PI 411 - 9/10/25 - Make your research more significant: Reducing bias in healthcare through AI
UIC Live Training Course
Starts 9/10/2025
Position: Research Personnel, Graduate Students, Pre & Post-Doctoral Trainees, Faculty
Topic: Biomedical Informatics/Data Science
Description:
Make your research more significant: Reducing bias in healthcare through AI
Translational Science Lesson:
How to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve health care services through clinical research and translational medicine.
Speaker:
Niranjan S. Karnik, MD, PhD
J. Usha Raj Professor of Psychiatry & Pediatrics, University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago
Co-Director, UIC Center for Clinical & Translational Science
Project Case Study:
"Moving research into data science and AI: opportunities, risks and approaches to consider"
"Moving Research into Data Science and AI: Opportunities, Risks, and Approaches to Consider," explores how researchers across disciplines can effectively integrate data science and AI into their work. It highlights emerging opportunities for innovation, addresses ethical and practical risks—including bias, privacy, and reproducibility—and presents strategic approaches to ensure responsible and impactful application of these powerful technologies in scientific research.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Niranjan Karnik is an internationally recognized leader in psychiatry and behavioral health innovation. He holds the prestigious J. Usha Raj Professorship of Psychiatry & Pediatrics at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where he serves as Director of the Institute for Juvenile Research, Co-Director of the Institute for Research on Addictions, Co-Director of the Center for Clinical & Translational Science, and Interim Director of the AI.Health4All Center. He also holds an appointment as a WOC Research Scientist at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. Dr. Karnik’s groundbreaking research integrates data science, digital health, and community-based interventions to address psychiatric and substance use disorders among society’s most vulnerable populations.
Contact: Sudeshna De, Lawrie Zhang, ccts-training@uic.edu
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