The nonprofit, dubbed the Coalition for Health AI, is composed of representatives from more than 1,300 member entities, including hospital systems, technology companies, government agencies and advocacy groups, according to a March 4 news release.
The coalition is setting out to establish a network of laboratories across the country to test healthcare artificial intelligence tools.
Here are the nine leaders appointed to the board of the nonprofit organization:
- Chair: John Halamka, MD, president of Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Platform
- Secretary and treasurer: Michael Pencina, PhD, chief data scientist of Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health
- Suchi Saria, PhD, endowed chair and AI professor at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins
- Nigam Shah, MD, PhD, chief data scientist at Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Health Care
- Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD, chief scientific officer at Microsoft
- Morgan Cheatham, vice president of Bessemer Venture Partners
- Jennifer Goldsack, CEO of Digital Medicine Society
- Federal liaison: Troy Tazbaz, director of the FDA’s Digital Health Center of Excellence
- Federal liaison: Micky Tripathi, PhD, national coordinator for health information technology in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
