Speaker Profile
M.D., Lead, Duke
Biography
Mark is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vega Health and the co-lead of Health AI Partnership. His work focuses on advancing the safe and effective use of AI in community and rural settings. He spent nearly 11 years at Duke leading interdisciplinary teams of data scientists, clinicians, and machine learning experts to build technologies that solve real clinical problems. Together with the DIHI team, he has integrated dozens of data-driven technologies into clinical operations. Mark has published over 60 manuscripts in top technical, clinical, and management venues and while at Duke secured over $12 million in external grant funding from government, philanthropic, and industry sources. He obtained his Bachelor’s of Science in Mathematics from UCLA, where he was awarded the Charles E. Young Humanitarian Award, the top honor for community service, and his MD and Masters of Public Policy at Duke University as a Dean’s Tuition Scholar.
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.
