Digital Twins have advanced various fields in engineering for decades and are now entering clinical care, posing several critical challenges. This multi-disciplinary, day-long workshop brings together leading experts – data scientists, clinicians, ethicists, legal scholars and others – to explore complex and growing cutting edge clinical, ethical and legal questions regarding how such digital entities should be regulated.

Join Hastings Center senior research scholar Nancy Berlinger for an afternoon session of “Digital Twins in Health Care: Clinical, Ethical and Legal Perspectives,” hosted by Columbia University.

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM: Other Stakeholder Perspectives (2 hours)

• Moderator: Robert Klitzman, Professor of Psychiatry (in Sociomedical Sciences), Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Program Director, Bioethics Program, School of Professional Studies, Columbia University (in-person)
• Orlando Lopez, Director of the NIDCR Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial (DOC) Biomaterials, Devices, and Clinical Technologies Program, Division of Extramural Research (virtual)
• Matthias Braun, Director of the Department of Social Ethics, University of Bonn (virtual)
• Nancy Berlinger, Senior Research Scholar, The Hastings Center for Bioethics (in-person)
• Glenn Cohen, James A. Atwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law; Deputy Dean of Harvard Law School; Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics at Harvard (in-person)
• Jodyn Platt, Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Medical School Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan Medical School (in-person)
• Sean Whiteley, Founder, Axomem Private Limited (virtual)

This event is part of the Frontiers in Data Science and AI initiative at the Data Science Institute, Columbia University, and is co-sponsored by the Columbia University Masters of Bioethics Program and the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub.