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| Date/Location | Time__(Central) | Title/Subject | Speaker |
| November 6, 2025 @Matter 222 W. Merchandise Mart, Suite 228 |
4:00-6:00 pm (Confirmed) Light Refreshments Provided. |
"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. |
Remarks by MATTER CEO, Steven Collens |
| November 7, 2025 @Google HQ, Chicago, IL 320 N. Morgan Street, Suite 600 |
7:00-7:45 am | Registration/Check-In and Breakfast | |
| 7:45-7:55 am | Opening Remarks | Ryan Terry, Managing Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences at Google Cloud | |
| Session I: Institutional/Clinical Practice and Vendor Collaborations - Moderated By Dr. David McClintock | 7:55-8:45 am | "Patient Centered Digital Pathology and Artificial Intelligence: The Endeavor Health Journey" | John Groth, MD
Director, Pathology Informatics, Innovation and Technology
Endeavor Team
Endeavor Health NorthShore Hospitals
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| 8:45-9:15 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
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| 9:15-9:35 am | Platinum Vendor Presentation “Architecting the Digital Pathology Platform: Scalability, Security, and Speed” |
AHEAD With over 25 years in enterprise IT, Bill has built a career at the intersection of technology and healthcare innovation. His work focuses on designing resilient digital infrastructures that support clinical applications and data-intensive workflows across complex healthcare environments. Bill’s deep understanding of vendor ecosystems, application performance, and the need for reliability in patient-care systems has guided his leadership in modernizing data center, cloud, and security architectures. Within pathology informatics, he has been closely involved in enabling digital pathology and AI-based image analysis platforms, helping institutions manage, store, and analyze high-resolution diagnostic data securely and at scale. His perspective bridges the technical and clinical worlds to advance diagnostic accuracy, research, and collaboration in modern healthcare. |
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| 9:35-10:15 am | Innovating and Collaborating with Vendors in Pathology |
Deep-Dive Panel Bill Tohtz, AHEAD Sunit Kolhe, CitiusTech |
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| 10:15-10:30 am | Refreshment Break (Google Workplace Tour for first group registrants (spot determined at time of registration - first come, first served)) |
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| Session II: DICOM and its role in DP-AI - Moderated By Dr. John Groth | 10:30-11:00 am | "Fundamentals of DICOM and DICOMweb" | Steve Hart, PhD
Scientific Director, Division of Computational Pathology and Informatics
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
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| 11:00-11:30 am | "Building a Digital Pathology Ecosystem through collaboration and DICOM Standardization" | Sylvain J. Fradette
Director Enterprise Architect (CGI) |
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| 11:30-12:20 pm | DP + AI Practical Innovation for Pathology |
Deep-Dive Panel Proscia Dr. Steve Hart Sylvain Fradette |
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| 12:20-1:10 pm | LUNCH (Google Workplace Tour for second group of registrants (spot determined at time of registration - first come, first served)) |
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| Session III: Digitization, Automation, and DP-AI for building the AP Lab of the Future - Moderated by Dr. Andrew Evans | 1:10-1:40 pm |
"Slide Hustle: From Tissue to Glass in the Next Era of Pathology" |
Director, Digital Pathology
UT Southwestern
Dr. Alexander Banerjee 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" |
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| 2:10-3:00 pm | Automation, Innovation, and Transformation for the AP Lab of the Future |
Deep-Dive Panel Curtis Weeks, Dolbey |
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| 3:00-3:20 pm | Refreshment Break (Google Workplace Tour for third group of registrants (spot determined at time of registration - first come, first served)) |
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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 - Moderated By Dr. Dibson Dibe Gondim |
3:20-3:50 pm | "The development and application of foundation and generative AI model in pathology" |
V.K. Cody Bumgardner, PhD |
| 3:50-4:20 pm | "Future-Proofing Now: Navigating Regulation in Uncertain Times" |
S. Joseph Sirintrapun, MD Clinical Director of Digital Pathology at Mass General Brigham David McClintock, MD Andrew Evans, MD, PhD, BSc |
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| 4:20-5:10 pm | Vendor Partnerships to Navigate Regulatory Uncertainty |
Deep-Dive Panel |
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| 5:10-5:15 pm | Closing Remarks |
Lisa-Jean Clifford |
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The Emily Hotel 311 N. Morgan Street, Suite 600 |
5:30-6:30 pm | Cocktails and Networking | |
| The Emily Hotel | 6:30-8:00 pm | Banquet Dinner and Networking | |
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November 8, 2025 @Endeavor Health, Evanston, IL 2650 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL |
7:00 am | Shuttles Depart The Emily Hotel | Breakfast boxes and coffee/tea generously sponsored by Artera, distributed at The Emily Hotel |
| 7:45 am | Arrive and breakfast at Endeavor Health, Evanston IL | ||
| 8:15-8:45 am | Endeavor Health "Tour Kick-Off" Matt Charles, System Vice President Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at Endeavor Health |
John Groth, MD
Director, Pathology Informatics, Innovation and Technology
Endeavor Team
Endeavor Health NorthShore Hospitals
Kenneth Philbrick, Digital Pathology, Google Research (Health AI)
Google Cloud |
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| 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): |
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| 12:30/1:00 PM | Shuttle buses return to The Emily Hotel |