Talks and Presentations

William Hersh, MD gives frequent talks and presentations about biomedical informatics, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and related topics. Some recent presentations, with PDF of slides and references for latest given, include:

2026

Slides and references from lecture, Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Healthcare Practice, Research, and Education, Oregon Health Information Management Association Fall Meeting (virtual), November 5, 2026
Slides and references from annual lecture, Information is Different Now That You're a Doctor, given to first-year medical students at OHSU, Portland, OR, October 9, 2026
Slides and references from Grand Rounds talk, AI in Education and Education in AI: Implications for Medicine and Medical Education, Northwell Health Clinical Informatics Fellowship Grand Rounds, Manhasset, NY, September 18, 2026
Slides and references from lecture, Introduction to Biomedical & Health Informatics, given in Human Microbiome Discovery Course at OHSU, Portland, OR, September 14, 2026
Lecture, Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Healthcare Practice, Research, and Education, given to students in OHSU Physician Assistant Program, Portland, OR, July 16, 2026
Slides and references from talk, Applying Information Retrieval to the Electronic Health Record for Cohort Discovery, given to interns in OHSU Summer Internship in Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, Portland, OR, July 16, 2026
Slides and references from panel talk, AI and Biomedical Informatics Education – Competencies and Challenges, at Illinois Eye-TEACH (Technology, Education, Artificial Intelligence, and Clinical Informatics in Healthcare), Chicago, IL, June 4, 2026
Talk, AI in Education and Education in AI, Department of Computational Biomedicine, Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, CA, March 2, 2026

2025

Annual lecture, Information is Different Now That You're a Doctor, given to first-year medical students at OHSU, Portland, OR, September 5, 2025
Slides and references from panel presentations at MEDINFO 2025, Taipei, Taiwan
- Accomplishments and Limitations of LLMs in Education in panel, Large Language Models in Clinical and Informatics Education: Accomplishments and Challenges, August 10, 2025
- The Critical Need for Education in Voice AI, its Potential in Healthcare, and the Ethical Challenges Associated with Using Patient Voice Data in panel, Advancing Biomedical Research through Voice AI: Insights from an Inaugural Multi-Site Training Program, August 11, 2025
- Competencies and Curricula in AI for Clinicians and Informaticians in panel, Strategies for AI Literacy and Safety among Health Professionals, August 11, 2025
Talk, Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Healthcare Practice, Research, and Education, American Medical Informatics Association Staff Retreat (virtual), July 23, 2025
Talk, Applying Information Retrieval to the Electronic Health Record for Cohort Discovery, Summer Internship Faculty Presentation, OHSU, Portland, OR, July 17, 2025
Slides and references from talk, Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Medicine and Medical Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal WASHA Takwimu Seminar (virtual), Johannesburg, South Africa, March 19, 2025
Talk, Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Healthcare Practice, Research, and Education, University of Cape Town School of IT, Cape Town, South Africa, March 6, 2025
Slides and references from panel talk, Tech-Empowered Health Workers: Skills for the Future Competencies and Curricula Across the Spectrum of Learners in Health/Clinical Informatics, Prince Mahidol Award Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, January 31, 2025
Talk, Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Medicine and Medical Education, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine MedEd eForum Webinar (virtual), January 21, 2025