Applied Ethics AI Subcore Discussion Forum — April 10, 2025, 2 p.m. CT
Discussion Topic: "Reproducibility as a Cornerstone of Trust in Clinical AI"
As AI applications continue to transform clinical research and care practices, ensuring their trustworthiness is critical. A key component of trust is reproducibility. Dr. Fu will discuss the ethical and conceptual dimensions of reproducibility in the context of EHR-based AI applications. He will define the role of contextual metadata in the process of AI model development, evaluation, and dissemination, and illustrate his work on standardized frameworks, RITE-FAIR principles, and tools that promote AI reproducibility.
About the Speaker
Dr. Sunyang Fu, PhD MHI, is an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Team Science at the Center for Translational AI Excellence and Applications in Medicine (TEAM-AI), University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The overarching goal of my research is to accelerate, improve and govern the secondary use of EHR data for clinical and translational research toward high throughput, reproducible, and trustworthy discoveries.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Central Time