Pacific Rim Conference on Healthcare Innovation highlights international collaboration

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On Dec. 5–7, the 2024 Pacific Rim Conference on Healthcare Innovation (PRC-HI 2024), jointly hosted by the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (FAH-SYSU) and the Health initiative of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Experts from top academic and medical institutions worldwide gathered to discuss the future of robotic surgery, health data science and innovations in medical artificial intelligence (AI).

Alexandre Bayen, director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, noted that the cooperation between FAH-SYSU and CITRIS demonstrates their institutions’ ability to set new benchmarks in clinical care, technology, training and health data science.

“Through this partnership, we are addressing vital global health challenges, advancing the fields of surgical robotics and artificial intelligence for medicine, and setting the stage for future development,” he said.

Between the conference’s special sessions, attendees celebrated groundbreaking researchers and leaders. Among them was Jingwen Zhang, an associate professor in the Department of Communications at UC Davis, who received the inaugural Lingnan Award for Excellence in Health Informatics for her work in health informatics.

Read more about the PRC-HI 2024 conference in GDToday.

Read more about Zhang’s award from the UC Davis Department of Communication.