MIT Jameel Clinic hosts 'AI Cures • MENASA 2023' healthcare conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Climate change, lengthening life expectancies and sedentary lifestyles are impacting hospitals and public health sectors across the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA). The rise of AI in health presents a powerful opportunity to tackle these challenges and enable better patient outcomes.

In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 19 December 2023, the MIT Jameel Clinic, the Ministry of Health, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC) and Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University hosted 'AI Cures • MENASA 2023' to address obstacles and find a way forward for AI in health in the MENASA region.

'AI Cures • MENASA 2023' convened researchers, health industry leaders, government partners and donors to discuss trends and advancements in AI, data and challenges and opportunities in the region, through a series of keynote sessions and panel discussions.

00:00:00 Welcome

00:01:58 Mohamed Alhamali, chairman, National Innovation and Sandbox; chief innovation officer, SEHA Virtual Hospital

00:03:11 Nacer Eddine Mami, regional lead, clinical network, MIT Jameel Clinic

00:05:59 'AI for healthcare' – Dina Katabi, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, and principal investigator, MIT Jameel Clinic

00:38:04 Panel discussion: 'AI adoption in healthcare – challenges and opportunities in the region', with Mohammed Alhamid, director, Centre of Healthcare Intelligence, KFSHRC; Batoul AlBaz, vice-president, health sector, KACST; Abdulaziz Alhomod, chief medical officer, SEHA Virtual Hospital; Shada Alsalamah, assistant professor, King Saud University; and Ignacio Fuentes Ribas, executive director, MIT Jameel Clinic (moderator)

01:14:09 National anthem

01:14:53 Recitation of the Holy Koran

01:15:44 Mona Alsubaie, chief executive officer, SEHA Virtual Hospital

01:18:45 Ignacio Fuentes Ribas, executive director, MIT Jameel Clinic

01:30:49 Hassan Jameel, vice chairman, Community Jameel

01:35:32 Poster competition awards ceremony

01:39:50 'Automatic AI bias detection and rationalisation in healthcare' – Shrooq Alsenan, assistant professor, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, and 2022 fellow, MIT Jameel Clinic

01:57:10 Panel discussion: 'Collaboration and data sharing for AI advancements', with Saad Alhuzami, chief data officer, Ministry of Health; Areej Alwabil, director, AI Centre, Alfaisal University; Shrooq Alsenan, assistant professor, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University; Khaled Aldhaayan, general manager, ecosystem and projects, National Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority; and Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor for the Social Sciences, MIT, and principal investigator, MIT Jameel Clinic (moderator)

02:42:40 'AI-powered patient-centred healthcare' – Mohammed Alhamid, director, Centre of Healthcare Intelligence, KFSHRC

03:23:10 Panel discussion: 'Recent trends and advancements in AI for healthcare', with Mohamed Alhamali, chairman, National Innovation and Sandbox; chief innovation officer, SEHA Virtual Hospital; Ahmed Alsinan, Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority; Sultan Alzahrani, assistant professor, KACST; Yazid Alazwari, head, new technologies assessment, Saudi Food and Drug Authority; and Dina Katabi, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, and principal investigator, MIT Jameel Clinic (moderator)

04:01:09 'Expanding medicine with healthy machine learning' – Marzyeh Ghassemi, Herman L. F. von Helmhotz Career Development Professor, MIT, and principal investigator, MIT Jameel Clinic

04:27:25 Closing remarks – Ignacio Fuentes Ribas, executive director, MIT Jameel Clinic