Dr. Maia Hightower to Deliver the 2024 Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lecture, May 15, 2024

Dr. Maia Hightower, MD, MPH, MBA, CEO and Founder of Equality AI, will deliver the 2024 Joseph Leiter National Library of Medicine (NLM)/Medical Library Association (MLA) Lecture.

She is a leading voice in the intersection of healthcare, digital transformation, and health equity. She is a champion for responsible artificial intelligence (AI), ensuring that the digital future of healthcare is equitable and just.

Dr. Hightower is a four-time C-suite physician executive with 15 years of executive leadership spanning healthcare IT, medical affairs, and population health across four academic medical centers, clinically integrated networks, and healthcare tech companies. She is the former Executive Vice-President, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at University of Chicago Medicine.

She is an internationally sought after speaker on responsible AI and digital health equity for academic, government, consumer, and industry audiences.

Dr. Hightower received her BA at Cornell University, her MD and MPH from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, followed by residencies in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego. She also holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Lecture Title: Responsible AI in Healthcare: A Practical Approach
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. EDT
Livestream the NIH VideoCast: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=54584

Lecture Description: AI has the potential to transform healthcare and improve health outcomes, but it also poses ethical, legal, and social challenges. Dr. Hightower will discuss some of the principles and practices of responsible AI in healthcare, drawing on her experience as a CEO and a physician. Dr. Hightower will share some examples of how AI can be used to enhance patient care, clinical decision making, and health equity, as well as some of the risks and pitfalls to avoid. She will also offer some recommendations on how to foster a culture of trust, transparency, and accountability in the development and deployment of AI in healthcare.

The Joseph Leiter NLM/MLA Lecture was established in 1983 to stimulate intellectual liaison between MLA and NLM. Leiter was a major contributor in cancer research at the National Cancer Institute and a leader at NLM as a champion of medical librarians and an informatics pioneer. He served as NLM Associate Director for Library Operations from 1965 to 1983.