Call for participation: 22nd ICCAI, Sept. 4 - 6. 2024 in Bethesda, Maryland: "Maximizing Clinical Impact of Algorithmic Innovation (AI) in Critical Illness: Artificial Intelligence from Academia & Industry to Government" - Abstract Deadline extended to July 15th
Sven Zenker
Dear all,
it is my pleasure to announce the 22nd Conference on Complex Acute Illness (ICCAI), September 4th - 6th, 2024. Details can be found here: https://www.iccai.org .
After last year's very successful meeting in Augsburg, Germany, we are happy to follow our tradition to alternate meetings sites between US and European locations annually, with this year's meeting at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences/Henry Jackson Foundation in Bethesda, Maryland.
Following this year's theme
"Maximizing Clinical Impact of Algorithmic Innovation (AI) in Critical Illness: Artificial Intelligence from Academia & Industry to Government",
we feature keynotes by Suchi Saria (Bayesian Health), Timothy
Buchman (Emory University), and Barbara Evans (University of
Florida), each focusing on different key aspects of AI/ML
development and implementation in healthcare generally and
critical care medicine in particular.
The six scientific sessions feature a panel of experts from world-leading academic institutions including Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinai, Duke, Emory, MIT, and prominent commercial enterprises, as well as the FDA. The current version of the scientific program can be found here: XXX
This is the 22nd instance of the annual meeting of our small, extremely interdisciplinary Society for Complex Acute Illness (SCAI, https://scai-med.org/), which brings together critical/intensive care clinicians, modelers (both data-driven/ML, and mechanistic, with an increasing focus on hybrid approaches), and quantitative scientists both with biological and engineering/computer science/mathematical backgrounds. Over the last few years, we have broadened our scope to also include the regulatory aspects central for safe and compliant implementation of ML/AI based decision support in medicine.
We welcome abstract submissions with relevance to the interface/intersection of clinical care, modeling, and quantitative understanding of critical illness, from the entire spectrum from basic via translational to implementation science, and from foundational mathematical methods via simulation and model calibration to experimental/prospective validation.
The abstract submission deadline has just been extended to July 15th. Abstracts accepted after peer review will be assigned to be a poster or oral presentation and they will be published in the Journal of Critical Care.
We also welcome participation by experts from any of the "tangent" fields without specific experience in this particular intersection set of disciplines interested in developing collaborations and brainstorming innovative approaches to the critical care medical application domain. Critical care, thanks to its high quantitative data and intervention density and the immediate therapeutic and outcome relevance of pathophysiological dynamics, along with the challenges faced in improving outcomes using traditional approaches, offers unique opportunities for paradigm-changing interdisciplinary innovation.
Sincerely,
Sven Zenker
President, Society for Complex Acute Illness
On behalf of the ICCAI 2024 Program Committee and the SCAI Board of Directors