Lois Margaret Nora Endowed Lecture series

Artificial Intelligence: New Assessment Opportunities and Applications

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast becoming a dominant force in medical and health care communities. This session will explore how the power of AI can be used to improve diagnostic accuracy, the assessment of clinical skills and overall patient care. Session faculty will also look at how AI may advance and positively impact communication, clinical reasoning and shared decision-making skills. In addition, the panel will discuss AI’s ability to help analyze and distill large amounts of data often needed in the board certification assessment process.

Speakers

Moderator – Richard E. Hawkins, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer
American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)

  • Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
    Director of Research and Innovation, STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation
    Director and Lead Investigator, Medical AI & Cognitive Engineering (MAICE) Lab

    Dr. Dias is a physician-scientist whose research focuses on the application of cutting-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, wearable sensors, digital biomarkers, and extended reality (XR) to assess and enhance clinicians’ performance and improve patient safety in a variety of fields, including emergency medicine, critical care, surgery, military, and space medicine.

  • His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and Department of Defense. 

    Dr. Dias is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Research and Innovation at the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, where he leads the Medical AI & Cognitive Engineering Lab.

Dr. Garibaldi

  • Director, Center for Bedside Medicine
    Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Co-Founder, Society of Bedside Medicine

    Dr. Garibaldi is the Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the director of the Northwestern Center for Bedside Medicine whose mission is to redesign the modern clinical encounter to meet the needs of patients and healthcare professionals.

  • In 2017, Dr. Garibaldi co-founded and became the first Co-President of the Society of Bedside Medicine, an organization devoted to education, innovation and research on the role of the clinical encounter in 21st century medicine. Dr. Garibaldi was formerly the Associate Program Director for Bedside Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Osler Medical Residency Program. He also directed the Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Center, a federally funded special pathogens treatment program. When the President of the United States became ill with COVID-19 in 2020, Dr. Garibaldi served as a member of his care team.

    Dr. Garibaldi is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the American College of Physicians. He is also a member of the American Osler Society, the Cosmos Club, and the Johns Hopkins Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence.

    Prior to medical school, Dr. Garibaldi studied flamenco guitar with El Entri in Madrid, Spain as part of the John Finley Fellowship at Harvard College. He has also studied classical guitar at the Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore. He regularly performs and has participated in events around the hospital designed to improve the clinical environment for patients, their families and healthcare professionals.

    Dr. Garibaldi is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

  • Associate Professor of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine
    Vice Chair for Innovation, Department of Surgery
    Surgical Director, Duke AI Health
    Director, Surgical Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Laboratory (SAIIL)

    Dr. Meireles serves as the inaugural Vice Chairman of Innovation at Duke University School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery and the Surgical Director of Duke AI Health. He specializes in minimally invasive and endoluminal surgery and leads the Surgical AI and Innovation Laboratory (SAIIL).

  • His collaborative work through SAIIL with prestigious institutions like MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Cologne, and Duke Health is central to pioneering advancements in AI-enhanced surgery, aiming for its integration into surgical practices imminently.

    Dr. Meireles earned his medical degree from São Paulo State University in Brazil, completed surgical training at Michigan State University, and pursued a research fellowship at Johns Hopkins University focusing on NOTES (natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery), robotics, and augmented reality in surgery. He further specialized in Minimally Invasive Surgery at the University of California, San Diego. After dedicating 13 years to Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as a bariatric and foregut surgeon and the Director of SAIIL-MGH, Dr. Meireles joined Duke University in January 2024.

    His research is devoted to leveraging artificial intelligence, including computer vision and foundational models, to improve operational efficiency, enhance surgical outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and democratize surgical knowledge. He has made significant contributions to the development and application of minimally invasive techniques in gastrointestinal surgery.

    Nationally recognized, Dr. Meireles has chaired the SAGES Artificial Intelligence Task Force Committee and led international efforts to establish standards for the sustainability and scalability of surgical AI.

    Dr. Meireles is board certified by the American Board of Surgery.