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 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
