UCLA JCCC AI & Cancer Symposium
May 4, 2026
9:00am – 2:00pm
UCLA JCCC AI & Cancer Symposium
Clinical & Operational AI at UCLA Health
Paul Lukac, MD, MBA, MS
Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine
at UCLA; and Chief AI Officer, UCLA Health
Shaping the Future of Health AI at UCLA and Beyond
Katherine P. Andriole, PhD
Associate Dean for Health AI Strategy and Innovation, David Geffen School
of Medicine at UCLA; and Director, UCLA Center for AI and SMART Health
Computational Strategies for Accelerating Diagnostics and Drug Discovery
Neil (Yen-Chih) Lin, PhD
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
and Bioengineering, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
Applied AI in Cancer Care
Gavin Hui, MD
Instructor, Medicine – Hematology/Oncology,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Accessing and Using ‘Big Data’ from Electronic Health Records
and Other Sources
Douglas Bell, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine – General Internal Medicine,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
What Does the ‘Responsible Use’ of AI Mean in Today’s Quickly
Changing Technical Environment?
Alex Bui, PhD
Professor, Radiological Sciences; Director, Medical & Imaging Informatics
Group; and Chair, Informatics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
TBD
Joann G. Elmore, MD, MPH
Professor, Medicine – General Internal Medicine and Health
Sciences Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Transformer Models to Predict the Origins of Individual Molecules
Based on 5m-cytosine Methylation Patterns
Paul Spellman, PhD
Professor, Medicine – Hematology/Oncology, and Human Genetics,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; and Director, Precision Health,
UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Webinar Panel
Eric Cheng, MD, MS
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, UCLA Health Sciences; and
Professor, Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Amy Cummings, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine – Hematology/Oncology, David Geffen School
of Medicine at UCLA; and Director, Lung Cancer Screening and Clinical Trial
Access, UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
David Elashoff, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Medicine – General Internal Medicine, David Geffen
School of Medicine at UCLA; and Director, Medicine Biostatistics Core
Arash Naiem, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine and Bioengineering, David Geffen School of Medicine
at UCLA and UCLA Samueli School of Engineering; Co-Director, UCLA Clinical
and Translational Science Institute, and Associate Dean, Clinical Research,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; and Chief Medical Officer
for Clinical Research, UCLA Health
RSVP – https://forms.gle/3NHKMVipucWdUvDC8
Contact – jccevents@mednet.ucla.edu
Website – https://www.uclahealth.org/cancer/events/ai-cancer-symposium
NRB Auditorium