Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Danna Daughtry - Club Administrator
Featured Speaker:
David Friend, MD, MBA, WG ‘84, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company, Advisory Board Member, Leonard Davis Institute
AI seems to be everywhere these days, with a proliferation of AI-enabled point solutions (applications that improve a single activity or task) being made available almost daily to healthcare organizations to address a wide range of key structural problems, including but not limited to labor shortages, rising costs of care, and continuing margin compression. However, according to a recent article published by McKinsey, this wave of AI innovation is likely result in two critical shifts: 1) the development of a modular, connected AI architecture, and 2) the creation of clinical data foundries, with implications for providers, payers, health services & technology (HST) companies, investors, and hyperscalers.
One of the authors of this article is one of our own, David Friend, MD, MBA (WG ’84). In this session, David will first summarize the key points made in the article regarding the anticipated future of AI in healthcare. We will then answer questions that have been submitted in advance by registrants. Finally, we will open it up for your questions “Ask ChatGPT” style and David will do his best to answer them.
We hope you will join us for what is sure to be a provocative, potentially somewhat scary, and illuminating discussion.
Registration:
- Participation is free to Dues Paying Members of the WHAA and Current WHCM Program Students.
- Others are welcome to participate for a $25 fee.
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David Friend, MD, MBA, WG ’84, currently serves as a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare (article), and on the External Advisory Board of The Wharton School’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Throughout his career, Dr. Friend has applied his expertise across various leadership roles in healthcare. His experience particularly relevant to this webinar includes serving as Board Member and Global Healthcare Partner at Willis Towers Watson; Chairman and CEO of Palladium, a global healthcare and data analytics firm affiliated with Harvard Business School; and as Visiting Scientist at Harvard Medical School’s Mass General Brigham Innovation Center for Information Technology. In the latter role, he served as a thought leader and, based on his pioneering research, authored Healthcare.com, RX for Reform, which helped lead to the creation of Digital Healthcare.
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