Artificial Intelligence Seminar Series
Join the Child Health Research Institute's educational series featuring AI research success stories and guidance on the institutional policies and tools for AI use. These virtual meetings are held on the first Monday of the month at noon.
Know of a good speaker? Let us know at chri@unmc.edu.
2026 Speakers
April 6 - Teaching AI to See and Read: Vision–Language Models in Radiology
How‑Chih Lee, PhD
Senior Computational Scientist in the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
May 4 - AI as a research and writing partner
Cassie Mallette, MA
Director, Emerging Technologies
University of Nebraska–Omaha
June 1- When AI Enters the Evidence Chain: Trust Tools and Scholarly Integrity
Emily Glenn, MSLS, AHIP-DDean
McGoogan Health Sciences Library
UNMC
July 6 - AI in Healthcare: Computer Vision, RAG and Agents.
Steven Fernandes, PhDAssistant Professor of Computer Science
Creighton University
August 3 - AI in Healthcare: Generative AI Agent Applications
Chun-Hua Tsai, PhDAssistant Professor
Department of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis (ISQA)
University of Nebraska–Omaha
October 5 - Responsible Use of AI with EHR Data
Ellen Kerns, PhD, MPHScientific Director, Research, Education, Administration, and Development in Health Informatics (READi) Core
Interim Director, Research IT
Director of Research Informatics, Child Health Research InstituteData Scientist, Children's Nebraska
Director, Nebraska Pediatric Clinical Trials Unit
November 2 - When Agreement Is Not Understanding: Epistemological Challenges in AI-Assisted Qualitative Research
Andrew Robertson, MS
Institutional Research Director
UNMC
December 7 - Topic to be Announced
Jieqiong Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurological Sciences
UNMC
Jennifer Blackford, PhD
Professor, Monroe Meyer Institute
UNMC