2026 HPM Healthcare Conference Agenda
AI with a Soul: Guardrails, Access, and the Future of Healthcare
Friday, April 17, 2026
9:00am-2:00pm
The Forum at Columbia University
8:15-9:15am – Check-In and Coffee
Check-in in West Atrium
Coffee provided by FOOD TRENDS
9:15-9:30am – Welcome
Professor Larry Brown
Interim Chair
Health Policy & Management
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
9:30-10:30am – Morning Keynote
Renée Cummings
Co-chair of the Global Academic Network
Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP)
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution
Assistant Professor of Practice in Data Science
School of Data Science
University of Virginia
10:30-10:45am - Break
10:45-11:45am – Morning Panel
Deepesh Chandra
Senior Vice President &
Chief Digital & Information Officer
Montefiore Einstein
Divya Pathak
Senior Vice President &
Chief AI Officer
Regeneron
Dr. Remle Newton-Dame
Assistant Vice President of
Healthcare Analytics
Office of Population Health
New York City Health + Hospitals
Prof. Thalia Porteny (Moderator)
Assistant Professor
Health Policy & Management
Columbia Mailman School of Public Health
11:45am-2:00pm – Lunch Reception & Student Poster Showcase
Lunch in the West Atrium catered by FOOD TRENDS
Student Poster Showcase:
Global Mental Health: A Country-Level Policy Analysis of Peru
Rafaella Osores Urday, MPH
Dose–Response Effects of Ecuador’s Cash Transfer Program “Bono de Desarrollo Humano” on Maternal and Child Health
Pablo Rodriguez, MPH
Expanding Housing Navigation in Health Systems: Lessons for NewYork-Presbyterian
Ashley Chen, MPH
Analyzing Role of Demographic Modifiers in Diagnostic Reasoning of Medical Students
Annika Liu, MPH
Increasing HIV and Hepatitis C Testing in the ED through the ENGAGE Public Health Education Initiative
Richard Wang, MPH
Isabel Robbins, MPH
Sydney Lloyd, MPH
Quasi-Publicness and the Governance of Communities
Colette Cambey, MPH
Meghana Sinnappan, MPH
Columbia Healthcare Ventures
CHV Students