The 2024 GW Business & Policy Forum - Panel 2: The Future with AI in Healthcare

As we look forward to the transformative possibilities of AI and generative AI for productivity and innovation in the healthcare industry, policy and regulation are going to be critical to help ensure that the technologies are used in an effective, safe and ethical manner. Policymakers are already calling for more robust regulations, guidelines and policies that focus on responsible AI practices—encouraging standards for information privacy and transparency, and the promotion of unbiased, culturally-sensitive, and ethical handling of data. What will be the consequences for patients if clinicians become increasingly more reliant on AI in diagnostic and therapeutic decision making? How will patient outcomes be at risk if the regulatory landscape is not in lockstep with the pace of AI innovation? What will the future look like as AI technologies are increasingly applied to health care administration, clinical research, and health insurance? These questions and more will be at the center of this session.

This video features a panel discussion from the second annual GW Business & Policy Forum: Imagining the Future with AI on April 2, 2024 at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

About Our Speakers

Mark Newsome - Vice President and Managing Client Partner for Veterans Affairs and Military Health Systems, IBM Consulting
Mark Newsome is Vice President and Managing Client Partner for Veterans Affairs and Military Health System within IBM Consulting. Mark is an IBM Industry Diamond/Industry Academy member, and a Fellow with the IBM Center for The Business of Government. Mark served 25 years as a U.S. Army Medical Service Corps CFO and Army Medical Congressional Budget Liaison with ASA (FM&C), Pentagon. He is an Adjunct Professor for Masters of Healthcare Administration at The George Washington University.

Gary Lynch - Global Practice Leader, Healthcare, Insurance & Life Science Vertical, Verizon Business Group
Gary is the Global Practice Leader and CTO for the Healthcare and Life Science vertical for Verizon Business Group. Gary has 25 years experience leading digital transformation initiatives throughout the health ecosystem. Prior to focusing on health IT, he worked within the provider and payer markets in both the clinical and financial areas. Gary's holds a BS in Dietetics and a Masters in healthcare administration.

Quimby Kaizer - Principal, KPMG
Quimby Kaizer is accomplished in managing large and complex projects with over two decades of management consulting experience. She has 20 years of experience in executive management, large-scale program management, business transformation, and operational improvement. Having worked in both the federal and commercial sectors, she applies her business, operations, analytics, and change-strategy consulting skills to understand complex Federal problems. A certified Lean Sigma Master Black Belt and Executive Coach, Quimby leads the Customer & Operations Service Network for KPMG’s Federal practice.

LaQuandra S. Nesbitt, M.D., M.P.H. - Senior Associate Dean, Executive Director, and Bicentennial Endowed Professor, GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences
LaQuandra S. Nesbitt, MD, MPH is a board-certified family physician with more than a decade of experience leading population health initiatives in governmental public health agencies. Most recently, she served as the director of DC Health and led the District’s COVID-19 pandemic response. In this role, she mobilized organizations and community to implement innovative solutions to promote health and wellness and achieve health equity. She also served as the interim director of the District’s Department of Behavioral Health. As a highly sought-after expert in population health and wellness, she has held leadership roles within major federal and local health care organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control, among others.

Andrew Omidvar, Ph.D. - Vice President of Government Research & Development, Philips
Dr. Andrew Omidvar is Vice President of Government R&D at Philips Healthcare where he shapes the long-term R&D strategy for Philips Government Enterprise to solve complex problems for major customers. Dr. Omidvar has worked for the U.S. Government, including as a consultant to agencies such as HHS, CMS, NIH, DHS, DoD and the VA. Previously, Dr. Omidvar was senior director of corporate development at Motorola and was also a senior advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

About the 2024 GW Business & Policy Forum

During this second annual GW Business & Policy Forum, leading experts and practitioners and leaders from the private and public sectors will convene to discuss these questions and others that society must address, juxtaposed with the transformational benefits of AI for our economic and social welfare.