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Advancing Clinical Practice: Leveraging Real-World Evidence, Clinical Expertise, and AI for Patient-Focused Care
April 23, 2026
A full-day, in-person and virtual event
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Event Timeline
Turner Auditorium
8-8:50 a.m. • Breakfast + Registration + Poster Review
8:50-9 a.m. • Opening Remarks
Speaker: Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian, MD, PhD
9-9:50 a.m. • The Power of Real-World Evidence: Bridging Research and Patient Stories
Moderator: Lori Vanscoy, MD
Panelists: Christian Merlo, MD, MPH, Neeraj Sharma, DVM, PhD, Peter Mogayzel, MD, PhD, MBA
9:50-10:40 a.m. • Keynote Address: Small Patients, Big Changes: Harnessing the Pediatric Setting to Transform the Clinical and Translational Platform Ecosystem on Behalf of Personalized Approaches to Care
Speaker: Adam C. Resnick, PhD
10:40-11 a.m. • Coffee Break
11 a.m.-12 p.m. • The Research and Innovation Ecosystem at Johns Hopkins: Leveraging Institutional Collaboration to Improve Clinical Outcomes
Introduction: Landon S. King, MD
Moderator: Alexis Battle, PhD
Panelists: Paul Nagy, PhD, Khyzer Aziz, MD, Jack Iwashyna, MD, PhD, Nadia Hansel, MD, MPH
12-12:30 p.m. • Lunch
12:30-1:15 p.m. • Resource Fair / Breakout Rooms / Posters
1:30-2:20 p.m. • Precision Medicine: Implementation and Evaluation of AI Tools
Moderator: Deanna Hanisch, MS
Panelists: Sarah Conway, MD, Michael Oberst, PhD, Peter Najjar, MD, MBA, Lisa Mullen, MD
2:20-2:30 p.m. • Closing Remarks
Speaker: Ellen Mowry, MD
2:30-4 p.m. • Networking and Reception
Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Symposium
Alexis Battle
Director of Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Johns Hopkins University
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Sarah Conway
Senior Vice President of Johns Hopkins Physicians and Physician Group Practice
Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Health System
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Nadia N. Hansel
William Osler Professor of Medicine, Director of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Director of Medicine for Johns Hopkins Medicine
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Theodore "Jack" Iwashyna
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management
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Christian Merlo
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Peter Mogayzel Jr.
Menowitz/Rosenstein Professor of Pediatric Respiratory Sciences
Director, Cystic Fibrosis Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Ellen Mowry
Director of Division of Neuroimmunology and Neurological Infections
Richard T. and Frances W. Johnson Professor of Neurology
Medical Director of inHealth Precision Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Lisa Mullen
Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Paul Nagy
Head of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Section
Co-chair Responsible AI & Information Sciences & Education in Medicine (RAISE) Center, School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
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Peter Najjar
Vice President of Clinical Innovation at Johns Hopkins Health System
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Michael Oberst
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Johns Hopkins University
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Adam C. Resnick
Director, Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Neeraj Sharma
Assistant Professor of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Lori Vanscoy
Associate Director, inHealth
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian
Professor of Oncology, Pathology, and Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Director of inHealth Precision Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Associate Cancer Center Director for Precision Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
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