Albright Symposium explores AI’s role in medicine

“Compassionate communication and physical examination—these are not going to go away,” assured HMS Dean for Medical Education Bernard S. Chang, AB ’93, MD, MMSc ’05, during the 2025 Hollis L. Albright, MD ’31 Symposium, which focused on artificial intelligence in medicine. As the keynote speaker, Chang highlighted how AI is being integrated into classrooms, clinics, and hospital wards to enhance learning and patient care.

Earlier in the symposium, Beverly Woo, AB ’70, MD, an HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Arky Family Associate Director and Advisor of the Francis Weld Peabody Society, introduced her mentee Marta Williams, MD ’25. Williams was honored as the recipient of the 2025 Albright Scholar Award for her demonstrated excellence in the surgical sciences. Additionally, 2010 Albright Scholar recipient Regan W. Bergmark, MD ’11, MPH ’23—now an HMS assistant professor of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery and a surgeon at BWH—shared a personal story of becoming a patient at BWH due to a brain lesion in 2023. 

HMS Dean George Q. Daley, AB ’82, MD ’91, PhD, briefly discussed AI’s role in health care, emphasizing its impact on research, education, and patient treatment. Tenley E. Albright, MD ’61, delivered the symposium’s opening remarks. In 2001, she and her brother, Nile L. Albright, AB ’61, MD, established the endowed symposium at HMS in memory of their father, an alumnus who devoted his life to surgery, patient care, and student mentorship.