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Pierre Gourraud FRANCE |
Pierre-Antoine Gourraud is a university professor and practicing physician at the Faculty of Medicine in Nantes (France). He graduated in Biology from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Neurology at the University of California (UCSF, USA), where he became an associate professor in 2018. He is the author of over 220 publications, cited more than 15,000 times (h-index 60), and his research sits at the intersection of immunology, genetics, and medical data processing. He actively collaborates with numerous companies in the healthcare and biotechnology sectors, contributing his expertise.
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Fiorella Guadagni ITALY |
Fiorella Guadagni, M.D. and Ph.D., is Full Professor of Clinical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (San Raffaele Roma Open University) and Scientific Coordinator of the BioBIM (IRCCS San Raffaele Roma, Italy). She has an international long lasting experience in the field of biobanking/biospecimen sciences and biomarker discovery. Her major scientific interest is focused on the use and construction of innovative informatics platforms, Artificial Intelligence for predictive medicine, data management, Big Data and new data analytics approaches. All these studies have led to 261 publications in international peer-reviewed journals with an H index of 47.
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Ora Israel ISRAEL |
Ora Israel is Professor Emerita of Imaging at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. In 2018 she retired from her position as Director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the Rambam Health Care Campus, a post she held for 18 years. Over more than four decades, her main scientific interests have included multimodal imaging, in vivo quantification of radionuclides, and imaging of infection and inflammation. She has been involved in the development of hybrid imaging, SPECT/CT and PET/CT, since their earliest days in the late 1990s, and in recent decades has contributed to the guidelines for their clinical implementation. She is the author of four textbooks on Hybrid Imaging and over 220 scientific articles. A founding member of the Israeli Academy for Research in Medicine, she was elected in 2018 as a Fellow of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI - USA) — the first person from outside North America to receive this distinction — and an Honorary Member of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) in 2020.
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Ioannis Kafetzis GERMANY |
Dr. Ioannis Kafetzis is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Head of AI in the Interventional Experimental Endoscopy (InExEn) working group at University Hospital Würzburg. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research focuses on developing and clinically validating AI systems for gastrointestinal endoscopy, from model training and system development to prospective clinical trials. He has worked on projects ranging from AI-based disease diagnosis to automated reporting and AI-supported endoscopist training.
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Mario Roselli ITALY |
Professor Mario Roselli graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Perugia and specialized in Oncology at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". He obtained a second specialization in Nuclear Medicine at the Federico II University of Naples and completed his training with research fellowships at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, USA. He currently serves as Full Professor of Medical Oncology at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and Director of the Postgraduate School in Medicine and Palliative Care. He is Chief Physician at the Medical Oncology Unit (U.O.S.D.) of the Policlinico Tor Vergata, where he serves as Institutional Referent for the Breast Cancer Oncology Network and Referent for Palliative Care. Professor Roselli has specialized in the treatment of neoplastic disease, medical oncology, chemotherapy, and palliative care. His experience spans the multidisciplinary management of oncology patients, clinical research, immunotherapy, and personalized medicine. He is an expert in breast oncology, gastrointestinal tumors, melanoma, and lung tumors. Professor Roselli has authored over 275 international scientific publications and was awarded the "2020 SITC Team Science Award" by the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer. He is a European Expert for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and an oncology consultant for the General Command of the Guardia di Finanza.
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Jacob Sosna ISRAEL |
Professor Jacob Sosna earned his medical degree with Distinction from the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, in 1989. Since 2004 he has been Research Coordinator in Radiology, having founded and led the Experimental CT Laboratory, and co-directs the Applied Radiology Laboratory. In 2011 he became Head of the Department of Radiology at the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, and in 2016 Director of the Division of Imaging and Nuclear Medicine. He is Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Hebrew University – Hadassah. Professor Sosna has published over 160 peer-reviewed articles and is an active speaker at international conferences on Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging. He currently serves as President of the Israeli Radiological Association. His research focuses on developing clinical applications of state-of-the-art CT technology, in collaboration with other experts in diagnostic and imaging therapy from the USA and Europe.
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Fabio Massimo Zanzotto ITALY |
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto is a professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he leads the Human-centric ART group. He specializes in artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). Since 1998 he has been actively involved in AI research, with a focus on ethical considerations, AI applications in tourism and healthcare, and the fundamental concepts of AI. He currently coordinates, and has previously coordinated, numerous research projects, including the European H2020 project KATY and the national projects Social Tourism e-Platform (STEP), Class-tAIs, and SfidaNow. He also oversees collaborations with companies in the natural language processing field, reflecting his significant impact in both academia and industry. His contributions include work on automatic recognition of textual entailment, syntactic analysis, and the application of distributed and distributional models to language syntax and semantics. With over 150 publications in international and national forums, Zanzotto is a prominent figure in the field. He plays an active role on the committees of major conferences (ACL, NAACL, EACL, EMNLP, CoLing, LREC, IJCAI, ECAI, CLEF) and serves as a reviewer for prestigious international journals. He is a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, and a founding member of the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics. He has also contributed to the creation of two spin-offs: Reveal SRL and DevIt SRL.
