Registration and Breakfast

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Moderator: Dr. Marion J. Ball, UT Arlington

Keynote

“Practice of Trustworthy and Responsible AI Operations in Health Care”

Dr. Wendy Chapman
Associate Dean for Health Informatics and Chief Learning Health Officer, UT Southwestern

Moderator: Dr. Mujeeb A. Basit, UT Southwestern

Presentation

“AI and Informatics Legislation –  Outcomes the 2025 Session”

Nora Cox
Chief Executive Officer of the Texas e-Health Alliance

Moderator: Dr. Susan Fenton, UTHealth- Houston

Panel

“Ethical Cybersecurity”

Dr. Syed AbuMusab, Assistant Professor, UT Arlington
Dr. Phil Beckett, CEO, Texas Health Services Authority
Carolyn Petersen, Senior Editor, MayoClinic.org

Moderator: Dr. David Gibbs, Texas State University

Lightning Talks

“Critical Results Notification System in the Electronic Health Record Advancing Radiology and Patient Care” Dr. Estefanie Garduno Rapp, UT Southwestern

“Use of GenAI in creating case studies for immersive Virtual Reality Simulations (iVRS)” Katherine Kreis, UT Arlington

“Health Literacy 3.0: Culturally-Aware AI for Inclusive Health Engagement” Karina Lupercio, Healthcare Highways

Moderator: Dr. Marion J. Ball, UT Arlington

Poster Session

“Acceptance of Machine Learning in Exercise and Health Informatics”
Ian Abeyta, University of North Texas

”Trustworthy AI in Saudi Healthcare: Ethical CDSS Implementation”
Sultan Alanzai, University of North Texas

”Cataloging the Biomedical Traditions of Pakistan: A Taxonomic Approach”
Kinza Alizai, University of North Texas

“Leveraging AI Chatbot Systems to Improve Maternal Health Access in Maternal Care Deserts”
Lauri Billingsley, UT Arlington

“Synthetic Oncology Data Generation & Evaluation Using Large Language Models”
Laxmigayathri Challa, University of North Texas

“Using community-based asset mapping for Emergency Preparedness Planning In North Texas”
Cassandra Davila, UT Arlington

“From Keyword Extraction to Automated Concept Mapping: Building a Dental
Informatics Taxonomy using Large Language Models”
Sai Donepudi, University of North Texas

”Accelerated Wound Regeneration through Pulsed Negative Pressure Therapy:
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Personalized Healthcare”
Vy Duong, UT Arlington

“Expanding Access, Evolving Use: Patterns in Patient Portal Engagement from 2019 to
2022”
Dr. Mikyoung Lee, Texas Woman’s University

“Monte Carlo Augmentation for Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Prediction”
Dr. Lavinia Pieptea, University of North Texas

“Leveraging Technology and the Electronic Medical Record to Improve Refill
Processing”
Sylvia Ramirez, UT Southwestern

“Purifying Low-Abundance MHC-Ib Peptides in Tumor Cells”
Adrian Reyes, UT Arlington

“Large Language Model Driven healthcare Support for Rural Texas Empowering Nurse Practitioners with AI-Based Decision Support”
S M Saiful Islam Badhon, University of North Texas

“Low-Resource Diabetic Retinopathy Screening via AUM-ST with Vision Transformer”
S M Saiful Islam Badhon, University of North Texas

“Human Activity Recognition Based on Electrocardiogram Data Only”
Dr. Kewei Sha, University of North Texas

“Development of TCRm Antibodies Targeting Qa-1b Presenting Non-Canonical Peptides for Tumor Immunology”
Julie Tran, UT Arlington

“Optimizing Clinical Dashboards to Reduce Click Burden”
Harichandra Vennelakanti, UT Southwestern

“NaviDoc: A Multimodal RAG-based Clinical Chatbot for Contextual EHR Analysis”
Gowtham Vuppaladhaim, University of North Texas

“An Evaluation of Ambient Artificial Intelligence Scribes at Two Academic Medical
Centers”
Dr. Janet Webb, UT Southwestern

“Data Fusion and Quality Enhancement for Medical Concept Normalization by LLMs”
Yuhan Zhou, University of North Texas

Lunch and Networking

Exhibitor Hall
Arlington Convention & Visitors Bureau
HIMSS Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter
Seniormatics
Texas State University Department of Health Informatics & Information Management
Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing
University of North Texas College of Information
University of Texas at Arlington Center for Innovation in Health Informatics
UT Health Houston McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
UT Southwestern Clinical Informatics Center

Birds of a Feather Sessions with THIA Working Group Chairs
Research Working Group (Chair: Dr. Mikyoung Lee)
Data Working Group (Chair: Lorrie Burkhalter)
Education and Workforce Development Working Group (Chair: Dr. Jennifer Roye)
Policy and Standards Working Group (Chair: Katherine Lusk)

Keynote

“Best Practices for AI Security”

Lisa Bazis
Chief Information Security Officer, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Moderator: Dr. Mikyoung Lee, Texas Woman’s University

Panel

“What’s Next for AI in Health Care”

Dr. Sharon Blackerby, Clinical Assistant Professor, UT Arlington
Dr. Susan Fenton, Associate Vice President for Medical AI Chair, UT Health Houston
Herman Oosterwijk, President, Otech Inc.
Dr. Joni Padden, Chief Nursing Information Officer, Texas Health Resources
Krish Purushothaman, Vice President & Practice Head of Implementation Services, Citius Tech Healthcare Worldwide

Moderator: Dr. Ana Cleveland, University of North Texas

Closing remarks

Moderator: Dr. Marion J. Ball, UT Arlington