StEMI X
2026
AGENDA

2026 Sessions

KEYNOTE

Shiv Rao, MD, Founder and CEO of Abridge

AI

The Augmented ED: Leveling Up Your Clinical Practice with Next-Gen AI
Jesse Pines, Sowmya Sanapala, Tim Sweeney

The AI Minefield: Navigating Ethics, Bias, and Safety in Clinical Care
Anne Merrit, Andrew Marshall

See One, Do One, Teach One, Prompt One: Medical Education in the AI Era
Lulu Wang, Rebecca Mitchell, Jesse Pines

Co-Pilot or Replacement? Reclaiming the Physician’s Role in the Age of AI
Vance Vanier, Nicholas Stark, Anne Merritt

Digital Health

Year in Review: Top 10 acute care technology research papers of 2026
Jared Conley, Josh Joseph

Signal vs. Noise: What's Real and What's Not in the Next Generation of Medical Hardware
Damon Kuehl, James William, Mintu Turakhia

Building Safer Waiting Rooms: Using Tech to Solve the "Right Patient, Right Time" Puzzle
Rohit Sangal, Chris McStay, Stephen Gradwohl

Telemedicine in Acute Care: From the ED to the Home
Emily Harden, Elizabeth Goldberg, Linda DeCherrie

Innovation to Action

Design Thinking in the ED: Turning frontline insight into better solutions
Alexei Wagner, Kit Delgado, Scott Campbell

The Innovation Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between Industry and the Front Lines
Uli Chettipally, Lawrence Hofmann, Rebecca Mitchell

Bedside to Boardroom: A Blueprint for Building a High-Impact Acute Care Startup
Kavita Patel, Zaid Altawil, Josef Parvizi

Winning the C-Suite: The Art of securing institutional buy-in for emerging technologies
Melissa Cohen, James Williams, Lawrence Hofmann, Cynthia Horner