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Dr. Bukhari with conference participants at IEEE HealthCom 2025 in Abu Dhabi
Featured keynote IEEE HealthCom 2025 Khalifa University · Abu Dhabi

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6 curated records · Last reviewed August 4, 2026Each record includes a source or verified event link.

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2025
Keynote

Trust as the Currency of AI in Health

IEEE HealthCom Workshop · Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi

A keynote on explainable, equitable, and human-centered AI for health.

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Delivered during the IEEE HealthCom 2025 Workshop on AI-Driven Innovations in e-Health on October 21, 2025.

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2022
Invited seminar

Predicting Health Outcomes Using Machine Learning to Improve Clinical Care

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences · Florida International University

Machine-learning approaches for hospital readmission and mortality prediction using electronic health records.

Event details

The seminar discussed 30-day all-cause hospital readmission and mortality prediction for paralytic ileus and trauma patients.

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2022
Invited conference talk

Socio-Technical Approaches to Reduce the Digital Divide

Data-Driven Science and AI Conference · Florida Atlantic University

A presentation on biomedical content authoring, semantic enrichment, and improving access to online biomedical information.

Event details

Presented on May 11, 2022 to an audience of students, scientists, and industry participants.

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2023
Conference presentations

Explainable Clinical Decision Support at BIOSTEC

BIOSTEC · Lisbon, Portugal

Three papers and a poster on explainability, healthcare NLP, readmission prediction, and trustworthy medical coding.

Event details

Presented work included NLP-enhanced comorbidity risk scoring for hospital readmission prediction, attention-based explainability in healthcare NLP, and knowledge graph-based trustworthy medical code recommendations.

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2022
Conference presentation

Biomedical Semantic Content Editing at FLAIRS-35

35th International FLAIRS Conference · Jensen Beach, Florida

Bukhari Lab presented NSF-supported work on socio-technical biomedical content authoring and semantic enrichment.

Event details

The lab participated in the May 15–18, 2022 conference with two accepted papers on biomedical semantic content editing.

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2024
Industry panel

The Future Is Now: AI, Digitalization, and Healthcare Innovation

St. John’s University Manhattan Campus · In collaboration with HIMSS

A public discussion on how artificial intelligence, digitalization, and technology are reshaping healthcare.

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The December 5, 2024 panel brought together leaders from technology, healthcare, and higher education.

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Workshops and seminar leadership

Creating space for interdisciplinary learning.

Dr. Bukhari moderated the St. John’s Healthcare Informatics Webinar Series, connecting students and faculty with researchers and practitioners across AI, privacy, data integration, NLP, and structural biology.

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Selected moderated sessions

Each session below is documented on the St. John’s Healthcare Informatics program page.

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April 21, 2022Explainable Multimodal Knowledge Infused Edge AI Models

Speaker: Dr. Khalid Malik, Oakland University. The session addressed context-aware, human-in-the-loop, privacy-preserving, and federated deep-learning approaches.

March 21, 2022Enabling Web-Scale Data Integration in Biomedicine Through Linked Open Data Knowledge

Speaker: Dr. Maulik Kamdar, Elsevier Health. The session explored linked open data for pharmacology, cancer research, infectious disease, and biomedical knowledge integration.

February 7, 2022Unstructured Data, Natural Language Processing, and Healthcare

Speaker: Dr. Naveed Afzal, Humana. The session reviewed structured and unstructured health data, NLP stages, and healthcare use cases.

November 22, 2021Seeing Is Believing: How Atomic Detailed Maps of Proteins Help Understand Our Immune Defense

Speaker: Dr. Humayun Sharif, Harvard Medical School. The session examined structural biology, Cryo-EM, and structure-based drug design.

October 28, 2021Privacy-Preserving Protocols in Health Informatics

Speaker: Dr. Saeed Samet, University of Windsor. The session focused on privacy challenges and research methods in health informatics.

September 27, 2021Deep Learning for Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Image Application

Speaker: Dr. Hazrat Ali, Umeå University Hospital. The session introduced deep-learning applications for musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging.

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