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3rd Annual Health Research and Education Summit

The 3rd Annual Health Research and Education Summit will be held on Friday, April 3rd.

To strengthen collaboration among Wichita State University (WSU), the University of Kansas (KU), WSU Tech, and health industry partners across Wichita and South Central Kansas, the WSU President’s Advisory Council (PIAC) organizes an annual one-day Health Summit each spring, co-sponsored by HealthHum. 

This year the event will be separated into two parts. The morning session will focus on research and potential opportunities for research collaboration. We welcome participation from community and industry partners! The research scope will include a broad intersection of clinical work, the arts, humanities, applied studies and all the health-related work we do. We will have short flash presentations on current research for our selected themes, followed by breakout discussions to allow members of the community to discuss ongoing and future research projects. The afternoon roundtable/brainstorming session to focus on educational collaboration opportunities like shared courses, guest lectures, course modules, or other ways to make our curricula richer or more efficient. 

Please RSVP using the link above to let us know you plan to attend, and to volunteer to present if you'd like to do so.  This event is free, thanks to the generosity of the WSU Office of the President.  

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Keystone Speaker: Dr. Dursun Delen

Dr. Dursun Delen holds the William S. Spears Endowed Chair in Business Administration, the Patterson Family Endowed Chair in Business Analytics, and serves as Director of Research for the Center for Health Systems Innovation. He is a Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University.

Before joining OSU, he spent five years as a research scientist at a private research and consulting firm, leading advanced analytics projects funded by federal agencies including the DoD and NASA. He has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and 13 books in business intelligence, business analytics, and data science. Dr. Delen is a frequent consultant to industry and an invited keynote speaker at national and international conferences. He also regularly chairs tracks and minitracks at leading business analytics and information systems conferences. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Analytics and Journal of AI in Business (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence), and serves as senior editor, associate editor, or editorial board member for several prominent journals. His honors include Fulbright Scholar, Eminent Faculty, Regents Distinguished Teacher and Researcher, President’s Outstanding Researcher, and Big Data Mentor awards.

 Presentation Title: Transforming Healthcare with AI and Data Science

 Abstract: The convergence of analytics, data science, and artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare delivery, clinical decision-making, and population health management. At the same time, funding agencies are increasingly investing in research that applies these advanced methods to high-impact healthcare challenges, especially those affecting rural and underserved populations. In this presentation, Dr. Dursun Delen shares insights from more than 30 years of experience as a researcher, consultant, professor, and solution provider working at the forefront of healthcare analytics. He traces the field’s evolution from early data-driven methods to the latest AI-powered approaches and demonstrates how these tools can be deployed to improve care quality, enhance access, and reduce disparities across vulnerable populations.