Monday, December 8, 2025
5:30pm-7:30pm
Venue
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
The event is free; advance registration is required.
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To commemorate the 38th annual World AIDS DAY 2025 at NYAM, two scholars will debate the contentious legacy of Dr. Peter Duesberg, a retrovirologist at the University of California, Berkeley who challenged the dogma that HIV causes AIDS. Join Dr. William Summers, MD, PhD, professor emeritus Yale University and Tyler Harvey, AIDS activist and Yale MD-PhD student, as they dissect perspectives of this contentious public debate.
Today’s debates over vaccination, COVID-19 origins, protocols, and treatment evoke similar questions about medical trust and knowledge-making.
Agenda
| 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm | Reception |
| 6:00 pm – 6:05 pm | Opening Remarks |
| 6:05 pm – 7:00 pm | Panel Discussion |
| 7:00 pm – 7:25 pm | Question and Answer |
| 7:25 pm – 7:30 pm | Closing Remarks |
Speakers
William Summers, MD, PhD
Professor William C. Summers’ interests range from molecular biology to Chinese culture and history. A well-published researcher in virology and in the history of science and medicine, Professor Summers earned both his M.D. and his Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Wisconsin in 1967. He joined the Yale faculty in 1968. Professor Summers has held fellowships and visiting faculty positions at major research universities in the United States, Sweden, Great Britain, and China; he serves on numerous panels and editorial boards.
He first traveled to the People’s Republic of China in 1980 with the Yale delegation that re-established the medical exchange program with the Hunan Medical College. Professor Summers has done extensive research on Chinese public health and medicine, publishing articles on historic parallels between Chinese and Western medical development, Chinese government medical policy, and the Great Manchurian Plague.
At Yale, students enjoy Professor Summers’ Freshman seminar, “Epidemics in Global Perspective,” which deals with historical issues of policy and epidemic disease. He also teaches a seminar on the history of Chinese science in which he deals with Chinese concepts of the natural world, Asian technological development, and East-West scientific interactions, as well as courses on the history of molecular biology, and the history of physical sciences since Newton.
Tyler D. Harvey
Tyler Harvey is an MD/PhD candidate at Yale University. Tyler is pursuing a PhD in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department at the Yale School of Public Health and within the SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, an academic center dedicated to studying and intervening on the health harms of mass incarceration.
At Yale, Tyler has held leadership roles across health justice initiatives, including serving as a student leader in the US Health Justice elective and as an advisor to the Health Equity Thread. Tyler has served as a research fellow with both the Yale LGBTQ+ Mental Health Initiative and the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at the Yale Law School. Tyler served on Yale’s Presidential Search Student Advisory Council from 2023 to 2024 and was named a 2025 Health Policy Research Scholar by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Their scholarship appears in JAMA Network Open, American Journal of Public Health, and Social Science & Medicine, and has informed policy and practice at organizations such as the NYC Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and the World Health Organization. As a former Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project, Tyler has published widely on health equity in national media outlets including The Hill and Newsweek.
Tyler has been involved in public health community work and research related to HIV for years; first within community organizations in Memphis, TN and Flatbush, Brooklyn to increase HIV testing among LGBTQ+ populations; then through an academic-community research partnership in New Haven, CT to implement a group-based mental health therapy to decrease HIV risk among gay and bisexual men of color; and most recently, as a volunteer with Black and Pink in NYC, a prison abolitionist organization dedicated to LGBTQ+ and HIV+ individuals currently incarcerated. One of their most recent op-eds published in Newsweek argued for the inclusion of incarerated individuals within current HIV elimination efforts.
A first-generation college graduate from the rural South, Tyler holds a BA in Urban Studies from Rhodes College and an MPH from the Yale School of Public Health.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
5:00PM-7:30PM
Venue
The New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
$25 Registration fee; $10 Students
Refreshments will be provided.
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Effective care of acutely ill patients requires assessment and diagnostic skills and attentive monitoring of their clinical status. These skills are not the property of any one clinical discipline. Recent research has reported advances on the use of AI and large language models (LLM) to enhance practitioner effectiveness in these areas. A multidisciplinary program designed to be of interest to all healthcare practitioners, will offer internationally recognized experts who will illuminate the advances and challenges posed by these applications in practice.
The panel presentations will highlight recent advances in the use of AI to enhance the accuracy of clinical diagnosis and to accelerate recognition of emergent clinical deterioration among hospitalized patients. They will illuminate the research supporting these developments. They will also emphasize the challenges inherent in bringing them to bear on real-world practice. Attendees will be provided tips on how to identify and navigate trustworthy AI resources in practice.
The program will be preceded by an expo featuring live exhibits and demonstrations of available and developing AI resources. Refreshments will be available to attendees.
Abstract submissions must follow these guidelines: Include a title, list of authors with affiliations, and a structured abstract (maximum 500 words) detailing purpose, methods, results, and conclusions/implications. Please find more information below:
Agenda
5:00–6:00 PM – Expo & Reception (including poster sessions and hands-on demonstrations of AI products and programs)
6:00–7:30 PM – Speaker Panel
Speakers
Kenrick Cato, PhD, RN, CPHIMS, FAAN
Kenrick Cato, PhD, RN, CPHIMS, FAAN, is a clinical informatician whose research focuses on mining electronic patient data to support decision-making for clinicians, patients, and caregivers. Operationally, he spends his time mining and modeling Nursing data to optimize Nursing value in Healthcare. He is also involved in several national-level informatics organizations, including as a board member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Chair of the Nursing Informatics Working Group(NIWG) of AMIA, as well as a convening member of the AMIA-sponsored 25 x 5 initiative to reduce documentation burden. Dr. Cato received his BSN, MS, and Ph.D. in Clinical informatics at Columbia University. He is co-principal investigator on the Communicating Narrative Concerns Entered by RNs (CONCERN) Early Warning System.
Geoff Norman
Geoff Norman is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University. He received a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from McMaste in 1971, and a M.A. in educational psychology from Michigan State in 1977.
He has a long-standing interest is in cognitive psychology applied to clinical reasoning, learning, and decision-making.. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers and over 30 books and book chapters and has received numerous national and international awards.
Dr. Matthew Sibbald MD MHPE PhD FRCPC
Dr. Matthew Sibbald MD MHPE PhD FRCPC is an interventional cardiologist, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education, and educational scientist at McMaster University. He holds a master’s and PhD from Maastricht University, Netherlands in Health Professions Education. He leads Canada’s largest three-year MD program, with a focus on integrating AI. His scholarship includes research on cognitive load, clinical judgment, and the use of AI in practice and assessment.
Ashley Beecy MD, FACC
Ashley Beecy MD, FACC is currently the Chief AI Officer for Sutter Health in California. Previously she served as Medical Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Operations at New York Presbyterian, where she was responsible for the governance, evaluation and implementation of clinical AI models. She is also a practicing cardiologist. Her research focus is in digital health, including the safe and effective use of AI in healthcare. Dr. Beecy earned her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine residency at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. Prior to a career in medicine, Dr. Beecy spent 10 years working in industry. As an electrical engineer at IBM, she was responsible for the physical design of chip level architectures.