator in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School
3/24/26	Using HIT to Improve Safety	David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc. Medical Director of Clinical and Quality Analysis at Mass General Brigham (MGB) Co-Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics Learning Systems (CAIBILS) at MGB Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)
3/31/26	BCH Response to Stryker Cyberattack Panel	Brian Venditelli, MS Director of Cybersecurity for Boston Children’s Hospital Chase Parsons, DO, MBI Chief Medical Information Officer, Boston Children's Hospital Jonathan Hron, MD Co-Founder the Boston Children’s Hospital Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program Pediatrician, Boston Children's Hospital
4/7/26	Babies aren’t born with mobile phones - digital communication with pediatric patients and families	Natalie M. Pageler MD, MEd Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health (Clinical Informatics) at Stanford Medicine Clinical Professor and inaugural Division Chief of Clinical Informatics in the Department of Pediatrics
4/14/26	Deploying Validated AI into Practice via Pragmatic Clinical Trials	Colin G. Walsh, MD, MA, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
5/12/26	Without Special Effort: health data access, APIs, and agents	Josh Mandel, MD Chief Architect for Microsoft Healthcare Chief Architect for SMART Health IT Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics
5/19/26	Informatics and Child Health: Leading for Children	Susan J. Kressly, MD, FAAP 2026 Immediate Past President of the AAP