AI in Healthcare

By end of this session attendees will:

• Gain insight and knowledge into the ways AI is being used to innovate and create solutions in healthcare and use cases for future state investigational technology
• Acquire basic prompting skills in LLMs and experience role play as a primary care clinician using AI scribe.
• Prompt GENAI music platform to collaborate on a song and reflect on the humanistic aspects of AI and artistic expression – Explore parallels in Patient care and risk of dehumanizing care
• Understand the limitations of LLMs when being used in HC for diagnosis or clinical decisions
• Explore the use of LLMs for health literacy and understand the importance of bias or hallucinations in the outputs.

Keith Thompson

Dr. Thompson is a London Ontario based family physician, graduate of the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University and awarded Fellowship Canadian College Family Practice in 2005. Chief Medical Officer for Nuralogix.

He is Adjunct Faculty Professor with the departments of Family Medicine and Associate Director of Research for the Institute for Earth and Space Exploration at Western University in London Ontario. He also serves at Western as Co-investigator virtual care studies, and has collaborated both at Western University and with WONCA digital health to coauthor published articles and 2 text book chapters on Virtual care.

He is Board Certified Medical Affairs specialist. He is a current working member for now published IEEE standards for cuffless BP devices PAR 1708, Working Group member for Standards Council of Canada ISO 81060 Mirror committee standards for BP measurement devices, and former Digital health WG executive member World Congress of Family Doctors (WONCA). Currently Executive member Ontario Medical Association Section for General and Family Practice Digital health Working group.

Dr. Joel Brown

Dr. Joel Brown, MD, is a family physician practicing in Ontario, Canada, with prior training in the United Kingdom and a global perspective shaped by his Jamaican heritage. He works in a rural setting where he focuses on delivering high-quality, patient-centered care while navigating the realities and constraints of modern healthcare systems.

He serves as Vice President of the Black Physicians’ Association of Ontario (BPAO), where he contributes to leadership development, advocacy, and advancing equity within the medical profession.

Alongside his clinical work, Dr. Brown is a speaker, educator, and creative with a strong interest in the intersection of science, technology, and human experience. His work explores how emerging tools such as artificial intelligence can enhance clinical decision-making, improve access to care, and support more equitable health outcomes, particularly in underserved communities.

Professor Peggy O’Neil

Professor Peggy O’Neil teaches at Western University in the Faculty of Health Sciences in the Brescia School of Food & Nutritional Sciences in the areas of leadership, philosophy, law, and aesthetics. She is an associate member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy of Science where she contributes to the Human-AI relationships team focusing on human-centred technological advancement. Professor O’Neil is a member of the Western Centre for Bioethics for which she is developing a new program using art to explore the ethics of medical and biological research. Her teaching and research contribute to art and humanity in life sciences through the lenses of poetics, aesthetics, and humanistic education.