Speaker Profile
M.D., Co-Director, Stanford
Biography
Danton Char is a pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist, clinical researcher, and empirical bioethics researcher at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and Stanford University. He focuses on improving the lives of infants, children, and adults with complex congenital cardiac disease and supporting the well-being of their caregivers and families. His research also focuses on identifying and addressing ethical concerns arising with implementation of next generation technologies to bedside clinical care for all patients, including genomic testing, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and mechanical circulatory support.
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
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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.
