Discusses digital health solutions that support health promotion and disease prevention.

Our guest today is Danielle Louder, who serves as the Co-Director of MCD Global Health’s U.S. Programs and the Director of the Northeast Telehealth Resource Center. In these roles, she is responsible for advancing the use of digital health strategies to improve health access and outcomes.

Additional resources:

• National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers: https://telehealthresourcecenter.org/
• National Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center: https://telehealthtechnology.org/
• Northeast Telehealth Resource Center: https://www.netrc.org/
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: https://telehealth.hhs.gov/
• Center for Connected Health Policy: https://www.cchpca.org/
• National Digital Inclusion Alliance: https://www.digitalinclusion.org/
• National Digital Equity Center: https://digitalequitycenter.org/
• DiMe Digital Health Series: https://about.citiprogram.org/series/dime-digital-health-series/
• TelehealthVillage @UVA: https://about.citiprogram.org/series/teleheatlhvillage-uva/
• CITI Program’s course catalog: https://about.citiprogram.org/course-catalog

Discusses voice as a biomarker of diseases, including ethical considerations and how this technology could change the way we diagnose and monitor diseases.

Our guest today is Yael Bensoussan, who is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine and a fellowship-trained laryngologist. She is also the principal investigator of the Bridge2AI-Voice project, a multi-institutional endeavor funded by the National Institutes of Health to fuel voice as a biomarker of diseases.

Additional resources:

• Bridge2AI-Voice: https://b2ai-voice.org/
• Voice AI Symposium: https://b2ai-voice.org/voice-ai-symposium/
• CITI Program’s course catalog: https://about.citiprogram.org/course-catalog

Discusses Active Physical Intelligence, a model designed for real-time data collection and acquisition, which serves as an adaptive foundation.

Our guests today are the co-founders of KavAI: Tara Javidi and Sam Bigdeli.

Tara has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Jerzy (George) Lewak Endowed Chair in the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Tara and UCSD have been selected to join the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, a program of Schmidt Futures, to accelerate the next scientific revolution by applying AI to research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Sam is the CEO at KavAI, which aims to revolutionize various industries, saving time, labor, and financial resources. He is also a founding advisor at XIRA Connect and a partner at Competitive Knowledge Inc., which invests in entrepreneurs with unique technologies and helps transform their visions into reality. Sam previously held the position of Chief Operating Financial Officer at Advanced MP Technology.


Additional resources:

• KavAI: https://www.kavai.com/
• What is Active Physical Intelligence?: https://www.kavai.com/dev/active-physical-intelligence
• CITI Program’s course catalog: https://about.citiprogram.org/course-catalog