Speaker Profile
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Solutions and Platform, Microsoft
Biography
Joe Petro leads the development of the Dragon portfolio, DAX Copilot, and Dragon Copilot. He has been central in bringing ambient clinical documentation to scale across health systems, advancing AI-driven solutions that reduce clinician burden and improve patient care. With a career spanning leadership roles in healthcare technology and product innovation, he has guided the integration of Nuance into Microsofts Health Life Sciences strategy, positioning AI as a cornerstone of modern clinical workflows.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair: Sharat Israni, UCSF
PMWC Award Ceremony Honorees
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Joe Petro, Microsoft (Dragon)
• Curtis P Langlotz, Stanford
Scaling AI from Radiology to the Entire Health System
• Joe Petro, Microsoft
From Foundation Models to Clinical Digital Twins: AI’s Next Leap in Medical Imaging
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Joe Petro, Microsoft
• Curtis P Langlotz, Stanford
Core AI Methods for Precision Medicine Foundation
• Chair: Sharat Israni, UCSF
• James Zou, Stanford
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Olivier Gevaert, Stanford
Foundation & Multimodal Models in Precision Medicine
AI-Enhanced Imaging: Radiomics, Radiogenomics & Simulation
• Chair: Chris Hare, Canon Medical
• Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Quibim
• Kevin Blyth, University of Glasgow
Next-Generation AI for Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers
• Chair: Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Quibim
Translational Data Science for Drug Development & Precision Trials
• Chair: Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure
