Speaker Profile
Ph.D., PHARMD, CTO & NIH Data Scholar 2022-23, UCSF
Biography
Sharat Israni previously was Executive Director, Data Science, at Stanford Medicine. A long serving Technology executive, Sharats teams pioneered the use of Big Data. He served as VP of Data at Yahoo (19992008) and Intuit (201013), which pioneered Big Data Science to reinvent their products. He led Digital Media systems for broadcast interactive TV at Silicon Graphics; and Data teams at IBM and HP. Sharat has been PI for NSF, NIH and RCUK workshops on Data Science topics in Biomedicine, and is a peer reviewer of some scientific journals.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2026 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Sharat Israni, UCSF
PMWC Award Ceremony
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Joe Petro, Microsoft (Dragon)
• Curtis P Langlotz, Stanford
Keynote
• Curtis P Langlotz, Stanford
From Foundation Models to Digital Twins: AI Reshaping Clinical Imaging
• Chair: Alexander Weir, Canon
• Regina Barzilay, MIT
• Joe Petro, Microsoft
• Curtis P Langlotz, Stanford
Fireside Chat
• Chair: Eric Horvitz, CSO, 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
AI and Omics Foundation Models Powering Translational Research
• Chair: Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure
Radiomics & Radiogenomics: Harnessing Precision Imaging for Oncology
• Chair: Chris Hare, Canon Medical
• Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Quibim
• Kevin Blyth, University of Glasgow
