UCLA JCCC AI & Cancer Symposium

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