Precision Health - Your Health, Precisely: Genome-Informed, AI-modeled

The 7th annual MSU Precision Health Symposium will be held on Friday, October 31st, 2025 at the University Club (3435 Forest Rd, Lansing, MI 48910). Don't miss out on this informative and engaging event!

Registration deadline: Monday, October 20th at 11:59PM

There will be an award for the best abstract(s). Short talks will be chosen from the abstract submissions.

Abstract submission requirements:

• No more than 500 words & 1 figure
• Must be in pdf format
• Send abstract to cGhwaW5mbyB8IG1zdSAhIGVkdQ==

The abstract submission deadline is Friday, October 10th, 2025 at 11:59PM

Agenda

• 8:00AM – 8:30AM: Registration, Breakfast
• 8:30AM – 8:45AM: Opening Remarks (Anna Moore, PhD) & Surender Rajasekaran, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Research, (Corewell Health)

Keynote Speaker

• 8:45AM – 9:45AM: Enabling Precision Health at Scale for All - Carlos Bustamante, PhD, Vice Dean of Research, Professor (University of Oklahoma)

• 9:45AM – 10:00AM: Break

Session 1: Your “Ome”, your home, your health

• 10:00AM – 10:25AM: Clinical Genetics Practice in the Age of Genomics and Artificial Intelligence - Patient & Physician Perspectives - Jessie Priestley, MD, PhD, Section Chief, Biochemical Genetics (Corewell Health)
• 10:25AM – 10:50AM: Physical Intelligence: The Missing Link Between AI and Health - Jinxing Li, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering (MSU)
• 10:50AM – 11:15AM: The contributions of immune pathways and pre/perinatal environmental exposures to epigenetic gestational age prediction and acceleration - Albert Levin, PhD, Director, Center for Bioinformatics (Henry Ford Health)
• 11:40AM – 12:45PM: Lunch, Poster Session, Networking

Session 2: AI models: what they reveal and what they conceal

• 12:45PM – 1:10PM: AI Assisted Imaging and Opportunities in Precision Medicine - Chad Klochko, MD, Musculoskeletal Radiologist and Vice Chair of Informatics and Translational Research (Henry Ford Health)
• 1:10PM – 1:35PM: Mapping complex medical heterogeneity from pre-disease to chronic outcomes with AI, omics, and care journeys - Jeremy Prokop, PhD, Associate Professor, Department Pharmacology & Toxicology (MSU)
• 1:35PM – 2:00PM: Enhancing LLM Medical Questions Answering in Low-Resource Contexts - Mohammad Ghassemi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering (MSU)
• 2:00PM – 2:25PM: Towards Precise Health Information in the Age of Generalist AI - Adam Alessio, PhD, Professor, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering (MSU)
• 2:25PM – 2:50PM: AI in Biometrics: Person Recognition in Healthcare - Arun Ross, PhD, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering (MSU)
• 2:50PM – 3:00PM: Break, Networking

Session 3: AI, precisely; will it guide human health?

• 3:00PM – 3:25PM: Dynamic Omics and Health State Transitions - George Mias, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (MSU)
• 3:25PM – 3:50PM: Brain Antigens in the Crosshairs: Pediatric TBI Autoantibody Signatures - Daniel Woldring, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science (MSU)
• 3:50PM – 4:15PM: Sailing in Uncharted Waters: A tale of two gene therapies. My experience with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and the current gaps in knowledge - Jena Krueger, MD, Pediatric Neurologist (Corewell Health)
• 4:15PM – 4:40PM: Genetic predictor for health: Designing generalizable polygenic risk scores - Sebastian Zoellner, Professor, Co-Director, AI & Digital Health Initiative (U of M)
• 4:40PM – 4:50PM: Selected Short Talk
• 4:50PM – 5:00PM: Poster Award Winner(s) and Closing Remarks (Anna Moore, PhD)

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