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Lucian Boghian ROMANIA |
Resident physician in Epidemiology and PhD candidate at "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, with an interest in the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections, as well as in integrating artificial intelligence-based solutions into epidemiological practice.
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Florin Cardașim ROMANIA |
Florin Cardașim is a technology entrepreneur actively involved in growing the IT community and co-founder of Strongbytes, a software and AI company that helps organizations build secure, scalable digital solutions with real impact. With over 20 years of experience in technology and team leadership, Florin works at the intersection of software, data, artificial intelligence, and innovation. He is also a co-founder of Codecamp România, one of the country's best-known technology conference series, built around genuine idea-sharing and long-term connections. He is likewise a co-founder of Digital Innovation Zone, a European digital innovation hub in Romania's North-East region. At AI4MED, Florin brings a perspective that blends technical expertise with entrepreneurial and business experience, contributing to a dialogue on innovation, digital transformation, and how artificial intelligence is changing organizations, the way we work, and, more broadly, society.
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Alina Căpitanu ROMANIA |
Alina Căpitanu is Vice President of the IMAGO-MOL Cluster, representing the North-East Regional Development Agency, and is passionate about developing the regional healthcare innovation ecosystem. She has 24 years of experience in regional development and project management and actively contributed to the establishment of the IMAGO-MOL Cluster in 2012, as well as to its subsequent development. Connecting the regional healthcare innovation ecosystem to European networks and initiatives is one of her main professional goals. Over the years, the North-East Region has become a member of the Smart Specialisation Platform for Personalised Medicine (S3P4PM), the Vanguard Initiative, CEBR and the global ECHAlliance network, thereby helping accelerate the smart transformation of the healthcare system. Alina is also President of MEDIC NEST – Meta-Cluster in Precision Medicine, an open alliance of European clusters and business support organisations, built on the conviction that inter-cluster, cross-border and cross-sector collaboration can support the growth, global competitiveness and internationalisation of the European precision medicine ecosystem.
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Costin Chirica ROMANIA |
Costin Chirica is a PhD candidate in Medicine, in the field of Radiology, and a research assistant at the "Prof. Ostin C. Mungiu" Advanced Research and Development Center in Experimental Medicine of "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iași. He works in radiology and medical imaging, and his research focuses on neuroimaging and MRI, with an interest in medical image processing and computational analysis. His goal is to integrate clinical interpretation with quantitative image analysis in support of research and clinical practice.
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Daniela Gabriela Ciobanu ROMANIA |
Daniela Gabriela Ciobanu is Professor of Pathology at the Department of Morpho-Functional Sciences I, Faculty of Medicine, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, and Consultant Pathologist and Head of the Pathology Department at the "Sf. Spiridon" Clinical Emergency County Hospital, Iași, one of the largest hospitals in the Moldavian region. She holds a Doctor of Medicine (PhD) in Pathology, with a doctoral thesis on "Cytological and Histological Correlations in Nodular Lesions of the Thyroid Gland" (Diploma E0002781, No. 1226/22.09.2006), and is a Habilitated Doctor, with a habilitation thesis on "The Thyroid between Malignancy and Autoimmunity: The Pathological Way from Diagnosis to Research" (Diploma No. 4326/27.07.2022). She is an active member of several professional and scientific societies, including the Romanian Society of Normal and Pathological Morphology, the Romanian Society of Clinical Cytology, the Romanian Society of Physicians and Naturalists, and the European Society of Pathology. Through academic collaborations with specialists across various medical fields, she has authored and co-authored books, treatises, monographs, training materials, and professional guides. Her principal areas of scientific and professional interest include endocrine, dermatological, hepatic, cervico-vaginal, and breast pathology, as well as histochemistry, morphometry, and immunohistochemical techniques applied to diagnostic and research pathology.
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Iulian Ciocoiu ROMANIA |
Iulian B. Ciocoiu is a professor at the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iași. He is the author of two books, three book chapters published by international publishers, and over 70 scientific papers. His research interests include applications of deep learning models, biometrics, and biomedical signal processing. Prof. Ciocoiu is a Senior Member of IEEE and of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
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Ovidiu Coruga ROMANIA |
Ovidiu Coruga, Head of Marketing at Rayscape and a resident radiologist. I work at the intersection of medicine, technology, and innovation, with a particular interest in how artificial intelligence can become a useful and natural tool in radiology practice. My role combines a clinical perspective with product understanding, technology communication, and bridging the gap between technical teams and healthcare professionals.
