Goals of the Workshop
The 2026 Digital Health Workshop will bring together experts from healthcare, engineering, industry, and government to explore the role of digital health technologies in improving outcomes for chronic diseases and mental health.
This workshop will focus on:
Expanding collaboration between
digital health innovators and healthcare professionals.
Supporting new research initiatives with opportunities for future funding.
Accelerating the transition from research to clinical application.
Digital Health Workshop Co-Chairs
Dino Di Carlo, PhD
- Deputy Director, PATHS-UP
- Professor, Bioengineering
- Microfluidics, Microfabrication, Nanotechnologies
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Liang Gao, PhD
- Professor at UCLA Bioengineering
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Linda Demer, MD, PhD
- Professor, Medicine, Physiology, Bioengineering
- Vice Chair Department of Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine
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Day 1 – Thursday, September 17th:
Track 1: Imaging AI – From Algorithms to Clinical Deployment
Katherine Andriole, PhD
- Associate Dean for Health AI Strategy and Innovation at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
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Aydogan Ozcan, PhD
- Chancellor’s Professor and HHMI Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Deep Learning Optics & Optical Computing, Computational Imaging and Microscopy, Bio-Sensing and Mobile Health
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Will Hsu
- Co-Founder, Partner at Mucker Capital
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Debiao Li, PhD
- Director of Biomedical Imaging Researh Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Track 2: Digital Biomarkers, Wearables & Human-Centered Health
Abeer Alwan, PhD
- Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Yuzhe Yang, PhD
- AI Professor, UCLA
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Jeffrey Hsu, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor-in-Residence at UCLA Health
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Ashutosh Sabharwal, PhD
- Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Data Science for Diabetes and Health
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Track 3: Precision Health, Genomics, Biochemical Markers & Health Data Infrastructure
Gerard Coté, PhD
- Director, PATHS-UP
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Biosensors, Wearables, Chronic & Infectious Diseases
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John Mafi, MD
- Associate Professor of Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine
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Valerie Arboleda, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor, Physician Scientist, Genomics & Epigenetics Research & Rare Disease, Academic Pathologist at UCLA
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Mike McShane, PhD
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Department Head, Biomedical Engineering
- Computational imaging and computational sensing
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Paul Spellman, PhD
- Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics
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Closing Cross-Cutting Panel
Paul Lukac, MD
- Chief AI Officer at UCLA Health
- Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
- Ambulatory Physician Informaticist
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Farzan Sasangohar, PhD
- Associate Professor and Mike & Sugar Barnes Faculty Fellow, Texas A&M University
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Day 2 – Friday, September 18th:
Liang Gao, PhD
- Professor at UCLA Bioengineering
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Alexander Sandhu, MD
- Associate Professor at UCLA
- Cardiologist
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Eleazar Eskin, PhD
- Professor and Chair, Department of Computational Medicine, UCLA
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