Talbot Symposium 2023

Please join us for the virtual Talbot Veterinary Informatics Symposium on Friday, August 18, 2023 for lectures and live Q&A from 12:00 - 5:00pm EDT, followed by a virtual happy hour. 

RACE-approved medical CE credits are available: for details visit the event registration page.

AVI is pleased to bring together speakers with a wide range of professional experience each year, including clinical practice, academic research, industry, and diagnostics. This year's lectures have a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning in clinical practice and academia, as well as standard terminology.

Stay tuned for announcements of bonus content after the symposium! 

Register for Talbot    Attend the Virtual Happy Hour


Friday, August 18

12:00 pm - 12:10 pm EDT

Opening Remarks from AVI President

Anne Kimmerlein, DVM, MPVM, DACVPM

12:10 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

Transforming Veterinary Clinical Practice with AI: Evaluating Workflow to Drive Changes in Algorithm Design, Training, and Implementation

Jonathan Lustgarten, MS, PhD, VMD, CSPO

1:10 pm - 2:00 pm EDT

AI at Scale: Precise disease labeling using computable phenotypes

Maggie Canning, DVM and Yu Louisa Zhang, MS

2:10 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

Translation of the Veterinary Extension of SNOMED CT

Julie Green, DVM, MS

3:10 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

Utilizing random forest machine learning models to predict student success and identification of students for targeted interventions to enhance academic competencies

Sarah Hooper, DVM, MS, PhD

4:10 pm - 5:00 pm EDT

Evaluating Large Language Models for Decision Support in Veterinary Medicine

Brian Hur, DVM, PhD (Natural Language Processing and Veterinary Epidemiology)

5:00 pm - 5:10 pm EDT

Closing Remarks from Immediate Past President

Rachael Kreisler, VMD, MSCE, DACVPM (Epi)

5:10 pm - 6:00 pm EDT 

Networking with attendees and AVI members



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