CODEX's AI and Diagnosis Webinar Series - July 2025
Ft. Grace Cordovano, PhD, BCPA, and Philip R.O. Payne, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FAIMBE, FIAHSI
Thursday, July 24, 2025
About the Event
As AI tools proliferate across healthcare, the outstanding question is no longer just about what the technology can do, but what we can and should do with it.
This month, we're delighted to welcome Grace Cordovano, PhD, BCPA, and Philip Payne PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FAIMBE, FIAHSI, for a timely conversation on AI-enabled and systems-based strategies to reduce diagnostic errors. They’ll focus on using advanced computational methods to facilitate shared decision-making and patient-centered care. Drawing on the framework outlined in the National Academy of Medicine’s Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine (linked below), Drs. Cordovano and Payne will explore the foundational concepts underpinning responsible AI development and use in this context.
Join us to dive into the promise and complexity of building shared behavioral expectations that encourage a humanistic approach to AI design, implementation, and evaluation. You'll also hear from our experts as they reflect on how this code-of-conduct model compares to more extreme perspectives—such as accelerationism and altruism—which represent maximalist and minimalist approaches to AI in healthcare.
Context for the Conversation
- National Academy of Medicine. 2025. An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine: Essential Guidance for Aligned Action. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
- Matheny ME, Goldsack JC, Saria S, Shah NH, Gerhart J, Cohen IG, Price WN, Patel B, Payne PR, Embí PJ, Anderson B. Artificial Intelligence In Health And Health Care: Priorities For Action: Article examines priorities for the uses of artificial intelligence in health and health care. Health Affairs. 2025 Feb 1:10-377.
- Payne PR, Johnson KB, Maddox TM, Embi PJ, Mandl KD, McGraw D, Saria S, Adams L. Toward an artificial intelligence code of conduct for health and healthcare: implications for the biomedical informatics community. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2025 Feb;32(2):408-12.
- The Light Collective. AI Rights for Patients. 2024 June.
Featured Speakers
Grace Cordovano, PhD, BCPA
Founder, Enlightening Results
Co-Founder, Unblock Health
Board-Certified Patient Advocate
Dr. Cordovano is nationally recognized as a leading patient voice in the realms of health equity, techquity, and patients’ rights and governance of AI. Upon recognizing significant unmet needs and challenges in patients' experiences throughout their cancer diagnosis, Dr. Grace Cordovano, BCPA, founded Enlightening Results in 2010. With over 25 years of patient advocacy experience, she thoroughly understands the barriers patients face due to data siloes, excessive Patient Administrative Burden (PAB), poorly designed, fragmented workflows, and lack of transparency and trust in digital health. Dr. Cordovano co-founded Unblock Health to empower patients and their care partners with digital tools to request all their electronic health information (EHI) as well as to request corrections to their EHI.
Philip R.O. Payne, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FAIMBE, FIAHSIVice Chancellor for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science and Chief Health AI Officer, WashU Medicine and BJC Health System
With over 300 publications, Dr. Payne leads a dynamic research group that addresses areas such as: 1) AI-driven methods for discovering and analyzing biomolecular and clinical phenotypes, 2) interventional applications of electronic health records and clinical decision support, 3) human factors and workflow optimization in health-care IT, and 4) the development and assessment of data sharing and analytics platforms to support high-value, agile health care systems and research initiatives. He currently serves as President-elect of the AMIA, the leading professional organization in Biomedical and Health Informatics. Beyond academia, Dr. Payne is an active entrepreneur, founding multiple digital health companies and serving in advisory and governance roles with various health and life sciences companies and venture capital firms.
Sumant Ranji, MD (Moderator)
Inaugural Director, UCSF CODEX
Director of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Division of Hospital Medicine at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG)
Sumant is a renowned leader in patient safety, quality improvement, and medical education. He first joined UCSF as a fellow in hospital medicine and clinical research, then went on to become a faculty member in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF Health, where he held multiple leadership positions. As director of CODEX, Sumant leads the center’s strategic planning and the execution of its work to champion diagnostic excellence research and build awareness of and engagement within the field. Learn more about Sumant here.
About the Webinar Series
Dive headfirst into the future of healthcare innovation to unravel the most promising artificial intelligence (AI) advancements and approaches. At each event, CODEX brings together the brightest minds in the field to share exclusive updates and challenges from projects underway with the potential to reshape the landscape of medical diagnosis. Through this monthly webinar series, you'll hear from visionary researchers, on-the-ground providers, and the next generation of diagnostic excellence leaders who will illuminate the path toward real-life improvements for healthcare delivery, health equity, and patient care and outcomes.
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