Event Speaker

Pranav Rajpurkar, PhD

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Harvard Medical School

Pranav Rajpurkar, PhD is Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and a leading researcher in clinical artificial intelligence. His work focuses on developing foundation models, multimodal machine learning, and scalable healthcare AI systems that improve diagnostic accuracy, clinical decision support, and equitable patient outcomes.

Sessions

VLMs in Action: Teaching Machines to See and Speak Imaging

Presented by Cody H. Savage, MD, Pranav Rajpurkar, PhD, Raffi Salibian, MD in Radiology Jun 10, 2026 | 1:45 PM.

Vision-language models (VLMs) are emerging as powerful tools that combine visual understanding with natural language capabilities, offering new opportunities for clinical support, workflow efficiency, and research innovation. This session provides an accessible overview of what VLMs are, how they differ from traditional AI approaches, and where they can add value in imaging environments. Presenters will…