Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance Program Director Nicoleta Economou, PhD, will deliver the keynote at the upcoming SAS Health Care Community Connection virtual event on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. The event is free and open to the global health care community.
Title: From Hype to Healthcare: Governance for Safe, Fair and Effective AI
Description: As the capabilities of artificial intelligence accelerate, from clinical decision support to emerging agentic systems that can automate complex tasks, health systems face the critical challenge of how to deploy AI responsibly while ensuring safety, fairness, transparency, and real clinical value.
In this keynote, Duke Health’s Nicoleta Economou, PhD, will share how health systems can move beyond pilots to operational governance. Drawing on Duke Health’s experience building an enterprise oversight framework for algorithm-based clinical decision support, she will discuss practical approaches to evaluating, deploying, and continuously monitoring AI in clinical environments.
Registration: https://www.sas.com/en_us/events/26q1/health-care-community-connection-…