Keynote Presentation:
“The Future of Healthcare: Integrating Human and Artificial Intelligence“
To solve healthcare’s critical challenges, the future depends on a powerful partnership between humans and AI. Artificial intelligence has the potential to enhance precision and efficiency, freeing clinicians to focus on the indispensable human elements of empathy and complex care. At Ascension, we’re working to harness the transformative power of AI to enhance the work of physicians and nurses today and prepare the healthcare workforce of tomorrow, in a collaboration that promises a more precise, effective, and compassionate healthcare system for all.
About the Speaker:
Stacy Garrett-Ray, MD, MPH, MBA, is Senior Vice President and Chief Community Impact Officer for Ascension nationally. In this role, Dr. Garrett-Ray leads strategies and initiatives to collaboratively address community needs, healthcare access, quality and experiences in addition to convening partnerships to invest in innovative program development to advance health equity and create positive multigenerational impact. A board-certified family physician, Dr. Garrett-Ray previously served as Vice President/Medical Director of the University of Maryland Medical System’s Population Health Services Organization and President of their clinically integrated network. She also served as the medical director of the Baltimore City Cancer Program of University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center which provided free screening, treatment and diagnostic services to low-income residents of Baltimore.
In 2010, Dr. Garrett-Ray was appointed Deputy Director of Comprehensive Women’s Health for Veterans Health Administration nationally and later held other leadership positions including serving as Deputy Director of the Office of Strategic Integration, Senior Medical Advisor for Healthcare Transformation, and lead of the VA Integrated Health Operating Portfolio nationally.
She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Richmond; her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine; and her MPH and MBA from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed residency at the University of Maryland where she served as chief resident.
Dr. Garrett-Ray serves on faculty in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and resides in Maryland with her family.