Centenary Speaker Series to Focus on AI and Medicine; Ochsner Physician Outlines the Future
The physicians, nurses and health care workers training today will spend their careers working alongside artificial intelligence, and Dr. Jason Hill is helping build that future now. Hill, system vice chair for hospital medicine and innovation at Ochsner Health, is a member of Ochsner’s Artificial Intelligence Steering Committee (AISC) and has led system-wide efforts to bring AI into patient care. He will share what he has learned at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in the Whited Room of Bynum Commons at Centenary College of Louisiana. The talk is free and open to the public.
In “You Are Training for a Job That Doesn’t Exist Yet: AI, Clinical Partnership, and the Future of Medicine,” Hill will draw on real-world AI deployments across a large health system, his experience redesigning medical education around AI and the rise of physician informatics as a career path. He will explore how the physician’s role is changing, which skills will matter most in an AI-enabled world and how clinicians can prepare for a profession being reinvented in real time. A Q&A will follow.
Hill’s work reaches close to home. Ochsner Health, the largest health system in Louisiana, partners with LSU Health Shreveport to operate Ochsner LSU Health, which includes North Louisiana’s only Level I trauma center. The talk is designed for practicing physicians, nurses, health care administrators and others in the Shreveport-Bossier medical community, as well as students considering careers in health care.
“I’m honored to speak with the students at Centenary about artificial intelligence and the future of healthcare,” said Dr. Jason Hill, Vice Chair, Hospital Medicine and Innovation, Ochsner Health. “The students entering medicine today will spend their entire careers working alongside AI. AI already helps our clinicians learn, document, and identify important information. AI is reinventing the physician's role in real time, and we must prepare the next generation to lead that change with the judgment, empathy and expertise that patients will always need.”
“Dr. Hill brings a rare perspective to this conversation,” said Dr. Karen Soul, vice president for academic affairs and provost at Centenary. “As a practicing physician and a leader in the field, he can speak both to how AI is being used in medicine today and to how it will shape the future of health care. At Centenary, we want our students to think critically about AI, understanding how it can support their work and weighing the ethical questions it raises. We’re grateful that Dr. Hill is sharing his insights with our students and with local health care providers.”
As one of Ochsner Health’s associate chief medical information officers, Hill led system-wide projects in artificial intelligence, decision support analytics, predictive analytics, voice recognition, transitions of care and patient access. He serves on the Artificial Intelligence Steering Committee (AISC). In his current role, he drives the adoption and scaling of new technologies across Ochsner’s hospital medicine service line.
Hill is board certified in internal medicine and clinical informatics. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Louisiana Tech University, a Master of Medical Management from Tulane University and his medical degree from Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans. He completed his internal medicine/pediatrics residency at the University of Texas at Houston. He speaks frequently at conferences on health care innovation, digital transformation, AI and clinical informatics.
Hill’s talk is the third installment of AI in the Modern World, part of the Centenary College Community Speaker Series. The series explores how AI is changing the way people work, learn, heal and connect. Earlier sessions covered AI in everyday life and AI in business.
Reserve your FREE ticket by clicking “Register Here” at centenary.edu/speakerseries.