Speaker Profile
M.D., Professor of Respiratory Medicine in Glasgow, U. of Glasgow
Biography
Kevin Blyth is Professor of Respiratory Medicine in the School of Cancer Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He splits his time between the Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre, the CRUK Scotland Institute and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, where he leads the Glasgow Pleural Disease Unit. He founded the Macmillan Scottish Mesothelioma Network, which coordinates care and access to clinical trials for patients across Scotland and is National Clinical Lead for Mesothelioma. He leads the PREDICT-Meso International Accelerator Network, funded by Cancer Research UK (160 investigators from 100 institutions in 17 countries)He is academic lead of the UKRI-funded Living Lab Radiogenomic Project, which is developing AI precision medicine tools suitable for use by industry and academic partners. He is recent ex-Chair of the European Respiratory Society Thoracic Oncology Assembly (11.2), a member of the IASLC Mesothelioma Committee, a Trustee of Mesothelioma UK and an Associate Editor of Thorax.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Sharat Israni, UCSF
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Joe Petro, Microsoft
• Curtis P. Langlotz, Stanford University
Keynote: The Future of AI in Medical Imaging
• Curtis P. Langlotz, Stanford University
From Foundation Models to Digital Twins: AI Reshaping Clinical Imaging
• Chair: Alexander Weir, Canon Medical
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Joe Petro, Microsoft
• Curtis P. Langlotz, Stanford University
Fireside Chat
• Eric Horvitz, Microsoft
• Curtis P. Langlotz, Stanford University
Building Biological Digital Twins: Computational Models Linking Data to Disease Mechanisms
• Martin Stumpe, Danaher
Core AI Methods for Precision Medicine Foundations
• Chair: Sharat Israni, UCSF
• James Zou, Stanford University
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Olivier Gevaert, Stanford University
AI & Omics Foundation Models Powering Translational Research
• Chair: Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure
• Alex Moreau, Champions Oncology
• Jadwiga Bienkowska, Pfizer
Radiomics & Radiogenomics: Precision Imaging for Oncology
• Chair: Chris Hare, Canon Medical
• Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Quibim
• Kevin Blyth, University of Glasgow
• Maria del Mar Alvarez Torres, Columbia University
Clinical Workflow Integration & Decision Support in Imaging
• Chair: Sharat Israni, UCSF
• David S. Liebeskind, UCLA
• Rajesh Shah, UCSF
• Roxana Daneshjou, Stanford University
