Speaker Profile
M.D., Founder & CEO, Abridge
Biography
Shiv Rao, MD, is the Founder and CEO of Abridge. Shiv is a practicing cardiologist at UPMC. He previously led the provider-facing investment portfolio for UPMC where he invested in startups, and also helped fund a Machine Learning in Health program at Carnegie Mellon University.
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.
