Mar 22, 2022  |  12:00pm - 1:00pm
T-CAIREM Talk (AI in healthcare)

Opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) for organ transplantation: T-CAIREM Speaker Series

Continuing Professional Development

Hosted by the Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM).

All are welcome. This event is CPD accredited for physicians. 

Speaker: Dr. Bo Wang, the inaugural Temerty Professor in AI Research and Education in Medicine and Assistant Professor in LMP

In this talk, Dr. Wang will:

  • discuss the opportunities and challenges of AI for organ transplantation
  • show a machine-learning model trained on hundreds of ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) cases that accurately predicts lung transplantation outcomes
  • present a novel AI system that can seamlessly track longitudinal follow-up data to identify patients at increased risk for complications after liver transplantation.

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Dr. Bo Wang is a tenure-track assistant professor with the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He holds a CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute and leads the AI team with the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at the University Health Network.