Speaker Profile
Biography
Kevin Blyth is Professor of Respiratory Medicine in Glasgow.Following completion of Internal and Respiratory Medicine training and the award of an MD in Magnetic Resonance Imaging he was appointed as a Consultant in 2009.He splits his time between the CRUK Beatson InstituteUniversity of Glasgow and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, where he leads the Glasgow Pleural Disease Unit.He founded and is Director of the Macmillan Scottish Mesothelioma Network, which coordinates clinical care and access to clinical trials for Mesothelioma patients in Scotland.He is an NHS Scotland Research (NRS) Senior Research Fellow and leads a translational research program focused on pleural disease and thoracic malignancy, and has a particular interest in Mesothelioma.He is Principal Investigator of the CRUK PREDICT-Meso International Accelerator Network.
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




