AI Healthcare Challenges and Opportunities for Underrepresented Communities

Описание: Session Description:
At-risk populations and communities have access barriers to AI health services. These barriers are related to infrastructure, economics, policy, ethics, culture and awareness among other factors. This presentation will review current information and scientific data related to this subject matter and also look at promising models for implementing equitable solutions.

Speaker:
Dominic H. Mack, M.D., MBA is a Professor of Family Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and serves as Director of the National Center for Primary Care (NCPC). Dominic leads NCPC’s promotion of health equity and population health through the development of strategies to further research, innovations, and trainings that advance primary care systems. NCPC concentrates program development in four areas: Big Data Health Equity Research, Health Policy, Substance Use Prevention and Treatment, and Digital Health.

He is the Principal Investigator and Director of the National COVID-19 Resiliency Network (NCRN), an Office of Minority Health cooperative agreement with MSM. Dominic is founder and past president of Mack Medical Consultants, a health advisory company dedicated to the improvement of business practices in medical organizations. Dr. Mack has practiced in Georgia for many years and served in various local, state, and national leadership roles within non-profit and for-profit organizations including service in the US Federally Qualified Health Center system. Dominic strives to develop national partnerships in rural and urban communities to implement equitable and sustainable community-based interventions for better health outcomes for all people.