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Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance Program’s Nicoleta Economou and Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy’s Christina Silcox and Valerie J. Parker have recently collaborated on an important white paper, examining how health systems are addressing AI governance.

Congratulations to Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance Program's Nicoleta Economou, PhD, and colleagues from the Mayo Clinic for their award-winning poster presentation at AMIA 2024!

Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance Program’s Nicoleta Economou, PhD, and the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy’s Christina Silcox, PhD, and Valerie J. Parker, MSc-GH, have collaborated on an important white paper, titled ‘AI Governance in Health Systems: Aligning Innovation, Accountability, and Trust.’

Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance Program's Nicoleta Economou, PhD, recently presented a talk titled 'Advancing Trustworthy AI in Healthcare with Governance: Duke’s Commitment to high-quality and ethical patient care' as part of a panel for Alliance for Health Policy for their Signature Webinar Series 2024.

Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance Program’s Nicoleta Economou, PhD, recently presented a session titled “Embolden the Boldest Thinkers” at the 2024 Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy’s Annual Retreat alongside Christina Silcox, PhD.

Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance Program’s Nicoleta Economou, PhD, and Sophia Bessias, MPH, MSA, recently presented the ABCDS Oversight Framework at the Duke Office of Clinical Research (

Join Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance Program Director, Nicoleta Economou, PhD, and Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) colleagues Shauna M. Overgaard, Ph.D., Brian Anderson, MD, and Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD, for the UCSF Coordinating Center for Diagnostic Excellence (CoDEx) webinar: “Innovations at the Intersection of AI and Diagnosis.”

STAT News’ Casey Ross talks with Duke Health Chief Data Scientist Michael Pencina about supporting transparency in health AI through the development of a national registry for these rapidly expanding technologies.

A viewpoint in JAMA by Duke’s Michael Pencina, PhD, Jonathan McCall, MS, and Nicoleta Economou, PhD, discusses the need for a federated registration system for AI technologies in healthcare.

Fierce Healthcare recently highlighted an important JAMA Health Forum paper by Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance Program's Nicoleta Economou, PhD, and University of Pennsylvania’s Lee Fleisher, MD, where the authors advocate for the use of current governance frameworks to manage AI in healthcare effectively.