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The Education Innovation Team of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at UGent and Health Intelligence Network Gent (HINT.GENT) brought together experts from various medical disciplines for a roundtable discussion on the learning needs related to AI in healthcare.

The book Geneeskunde in tijden van AI by Prof. Wim Van Biesen and Prof. Sigrid Sterckx explores how AI is transforming healthcare, from diagnostics to personalized treatments. It provides a balanced view of the benefits and risks of AI while addressing ethical, legal, and societal challenges, emphasizing responsible use.

The research paper, Debiasing Synthetic Data Generated by Deep Generative Models, conducted as part of the SYNDARA project, has been accepted to NeurIPS 2024! This collaborative work by dr. Alexander Decruyenaere, dr. Heidelinde Dehaene, both HINT.GENT members, and prof. Stijn Vansteelandt also earned the Best Poster Award at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society of Belgium.

On November 19, 2024, Metamedica and the Ghent Health Academy for Lifelong Learning (GHALL) organized a debate on the impact of AI on the patient-physician relationship. Moderated by Prof. Heidi Mertes (bioethicist) and Prof. Tom Goffin (health law expert), experts such as general practitioner Dr. Peter Pype and ethicist Prof. Seppe Segers, along with the audience, explored ethical and legal issues surrounding AI in healthcare.