NCCIH Lecture to Explore Health Restoration in Diabetes

Dr. Aaron Lee will give a virtual lecture on Monday, July 29.

A promising area of medical research is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to analyze large sets of data in order to gain better understanding of the development of disease (pathogenesis) and the restoration of health (salutogenesis). Dr. Aaron Lee will give a virtual lecture on Monday, July 29 from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. ET as part of the Integrative Medicine Research Lecture Series at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). He will speak on “Harnessing AI to Explore Health Restoration in Diabetes.”

Recognized as a leader in the field of AI and ophthalmology, Lee is an associate professor, the Hunter endowed professor and a vitreoretinal surgeon at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is co-principal investigator on the AI-READI project, funded through the NIH Common Fund’s Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) program.

AI-READI is generating high-quality, multimodal and ethically sourced data that will be ready for AI/ML methods to study salutogenesis in the context of type 2 diabetes. To learn more about AI-READI, visit https://aireadi.org/.

In addition to AI-READI, Lee will also discuss researching the health of the whole person, not just separate organs or body systems, and AI/ML advances from ophthalmology. He holds M.D. and M.S.C.I. degrees from Washington University in St. Louis.

View the lecture live at https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=51118.

Find out more at https://go.nih.gov/3AdgrNb. Real-time captioning will be provided.

Individuals who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this event should contact the NCCIH Clearinghouse at info@nccih.nih.gov or 1-888-644-6226 as early as possible.