Speaker Profile
M.D., CEO, Coalition for Health AI
Biography
Brian Anderson, MD (Harvard) is the chief executive officer and co-founder of the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), a non-profit coalition. CHAI is focused on developing a set of consensus-driven guidelines and best practices for Responsible AI in Health, as well as supporting the ability to independently test and validate AI for safety and effectiveness. Previously, he was the chief digital physician at MITRE, where he led work during the COVID-19 pandemic, working closely with the White House COVID-19 Task Force and Operation Warp Speed. He also led MITRE’s largest R&D effort in oncology, focusing on the development of mCODE. Anderson is an international author and speaker with expertise in digital health. He has also served on national and international health information technology committees in partnership with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Session Abstract – PMWC 2027 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Vincent Liu, Kaiser Permanente
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley (Luminary)
Featured Speakers
• Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley
• John Halamka, Mayo Clinic Platform
• Ashley Beecy, Sutter Health
• Shiv Rao, Abridge
• Munjal Shah, Hippocratic AI
• Vivek Natarajan, Google Health
• Vincent Liu, Kaiser Permanente
• Mark Sendak, Duke Health
• Joshua Denny, NIH
• Chris Lunt, Critical Path Institute
• Ida Sim, UCSF
• Travis Zack, OpenEvidence
• Danton Char, Stanford
• Brian Anderson, CHAI
• Julia Adler-Milstein, UCSF
The Year in Clinical AI
What shipped, what failed, and what should change next.
AI Agents in Clinical Workflows
Ambient documentation, patient-facing agents, and operational agents in real care.
Foundation Models in Healthcare
What makes a clinical foundation model useful, deployable, and trusted.
AI, Human Cohorts, Trials & RWE
Turning clinical data into stronger trials and decision-grade evidence.
AI Safety, Governance & Evaluation
Avoiding harm at scale when algorithms move into production.
AI + Pharmacogenomics
How decision support and drug-response data can make each other more useful.
PMWC Hall of Impact
Previous Speakers Include
Nobel laureates, technology founders, regulators, CEOs and scientific pioneers who have taken the PMWC stage.
