Artificial Intelligence and Specialty Societies
The CMSS AI/ML Task Force
The CMSS AI/ML Task Force works to assess the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on research, publications, IT, and corporate engagement, and to provide guidance for incorporating AI/ML into other aspects of specialty society operations.
The task force is co-chaired by Dana Smetherman, MD, MBA, CEO, American College of Radiology, and Steven Waldren, V.P. and Chief Medical Informatics Officer, American Academy of Family Physicians. Other task force members are leading experts in technology, health IT and informatics, law, and policy.
Value:
Since its inception in 2023, the task force has conducted an AI inventory of CMSS member societies; developed safeguards, a risk matrix, and a roadmap for AI exploration; and delivered clinical AI education.
In addition, CMSS is an active partner with Coalition for Health AI, ensuring specialty societies are represented in newly forming workstreams and in the “What is Health AI?” brief released by the Consumer Technology Association stakeholder group.
These initiatives are part of CMSS commitment to collaboratively address critical issues by assessing AI’s existing and future impact on specialty society operations and physician members.
PXI: From Principles to Collaboration to Impact – How Specialty Societies Can Advance Patient-Centered AI
Contact:
Suzanne Pope, CMSS Senior Advisor
Yodit Berhan, CMSS Program Coordinator
Task Force Members
Dana Smetherman, MD, MBA
CEO, American College of RadiologyCo-ChairSteven Waldren, MD, MS
VP and Chief Medical Informatics Officer, American Academy of Family PhysiciansCo-ChairJulia Close, MD, MBA
Executive Vice President and Chief Education Officer, American Society of Clinical OncologyGary Coad, JD
Vice President and General Counsel, American Society of Clinical OncologyShawn Fredrickson
Deputy Chief, Technology, American Academy of NeurologySusan Galandiuk, MD
Editor-In-Chief, Journal Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, American Society of Colon and Rectal SurgeonsShannon Hoekstra
Sr. Director, IS – Digital Architecture, Innovation, and Analytics, College of American PathologistsAlison Kim, PhD
Vice President, Research and Publications, American Gastroenterological AssociationJeremy Lewin, JD
General Counsel, American Society of AnesthesiologistsRaj Manocha, MS
Chief Technology Officer, American Urological AssociationMiguel Paniagua, MD, FACP
Vice President, Medical Education, American College of PhysiciansTravis Redd, MD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, American Academy of OphthalmologyMiquella (Kelly) Rose, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, American Society of HematologyMichael Tilkin, MS
VP Technology and Chief Information Officer, American College of RadiologyJennifer Walsh
Chief Product and Marketing Officer, American College of Obstetricians and GynecologistsMelissa West
Sr. Director, Strategic Relations and Patient Engagement, American Society of NephrologyDaniel Wu, MD
Professor Emergency Medicine, Medical Director of AI and Innovation, American Medical Informatics Association