AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium Plenary Sessions
Opening Keynote Presentation
Michael Kearns, PhD
Sunday, November 10, 2024 | 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Michael Kearns, PhD will deliver our Opening Keynote Presentation titled, Ethical Algorithm Design to kick off the Annual Symposium.
Biography: Michael Kearns is a Professor and the National Center Chair in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research interests include machine learning, algorithmic game theory, quantitative finance, and related topics. He has secondary appointments in Penn’s Economics Department, and in the departments of Statistics and Operations, and Information and Decisions (OID) at the Wharton School. Kearns also has a role at Amazon as part of its Amazon Scholars program, focusing on algorithmic fairness, privacy, machine learning, and related topics within Amazon Web Services. He is the co-author of the general-audience book “The Ethical Algorithm” (with Aaron Roth; Oxford University Press 2019).
Kearns has worked extensively in quantitative and algorithmic trading on Wall Street (including at Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, SAC Capital, and Morgan Stanley). In the past he has served as an adviser to technology companies and venture capital firms. He has also occasionally served as an expert witness or consultant on technology-related legal and regulatory cases.
Kearns is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.
Closing Keynote Presentation
James Cimino, MD, FACMI, FACP, FAMIA
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | 11:15 am – 12:15 pm
James Cimino, MD, FACMI, FACP, FAMIA will deliver his comprehensive Year-in-Review to close out the Annual Symposium.
James Cimino is a board-certified, practicing internist with a long career in academic biomedical informatics. He is currently a Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine. Among other past professional roles, he has been a Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Columbia University and Chief of the Laboratory for Informatics Development at the NIH Clinical Center and National Library of Medicine. Research areas have included desiderata for controlled terminologies, clinical decision support, studying the information needs of clinicians and patients, and clinical research informatics.
