AI & Cancer Symposium

When: May 4, 2026. 9AM–2PM 
Where: NRB Auditorium, UCLA Campus

9:00am

Welcome & Opening Remarks by Event Organizers

Aditya Bardia, MD, MPH, FASCO
Program Director, Breast Medical Oncology,
Assistant Chief (Translational Research), Division of Hematology-Oncology
Professor of Medicine, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director of Translational Research Integration
Member, Signal Transduction and Therapeutics
UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Heather Christofk, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry,
Director of Basic and Translational Research
Member, Signal Transduction and Therapeutics
UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Co-Director, UCLA Metabolomics Center
Member, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research

9:10am

"Clinical & Operational AI at UCLA Health"

Paul Lukac, MD, MBA, MS
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Chief AI Officer, UCLA Health

9:30am

"Shaping the Future of Health AI at UCLA and Beyond"

Katherine P. Andriole, PhD, FACR, FSIIM, FSPIE
Associate Dean for Health AI Strategy and Innovation, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director UCLA Center for AI and SMART Health

9:50am

"Computational Strategies for Accelerating Diagnostics and Drug Discovery"

Neil (Yen-Chih) Lin, PhD
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineeering, Bioengineering, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

10:10am

Break

10:30am

"Applied AI in Cancer Care"

Gavin Hui, MD
Instructor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

10:50am

"Accessing and Using 'Big Data' from Electronic Health Records and Other Sources"

Douglas Bell, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, UCLA Health

11:10am 

Lunch

11:45am

"What Does the 'Responsible Use' of AI Mean in Today's Quickly Changing Technical Environment?"

Alex Bui, PhD
Director, Medical & Imaging Informatics Group 
Professor, Department of Radiological Sciences
David Geffen Chair in Informatics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

12:05pm

"AI in Cancer Diagnosis: Promise, Performance, and the Human-AI Factor"

Joann G. Elmore, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Medicine, General Internal Medicine and Health Sciences Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

12:25pm

"Transformer Models to Predict the Origins of Individual Molecules Based on 5m-cytosine Methylation Patterns"

Paul Spellman, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director, Precision Health, UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

12:45pm

Break

1:00pm

Webinar Panel

Eric Cheng, MD, MS
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, UCLA Health Sciences
UCLA Health Sciences Professor of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Amy Cummings, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director, Lung Cancer Screening and Clinical Trial Access, UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

David Elashoff, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine, General Internal Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director, Department of Medicine Biostatistics Core

Arash Naiem, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering
Neria and Manizheh Yomtoubian Endowed Chair in Cancer and Risk Sciences
Co-Director, UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Chief Medical Officer for Clinical Research (CMO-CR), UCLA Health
Associate Dean for Clinical Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Director, Informatics Shared Resource, UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

2:00pm

Symposium Ends