Presentation
Today’s cancer research and other health research are characterized by increasing access to large datasets. In patient-centered research, we have access to clinical records, molecular data, imaging data, and other unstructured information. We will have even more data in the future. This creates a range of needs that artificial intelligence can likely address in ways different from how we currently identify patterns and relationships.
Applied to healthcare services, there is a need to use all available information for the benefit of the patient and to support clinical decision-making. The healthcare system of the future, with an aging population, will not be able to meet staffing needs in the same way as today, and we must find more efficient and smarter solutions to meet these demands.
Healthcare services also face entirely different needs related to operations and logistics, including how future activity can be modeled, budgeted, and planned so that, for example, staffing levels are appropriate and the patient journey through the system is as effective as possible. Artificial intelligence can likely make a significant contribution to system optimization across the entire specialist healthcare service.
Speaker
Kjetil Taskén (M.D., Ph.D.) was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of Oslo in 2001 and has since 2018 served as Head of the Institute of Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Centre where he is also Group Leader for the Cell Signaling and Immune Regulation Group in the Dept. of Cancer Immunology. He was the Director of the Biotechnology Centre of Oslo, UiO, from 2003 to 2016 and the founding Director of Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway, Nordic EMBL Partnership, UiO, where he served from 2008 to 2018.
Dr. Taskén has been key in building Norway's national cancer precision medicine initiative, is Director of the OUH Centre for Precision Cancer Medicine, and involved in developing precision medicine on a European arena. He now coordinates the Cancer Mission PRIME-ROSE project for DRUP-like clinical trials across Europe and leads the Work Package on treatment in the Joint Action for Precision Cancer Medicine. He has authored >300 publications and is an inventor of >20 patents (h-index >73). He won the King Olav V’s Prize for Cancer Research in 2016, the University of Oslo Innovation Prize in 2023, the Oslo University Hospital Excellent Researcher Award in 2024, and was Vice-President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 2023-25. Current research is in tumor immune evasion mechanisms and functional precision medicine for different solid and blood cancers.
Program
12:00?– Doors open and lunch is served
12:15?– "The Need for Artificial Intelligence in Future Health Research and in Healthcare Services" by Kjetil Tasken (Professor II,?Institute for Cancer Research)
13:15 – Mingling (and goodbye)
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