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May 18, 2023

All times are Eastern Time (ET).
Time Session
10:00 a.m. Bianca's Story: Turning Pain into Action
Bianca Dickerson-Williams, JD
Founder and Executive Director, Fighting Our Injustices for Women of Color
10:15 a.m. Welcome from the AAMC
Philip M. Alberti, PhD
Founding Director, AAMC Center for Health Justice


Carla S. Alvarado, PhD, MPH
Director of Research, AAMC Center for Health Justice
10:20 a.m. From Story to Data: Understanding Natural Language Processing
Maria Antoniak, PhD
Young Investigator, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
10:50 a.m. From Data to Research: NLP & Maternal Health Use Cases 
Allan Fong, MS
Senior Research Scientist and Data Scientist, MedStar Health

Angela D. Thomas, DrPH, MPH, MBA
Vice President, Healthcare Delivery Research, MedStar Health

Mark Clapp, MD, MPH
Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist, Physician Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital

Anna Wexler, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Amulya Yadav, PhD
Assistant Professor, PNC Technologies Career Development and Associate Director, Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Penn State University
11:45 a.m. Break
12:00 p.m.  A Socially Conscious Approach to NLP: Addressing Bias and Racism  
Ruha Benjamin, PhD
Professor, Department of African American Studies, Princeton University and Founding Director, Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab

Moderator: Karey M. Sutton, PhD
Scientific Director, Health Equity Research, MedStar Health Research Institute
12:30 p.m.  Crowdsourcing Exercise:  Principles of Trustworthy NLP use in Maternal Health 
2:00 p.m. From Data to Action: What Public Health, Hospitals and Health Systems Can Do
Justin Schonfeld, PhD
Research Scientist, Public Health Agency of Canada

Carlos Siordia, PhD, MS
Lead Interdisciplinary Epidemiologist, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

Simon Linwood, MD, MBA
Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Officer, University of California Riverside Health and School of Medicine  

Janette Robinson Flint
Executive Director, Black Women for Wellness

Moderator: Karey M. Sutton, PhD
Scientific Director, Health Equity Research, MedStar Health Research Institute
2:50 p.m. Drawing Change Workshop Summary
Yolanda Liman, Drawing It Out