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Friday, May 16, 2025

Arizona Digital Health Symposium

Join the Arizona community for the inaugural Arizona Digital Health Symposium at the ASU Health Futures Center. This event will bring together academic, clinical, government, industry and community leaders to chart a course for leveraging technology to improve the health of Arizonans.

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Charting a Course for Advancing Digital Health

The Arizona Digital Health Symposium will bring together health leaders to accelerate the creation and adoption of innovative technologies that can improve the health of Arizonans. This event will serve as a catalyst for advancing digital health research, fostering cross-sector collaboration, and creating and translating groundbreaking innovations into practical applications that improve health outcomes for Arizonans. With a focus on chronic disease prevention and management across the lifespan, the symposium will explore opportunities to harness data-driven solutions, AI-driven health care models and emerging digital health technologies.

By engaging with academic researchers, industry leaders, clinicians and policymakers, participants will help shape a strategic roadmap for the future of digital health in Arizona. Discussions will center on addressing critical gaps in research funding, streamlining the translation of research into clinical practice, and identifying key metrics for measuring progress. This symposium is an essential opportunity for digital health professionals to collaborate, share insights and drive innovation that will redefine health care accessibility, efficiency and effectiveness across the state.

Who should attend this event?

The voices of patients, consumers, caregivers, clinicians, non-profits, government agencies, health care administrators, investors, entrepreneurs, academic researchers and others who have an interest in the health of Arizonans are needed to make this event a success. Our resources allow for 150 attendees. Travel support is available for attendees from outside the Phoenix metro area with demonstrated need. Don't miss this opportunity to collaborate and drive meaningful advancements in health.

 

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  Date
Friday, May 16, 2025


  Time
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.


  Location

Health Futures Center

6161 E. Mayo Blvd.

Phoenix, AZ 85054

2025 agenda

Friday, May 16, 2025

8:30 a.m.Learning Studio 

Check-in, breakfast and networking

9 a.m.Conference Center 

Welcome and opening remarks

Speakers

Matthew Buman, professor, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University

9:10 a.m.Conference CenterSusan Blumenthal

Opening keynote

Speaker

Public Health Technology: A New Field for Innovating Public Health in the 21st Century

Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, MD (ret.), senior health advisor to the president, Arizona State University; former deputy assistant secretary for health and assistant surgeon general, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Medicine trains practitioners to treat one person at a time. Public health saves millions of people at a time through prevention but has been underfunded and underinnovated. The powerful tools of the digital age have ushered in a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine Arizona's and America's public health infrastructure and the way services are delivered. This presentation will discuss how building a new field of public health technology will help modernize public health with a 21st century technology toolbox. The key pillars needed, including education, research and entrepreneurship, will be discussed for building an integrated, effective public health system that delivers interventions in novel ways at scale.

9:40 a.m.Conference Center 

Panel: Optimizing Health Outcomes in Arizona through Digital Health

This session will include experts and leaders from across Arizona with the goal of identifying the unique challenges and opportunities where digital health strategies can meet the health needs of Arizona communities.

 

Session moderator
Navin Govind, Aventyn, Inc.

 

Panelists
Heather Sheston, Google Public Sector

Tomás León, Equality Health Foundation

Theresa Cullen, public health director, Pima County, AZ

Mohammad Ali Khan Sahara Programs and Mayo Clinic Arizona

Navin Govind, Aventyn, Inc.

10:25 a.m.Conference Center 

Breakout Session #1 Charge

Tamara Christensen, ideaFARM

10:30 a.m.Foyer 

Break (coffee and tea served)

10:45 a.m.Classrooms 

Interactive breakout sessions

12 p.m.Learning Studio 

Networking lunch

12:45 p.m.Conference CenterElena Portacolone

Midday keynote

Speaker

Ethics by Design: Building Self-reflective Digital Health Systems
Elena Portacolone, PhD, MBA, MPH, professor, Institute for Health and Aging University of California, San Francisco

Elena Portacolone will explore strategies for addressing the ethical challenges emerging from the rapid advancement of digital health. To provide a broad perspective, she will introduce theoretical frameworks that can guide the ethical and effective design of digital health applications, technologies and systems to better serve users and societies at large.

1:30 p.m.Conference Center 

Breakout Session #1 Result Sharing
Breakout Session #2 Charge

Tamara Christensen, ideaFARM

1:45 p.m.Foyer 

Break (coffee and tea served)

2:00 p.m.Classrooms 

Interactive breakout sessions

3 p.m.Foyer 

Break (coffee and tea served)

3:15 p.m.Conference CenterJoseph Finkelstein

Closing Closing keynote

Speakers

The Future of Telemedicine and Digital Health to Catalyze Care Delivery Joseph Finkelstein, MD, PhD, FAMIA, FACMI, professor and vice chair, Clinical Data Science and Telemedicine Informatics, Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah

The presentation will provide an overview of the major factors affecting the future of telemedicine and digital health pertinent to health care delivery in Arizona. Specific use cases of AI-driven solutions enhancing telemedicine and digital health will be discussed.

4 p.m. Conference Center 

Closing remarks

Speakers

Stephanie Marita Carpenter, assistant professor, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University

Fang Yu, professor, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University

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