SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Jeffrey Rogers, PhD
Global Research Leader-Digital Health
Distinguished Scientist
IBM
About the Presentation: Digital Health promises to democratize quality healthcare and extend its reach beyond major medical centers. Yet, despite its potential, moving past narrow use cases to achieve broad impact has proven elusive. The COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing chronic disease burden, and a global mental health crisis underscore the urgent need for meaningful progress. This talk will explore how recent advances in sensing, computing, and connectivity present an opportunity. It will focus on emerging technologies such as foundation models in artificial intelligence, internet-of-things, and quantum computing and how they can be leveraged to overcome barriers and achieve widespread, transformative, personalized healthcare. Findings from specific use cases in mental health, traumatic brain injury, dementia, and chronic pain will be discussed.
About the Presenter: Dr. Jeff Rogers is the Global Research Leader for Digital Health and a Distinguished Scientist at IBM, where he founded the company’s healthcare initiatives at the intersection of artificial intelligence, the internet-of-things, and microelectronics. He also leads the healthcare focus of the international AI Alliance and the digital health theme in the Cleveland Clinic/IBM Discovery Accelerator. Prior to IBM, Dr. Rogers was a Director of Engineering at Google, where he founded a cardiac care group and served as a DARPA Program Manager, creating the Blast Gauge/TBI monitoring effort in Afghanistan and founding the agency’s Biological Technologies Office (BTO). He has served as a faculty member at the California Institute of Technology and as a scientist at HRL Laboratories. Dr. Rogers earned his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.S. from Emory University. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, the 2021 Landmark Award, IBM’s General Managers Award for technology creation and transition, and the Joint Meritorious Unit Award from the US Department of Defense.