Faculty Education, Enrichment, and Development Conference (FEED)

The 2025 Department of Medicine Faculty Education, Enrichment, and Development (FEED) Conference was a resounding success, bringing together over 70 faculty members virtually. This event explored the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on medicine, encompassing clinical practice, teaching, and research. The conference featured a series of engaging general sessions and breakout discussions, highlighting the latest advancements and challenges in the field.

Thank you to our phenomenal speakers. Nabile Safdar, MD, MPH, FSIIM, gave an update on how far Emory has come in its innovative usage of AI in teaching, clinical care, and research and what is next for each of those areas, while Ilan Schwartz, MD, PhD, spoke about why even with the advances that AI can bring, the human component in any of these interactions can’t be replaced. Pam Vohra-Khullar, MD, FACP, Reema Dbouk, MD, FACP,  Mary Solis, MD, and Nitu Kashyap, MD, FAMIA,  all spoke about AI from clinical and educational perspectives during our breakout sessions. Our research breakouts, presented by Madhusmita Behera, PhD,  Evan Orenstein, MD, Elizabeth Seckel, MD, and Brandi Stephens, PhD, focused on AI from a scholarship perspective, including how it can help in grant preparation. We closed the conference with two talks. The first was from Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH, on how we can maintain integrity in scholarly works while also harnessing the power of AI. Our last talk, from Mary Ann Hall, MPH, and Hannah Nicol, MEd, focused on AI to not only simplify cumbersome processes at work but also how we can utilize various AI apps to assist with our lives outside work – from creating a dinner menu to where the best hiking trails are.

Additional thank you to the conference planning team:

• Shasha Bai, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
• Sheryl Caberto, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
• Alia Kamel, MS, Director, Office of Faculty Development, Department of Medicine
• Dorothy Kitchens, Sr. Program Coordinator, Office of Faculty Development, Department of Medicine
• Jung Mi Park, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine

Some of the glowing comments we received from attendees at the 2025 FEED conference:

“Absolutely fabulous and relevant conference. Fully engaged throughout. Excellent breakouts.”

“The clarity of uses, benefits of AI juxtaposed to the important areas of caution; clear examples and illustrations provided was my favorite part of the conference.”

“My favorite part of FEED was the explanation of what AI is and isn’t, as well as its potential and limitations. The talk from the experts from Stanford University was outstanding.”