Artificial Intelligence: What Every Pediatric Researcher Needs to Know

Friday, April 28, 2023

3:45 PM – 5:15 PM ET

Location: Convention Center: 144 ABC

CE: Live CME: 1.50

Leader(s)

Anthony Chang, MD, MBA, MPH, MS

Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer
Children’s Health of Orange County
Orange, California, United States

Disclosure(s):

Howard Lei, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Anthony Chang, MBA, MPH, MS: No financial relationships to disclose

Workshop

Description: This workshop provides participants with an understanding of the importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in pediatric clinical research. The workshop begins with a gentle introduction to AI and its applicability. A discussion of recent AI methodologies and their clinical applications will be provided. Next, there will be two sessions hosted by the workshop leads who are experienced in applying AI in pediatric clinical trial research. The first session will discuss the pros and cons of traditional Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) approaches, and also how the use of Real World Data (RWD) in conjunction with AI methodologies can be an efficient and low-cost alternative to RCTs. The next session will discuss the nuts and bolts of using RWD in conjunction with AI methodologies for pediatric clinical research, such as how to identify clinical trial patients within the data and related examples. These examples will be demonstrated using the de-identified, publicly-available MIMIC-IV dataset. The sessions will be followed by further AI demonstrations in relevant clinical applications and an open forum with the workshop leads. The overall goal is to provide attendees with an understanding of the feasibility of employing AI-based practices within their own pediatric clinical context. The workshop leaders also hope to provide networking opportunities amongst participants with mutual interest in pursuing the use of AI in their own clinical practices.

Learning Objectives:

To provide participants with an understanding of the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in pediatric clinical research and why use of AI is important.
To help participants evaluate the appropriateness of using Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs), verse Real World Data (RWD) in conjunction with AI methodologies for pediatric clinical research.
Participants will gain insight on how to adopt AI methodologies within their own clinical environments, through seeing various examples and through open forum discussion with the workshop leads.