Preliminary Schedule

The first day will feature presentations by local and international experts at Google Headquarters in Chicago, IL. This is a unique opportunity for attendees to learn about Endeavor Health’s innovative approach to integrating digital pathology and AI into their laboratory systems alongside comparative use cases from other hospital systems across North America. On the second day, attendees will be shuttled to Endeavor Health in Evanston to tour multiple laboratory spaces, following specimen collection, processing, and delivery to pathologist workstations and analysis.

Date/Location Time__(Central) Title/Subject Speaker
November 6, 2025 @Matter 4:00-6:00 pm "Innovation Meet-up" 

The workshop will kick off with a Thursday evening “Innovation Meet Up” at “Matter” – an incubator for healthcare start-ups. Attendees are invited to meet with vendors and local health start-ups for a sneak peek at what is on the horizon for advancements in healthcare. 		  
November 7, 2025 @Google HQ, Chicago, IL 7:00-8:00 am Registration/Check-In and Breakfast  
  8:00-8:10 am Opening Remarks  
Session I: Institutional/Clinical Practice and Vendor Collaborations 8:10-8:50 am Endeavor Health Presentation John Groth, MD
Director, Pathology Informatics, Innovation and Technology
Endeavor Team
Endeavor Health NorthShore Hospitals
  8:50-9:20 am Large institutional experience and lessons learned from working with cloud vendors, sandbox development of AI tools, and cloud compute benefits and challenges.
Associate Director of Clinical Informatics
UC Davis Medical Center
  9:20-10:10 am Innovating and Collaborating with Vendors in Pathology Deep-Dive Panel
  10:10-10:30 am Refreshment Break
(Google Workplace Tour for first group of 20 registrants (spot determined at time of registration - first come, first served))		  
Session II: DICOM and its role in DP-AI 10:30-11:00 am DICOM fundamentals, DICOM web, and the use of DICOM in clinical practice Steve Hart, PhD
Scientific Director, Division of Computational Pathology and Informatics
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
  11:00-11:30 am DICOM Standardization then expansion to Enterprise/Jurisdictional Scale Silvain J. Fradette
Director, Enterprise Architecture at CGI
  11:30-12:20 pm DP + AI Practical Innovation for Pathology
 Deep-Dive Panel
  12:20-1:10 pm LUNCH
(Google Workplace Tour for second group of 20 registrants (spot determined at time of registration - first come, first served))
  
Session III: Digitization, Automation, and DP-AI for building the AP Lab of the Future 1:10-1:40 pm Describing  automation, innovation, and transformational changes coming to create the AP Lab of the Future, from accessioning to slide scanning
Director, Digital Pathology
UT Southwestern
  1:40-2:10 pm "Describing automation, innovation, and transformation for the Pathologist - what is the potential for AI to improve signout? From task specific models to foundation models"
Director of Pathology Informatics
University of Louisville
  2:10-3:00 pm Automation, Innovation, and Transformation for the AP Lab of the Future
 Deep-Dive Panel
  3:00-3:20 pm Refreshment Break
(Google Workplace Tour for third and final group of 20 registrants (spot determined at time of registration - first come, first served))		  

Session IV: The Role of Foundation Models, Generative AI/LLMs, and Agentic AI in Pathology, with a deep dive into the Current State of Regulatory Affairs in DP-AI

 3:20-3:50 pm Generative and Agentic AI Use Cases in Pathology at the Departmental and Enterprise levels

V.K. Cody Bumgardner, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Assistant Dean for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, College of Medicine; Division Chief, Pathology Informatics; Director, IBI Center for Applied AI
  3:50-4:20 pm Innovation and Transformation are great, but what can we do NOW?: Regulatory Status and Future-proofing in an uncertain world

Panel: John Groth (moderator)
S. Joseph Sirintrapun, MD Clinical Director of Digital Pathology at Mass General Brigham
DP-AI Planning Committee Co-Chair

David McClintock, MD
Chair, Division of Computational Pathology and Artificial Intelligence, Mayo Clinic
DP-AI Planning Committee Co-Chair

Andrew Evans, MD, PhD, BSc
Chief of Pathology and Medical Director of Laboratory Medicine, Mackenzie Health
Pathology Clinical Lead of the Ontario Laboratory Medicine Program (OLMP)
  4:20-5:10 pm Vendor Partnerships to Navigate Regulatory Uncertainty

Deep-Dive Panel
The Emily Hotel 5:30-6:30 pm Cocktails and Networking  
The Emily Hotel 6:30-8:00 pm Banquet Dinner and Networking  
November 8, 2025 @Endeavor Health, Evanston, IL 7:00 am Shuttles Depart The Emily Hotel  
  7:45 am Arrive and breakfast at Endeavor Health, Evanston IL   
  8:15-8:45 am Endeavor Health "Tour Kick-Off" John Groth, MD
Director, Pathology Informatics, Innovation and Technology
Endeavor Team
Endeavor Health NorthShore Hospitals
  9:00-12:00 pm Rotating Tours of Endeavor Health Laboratories and Work Stations and Diamond Lab Partner Stations

Diamond Lab Partners (stay-tuned for additions):

Barco
Techcyte
Voicebrook