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ADEE 2024 Plenary 1: AI in education

Sunday, 8th September 2024 - 15:30 to 17:00
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Timezone: 

CEST (Brussels time)

Duration: 

90 minutes

Venue: 

GA0 Auditorium

Session synopsis: 



Day One at ADEE 2024 focuses on how we as academics can influence, manage and encourage ethical use of AI in the academic setting.

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be constantly in the news. AI technology is fundamentally transforming our lives, and healthcare is at the center of this revolution.  People advocate that AI can be faster or better than humans, and might make the dream of truly personalised medicine a reality.  But to what extent are such claims valid and substantiated?  What has AI really achieved? Can AI be really better than humans? Or how can humans collaborate with AI in order to get the best of both? We need not only think about AI model performance , but first think if the task at hand can be better solved with AI. As such, Maarten de Vos will clarify the potential of AI from a developer’s point of view, and aim to point to where there is added value from the healthcare professional's perspective.

We are delighted to welcome Maarten de Vos (KU Leuven) to share with us their view points on the future we face in this new AI assisted world.

Programme: 
15:20

Delegates take your seats 

15:30

Welcome to ADEE
Session hosts: Prof Barry Quinn and Prof Katleen VanDamme

15:35

ADEE 2024 official opening 
ADEE President Prof Brian O'Connell

15:40

Key note presentation and Q&A 
Maarten De Vos 

16:25

ADEE Excellence in Education Awards 
Mature Career Awards Recipients 2024 
Inter Professional Educator Awards Recipients 2024

16:45

Pathways to a healthy mind
A moment of well being by R. Volckaert from Fit4Work

16:55

Closing remarks

17:00

Session closes and awards recipient photography 

Chair: 

Katleen Vandamme

Professor of Restorative Dentistry – Implant Prosthodontics
KU Leuven, Belgium

Katleen is professor of Restorative Dentistry of the Department of Oral Health Sciences at the KU Leuven Belgium, where she is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education and training in oral implantology. She also holds the position of Coordinator of the Institute of Osseointegration KU Leuven. Her research interests include evidence-based dentistry,  mechanobiology in implant osseointegration, bone biology (in particular impaired bone conditions such as diabetes), skeletal tissue engineering, and teaching modalities and analytics. Katleen is president of BVOI/SBIO (Belgische Vereniging voor Orale Implantologie/Société Belge de l’Implantologie Orale), Education Delegate of the International Team for Implantology (ITI) BeLux. Katleen is a member of ADEE's regional council and is the chair of this year’s ADEE local organising committee.

Barry Quinn

Chair in Restorative Dentistry & Dental Education
University of Liverpool, School of Dentistry, UK

Professor Barry F.A. Quinn, Chair in Restorative Dentistry & Dental Education, Academic Lead for Restorative Dentistry, University of Liverpool, School of Dentistry. Barry is presently Secretary General of the Association Dental Education in Europe (ADEE), President of the British Alliance for Researchers in Dental Education and Scholarship (BARDES), co-President of the Dental Teachers of Professionalism in the UK and a past President of the Education Research Group (ERG) of the International Association of Dental Research (2018-2020) and metropolitan branch of the British Dental Association (2017). In 2017, Barry was the main lead for the Shaping the Future of Dental Education world workshop held at King’s College London.

At the University of Liverpool, Barry leads the integrated teaching of restorative dentistry for the collaborative learning core for the interprofessional education of dentist and dental therapy students. Barry is a past recipient of the ADEE mature educators award (2013) and interprofessional educators award (2016) and the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) emerging leaders. Barry’s main research has included interprofessional education, haptic virtual reality surgical skills education and has won many UK and international awards as well as having over 170 refereed publications and abstracts.

Speakers: 

Maarten De Vos

Research Professor
KU Leuven, Belgium

Maarten De Vos has a joint appointment as BOFZAP in the Departments of Engineering and Medicine at KU Leuven after being Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and Junior Professor at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. He obtained an MSc (2005) and PhD (2009) in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium. His academic work focuses on AI for healthcare monitoring and innovative biomedical monitoring for daily life applications. He is renown for the derivation of personalised biosignatures of patient health  and the incorporation of smart analytics into wearable sensors. 

His pioneering research in the field of mobile real-life brain-monitoring has won several innovation prizes, among which the prestigious Mobile Brain Body monitoring prize in 2017, the Children’s Prize for best childhood innovation in 2018,  the Martin Black Prize for the best paper in Physiological Measurements in 2019 and in 2021 he received the IEEE EMBS Benelux award for best paper in the biomedical field.

He has been guest editor for International Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, Sensors and Physiological Measurements and is currently on the editorial board of Journal of neural engineering, IEEE journal of biomedical health informatics and Nature Digital Health.

He has a strong interest in translational research, he co-founded Circadian Therapeutics with the aim to bring innovative home-monitoring solutions to people suffering from sleep and circadian disorders and is programme director of Benefit, a medical innovation programme.

Brian O’Connell

Professor of Restorative Dentistry
Trinity College Dublin

Brian O’Connell is currently Dean of Health Sciences at Trinity College, Dublin, with a special interest biomedical education. He co-leads the oral health component of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), in addition to research on treatment outcomes and the use of new technology in oral health care. Professor O’Connell is a core member of the European Platform for Better Oral Health, and President-Elect of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR).

Ronald Gorter

Associate Professor
Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam

Ronald Gorter, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), The Netherlands. He is former Director of Education at ACTA.

Ronald is ADEE Executive, represents ADEE on the Platform for Better Oral Health in Europe, and is Editor in Chief of the European Journal for Dental Education. He is (co-)author of about hundred Dutch and international professional and scientific publications.