MLHC 2026
Johns Hopkins Medical Campus
Baltimore, Maryland
2026 Invited Speakers
2026 Agenda
Pre-Conference Workshop (Separate Registration)
Wednesday, August 12: Pre-Conference Workshop
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM: Registration
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Keynote Presentation by American Medical Association Speakers
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Break
10:15 AM – 11:00 AM: How to Read an AI Paper
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Break
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM: How to Review an AI Paper
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: LLMs for Healthcare Use Cases
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM: Break
2:45 PM – 4:30 PM: NVIDIA Medical Imaging Applications
Main Conference
Thursday, August 13: Main Conference Day 1
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM: Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM: Opening Remarks
9:15 AM – 9:45 AM: Invited Talk by Susan Murphy (Harvard University)
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM: Invited Talk by Mike Shakermann (Google Research)
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM: Moderated Discussion
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Poster Session A
12:00 PM – 12:45 PM: Fireside Chat
12:45 PM – 2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM: Invited Talk by Ilya Shpitser (Johns Hopkins University)
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM: Student Presentations (Research)
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM: Poster Session B
4:45 PM – 5:45 PM: Networking Reception
Friday, August 14: Main Conference Day 2
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM: Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM: Test of time award presentation.
Edward Choi, accepting Test of Time award for "Doctor AI: Predicting Clinical Events via Recurrent Neural Networks"
9:15 AM – 9:45 AM: Student Presentations (Clinical)
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM: Invited Talk by Anna Goldenberg (University of Toronto / SickKids)
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM: Invited Talk by Hoifung Poon (Microsoft Research)
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM: Moderated Discussion
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM: Breakout Session
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM: Poster Session C
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM: Invited Talk by Emma Pierson (UC Berkeley)
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM: Invited Talk by Finale Velez-Doshi
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM: Panel Discussion
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM: Feedback Session