HBKU’s CSE and IE Impact Xcelerator host healthcare and technology collider roundtable

HBKU’s CSE and IE Impact Xcelerator host healthcare and technology collider roundtable

Doha: Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College of Science and Engineering (CSE) partnered with IE School of Science & Technology’s Impact Xcelerator to host the Healthcare and Technology Collider roundtable, which produced a wealth of formidable starting points for research to improve healthcare with AI and new technologies.

Top-tier participation from Dr. Mounir Hamdi, Founding Dean of the College of Science and Engineering, HBKU, and Dr. Ikhlaq Sidhu, Dean, IE School of Science and Technology, and HBKU Board Member, along with many high profile speakers and guests from the healthcare system in Qatar, enriched a forum that mixed experts from different intellectual and professional backgrounds in order to achieve ideas that no single silo would have achieved independently. Dr. Aiman Erbad, Associate Professor and Head of Information and Computing Technology Division, CSE, and Dr. Sidhu welcomed attendees to the event, which was held both online and in-person.

They discussed how cutting-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, sensors, telemedicine, behavioral analytics, metaverse/digital twins, and genomics could form the basis for technological solutions that benefit the global healthcare sector.

The eight-member panel featured leading experts from both the healthcare and biomedical technology sectors, including Dr. Mitchell Stotland, Vice Chair, Department of Surgery, Sidra Medicine; Dr.