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Ioana Crețu ROMANIA |
Ioana Crețu holds a PhD in Education Sciences and is an independent specialist in medical communication and English for Specific Purposes, an accredited trainer for the international OET Medicine/Nursing exam, and an authorised medical translator. She was a faculty member for 18 years at "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iași, and since 2018 has worked independently with healthcare professionals, researchers and academics in areas such as clinical communication, scientific writing and medical education. Her recent work also explores the critical use of Artificial Intelligence in clinical and academic contexts.
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Ionuț Adrian Duțu ROMANIA |
Ionuț Adrian Duțu has worked in medical software for over 12 years and is now Sales Manager at Pixel Data. He brings AI-powered imaging solutions from international partners into hospitals and follows them from the first conversation with physicians through PACS/RIS integration and testing on real cases. Before Pixel Data, he led medical sales at HTSS. At AI4-MED, he speaks about Subtle Medical's entry into Romania: what AI applications for MRI and PET can do, and what needs to happen for them to reach daily use in clinics.
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Camelia Dascalu ROMANIA |
Dr. Camelia Dascălu is a specialist physician in clinical pharmacology, a PhD candidate, and a research assistant at the "Prof. Ostin C. Mungiu" Advanced Research and Development Center in Experimental Medicine, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași. Her professional and scientific activity spans clinical pharmacology, clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, and translational research. Her current research interests focus on precision medicine and translational oncology, with particular attention to the role of cannabinoids and the potential integration of immunological biomarkers, radiomics, and artificial intelligence methods in evaluating therapeutic response. She is involved in multidisciplinary biomedical research projects and scientific communication activities.
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Vlad Ghizdovat ROMANIA |
Medical physicist and radiation protection expert accredited by C.N.C.A.N., with over 15 years of experience in medical fields that use ionizing radiation, particularly radiology and nuclear medicine. Lecturer at UMF “Grigore T. Popa” Iași, Faculty of Medicine. Coordinator of the Strategy Department within the North-East Regional Innovative Cluster for Molecular and Structural Imaging (IMAGO-MOL).
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Dragoș Grama ROMANIA |
Dragoș Grama is Synaptiq's CTO. He studied Computer Science and then AI at the University of Amsterdam and spent three years as an AI researcher in the Radiotherapy department at VUMC Amsterdam before joining Synaptiq. He now runs the technical team and the development of Mediq RT.
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Adrian Iftene ROMANIA |
Adrian Iftene is a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Vice-Rector at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași (UAIC), Romania, where he previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science from 2012 to 2024. His research interests span artificial intelligence, natural language processing, software engineering, human-computer interaction, and, increasingly, the application of AI in medicine and healthcare. He also serves as MedTech Coordinator within the Imago-Mol Cluster, contributing technical expertise and research activities at the intersection of digital technologies and medicine. Since 2005, he has participated in numerous national and European research initiatives, including H2020 REVERT, EC2U, MetaNet4U, ALEAR, LT4eL, IRSmart, MEDIMAG-AI, and several COST Actions. He has coordinated research and innovation projects such as PIONIER AI, MUCKE, IRSmart, CompetIT&C, and HealthTech Connect. His recent work focuses particularly on artificial intelligence for medical diagnosis, smart health, multimodal data analysis, and responsible integration of AI into healthcare and society. Adrian Iftene has authored over 400 scientific papers and has extensive experience in organizing and chairing international conferences, workshops, and scientific events.
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Oriana Onicescu ROMANIA |
Senior Data Scientist and PhD candidate in Computer Science at "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iași, with 8 years of industry experience in Machine Learning applications. Her research focuses on Explainable AI (XAI) and the analysis of complex medical data, with the aim of developing clinically applicable solutions for real-world challenges. Guided by a vision of building trust in artificial intelligence, she actively collaborates with medical specialists to create safe technologies that clinicians can understand, use with confidence, and easily integrate into practice, thereby improving medical decisions and patient care.
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Mugurel Rata ROMANIA |
I am a Technical Lead at Duk-Tech, and I consider myself a problem solver who enjoys finding solutions and taking on challenges. Over the past 20 years in software development, I've been driven by curiosity—always eager to understand the intricate systems I work with. This mindset has led me to explore beyond my core expertise, diving into areas like Big Data and denormalized databases, while currently focusing on transitioning from Monolith Architecture to Azure Microservices Architecture using the Event-Driven Design pattern to build more robust, scalable, and future-ready solutions.
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Constantin Roman ROMANIA |
Constantin Roman is a veterinarian with experience in clinical practice and a strong orientation toward research. He joined the "Prof. Ostin C. Mungiu" Advanced Research and Development Center in Experimental Medicine – CEMEX in 2024, where he works in the field of experimental medicine. He graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Iași in 2014 and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Computer Science, within the Innovation, Interoperability, and Digital Transformation program. In parallel, he is a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Veterinary Medicine, with a research focus on neuroscience.
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