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Date: Monday, April 26, 2021
Time: 9-10am Pacific / 12-1pm Eastern
Presenter: Safwan Halabi, MD
Title: “Functionality of Federated Learning for Artificial Intelligence Analysis of Patient Data”

About the Speaker

Dr. Safwan Halabi

Safwan Halabi, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and serves as the Medical Director for Radiology Informatics at Stanford Children’s Health. He is board-certified in Radiology with Certificate of Added Qualification in Pediatric Radiology. He is also board-certified in Clinical Informatics. He clinically practices obstetric and pediatric imaging at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Halabi’s clinical and administrative leadership roles are directed at improving quality of care, efficiency, and patient safety. He has also led strategic efforts to improve the enterprise imaging platforms at Stanford Children’s Health. He is a strong advocate of patient-centric care and has helped guide policies for radiology report and image release to patients. He has published in peer-reviewed journals on various clinical and informatics topics. His current academic and research interests include imaging informatics, deep/machine learning in imaging, artificial intelligence in medicine, clinical decision support and patient-centric health care delivery. He is currently the Chair of the RSNA Informatics Data Science Committee and serves as a Board Member for the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine.