Talk about a great surprise! On May 30, I had the privilege to receive the Outstanding Oral Presentation Award at SAVY: the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Veterinary Medicine at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. The presentation was entitled, “From Guidelines to Practice Communicating Responsible AI in Companion Animal Medicine,” an expanded study of last year’s SAVY poster examining how leading veterinary professionals communicate, understand, and operationalize responsible AI in practice.
The award was sponsored by ANI.ML Health. In a social post commenting about Germinder receiving the award, ANI.ML Health CEO Christopher Pinard, a clinician-scientist, commented, “Congratulations again. Your talk was wonderful and your hacking even better.”
The “Hackathon” he referred to was run by Pinard and the Cornell team, where my fellow team members and I developed a prototype app to help veterinary clinics develop responsible AI policies. Yes, I am now an official hacker in addition to a newly minted PhD. (The good kind).
This award has special meaning to me because I submitted the abstract as a doctoral student and presented it as a new Ph.D. I am thrilled and excited to see how my research can be applied to veterinary medicine, a field I have been honored to participate in so many ways.
I’m excited to get this study published and conduct additional studies once funding is secured. And, I also plan to continue spreading the “good news” about veterinary medicine as editor and publisher of Goodnewsforpets.com.
Interested in learning more? I will be attending the AVMA conference July 10-14. Please contact me at lgerminder@germinder.com or connect with me on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/lgerminder.
Lea-Ann Germinder
