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Day 1 | 28 March 2025

1400–1530 hrs	INAUGURAL AND FELICITATION Bioethics in the context of healthcare justice: Looking back and looking ahead 20 years of NBC & 32 years of FMES-IJME FMES-IJME Ethics Award Felicitation This session is open to the public. Click here to view the YouTube livestream. For attending all other sessions, please register. Chairs: Sanjay Nagral & Arul Dhas T
1400–1530 hrs	Welcome Address & Introduction to Co-hosts Sanjay Nagral & Arul Dhas T Introduction to Conference Theme Lubna Duggal & Sayantan Datta FMES-IJME Ethics Award Lopa Mehta & Anant Phadke Citation Reading: Meenakshi D'Cruz & Georgiaria (Ria) Fernandes Awardee Acceptance Speeches
1530–1600 hrs	Break
1600–1730 hrs	PLENARY 1 Health technology assessment & AI: Past & present Chairs: Mala Ramanathan & Sandra Albert
1600–1730 hrs	Keynote Address 1 Contemporary healthcare ecosystem and heath-AI: Opportunities and challenges towards strengthening health justice Indranil Keynote Address 2 Locating health-AI in health technology discourse: Historical and contemporary perspectives on health technologies assessment Shankar Prinja Keynote Address 3 Ethical and regulatory adaptations of health technology assessment for articulating value in medical AI Calvin Ho
1730–1800 hrs	Break
1800–1930 hrs	SESSION 1 AI applications and psychiatry: Ethics, governance, and entrepreneurships Chairs: Sunita Simon Kurpad & Sunita Sheel
1800–1930 hrs	Speaker 1 AI and mental healthcare: Challenges and possible solutions Dilip V Jeste Speaker 2 ICMR AI ethics guidelines: Critical reflections from a mental health researcher and practitioner Suresh Bada Math Speaker 3 AI application in counselling care: Insights from a start up with a global presence Smriti Joshi

Day 2 | 29 March 2025

1600–1730 hrs	SESSION 2 Health digitization in India: Voice from the grassroots and policy spaces Chairs: Sylvia Karpagam & Hammad Durrani
1600–1730 hrs	Speaker 1 On the frontlines of digitization: ASHAs’ experiences from India Sreerupa Speaker 2 Digital health in India: Ground realities Narendra Gupta Speaker 3 Digitization in India: Hopes and despair Usha Ramanathan
1730–1800 hrs	Break
1800–1930 hrs	PLENARY 2 Health-AI: Diving deeper into ethics and human rights matters Chairs: Nandini Kumar & Joy Mammen
1800–1930 hrs	Keynote Address 1 Health-AI ethics and issues of justice: Local and global perspectives of users and developers Rohit Malpani & Andreas Reis Keynote Address 2 Role of social science and humanities in responsible health-AI Siby K George

Day 3 | 4 April 2025

1600–1730 hrs	PLENARY 3 Health-AI policies and governance: Going beyond commercial interests Chairs: Vivek Divan & Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran
1600–1730 hrs	Keynote Address 1 Digital health: Legal and ethical challenges Dipika Jain Keynote Address 2 Health-AI regulatory and legal global an local ecosystems: Critical insights towards a way forward Barry Solaiman Keynote Address 3 Health-AI policies and governance discourse: Have we got it right? Anita Gurumurthy
1730–1800 hrs	Break
1800–1930 hrs	SESSION 3 AI & marginality: Users’ perspectives from transgender persons and people with disabilities Chairs: Sayantan Datta & Shampa Sengupta
1800–1930 hrs	Speaker 1 Health-AI: Revolution or reinforcement of old biases? Mridul D Speaker 2 Rebuilding identity through AI: A stroke survivor's journey Mukul Pandya Speaker 3 Burden of making choices: From identity to access Abhiti (Ell) Gupta

Day 4 | 5 April 2025

1600–1730 hrs	SESSION 4 Artificial intelligence & academic integrity: Bridging the gap in scholarly publishing Chairs: Lubna Duggal & Sayantan Datta
1600–1730 hrs	Speaker 1 Negotiating ethical frontiers of thinking in the age of AI Neha Mishra Speaker 2 AI as a researcher’s intelligent assistant: Boundaries and responsible use Sunaina Singh Speaker 3 Copyright Issues in Generative AI Piyali Mitra Speaker 4 WAME guidelines and the ethics of generative AI in scholarly communications Chris Zielinski
1730–1800 hrs	Break
1800–1930 hrs	PLENARY 4 Foundations and transformations: AI, healthcare, and digital planetary health Chairs: Amar Jesani & Sujatha N
1800–1930 hrs	Summary of Conference Proceedings: Presentation by Rapporteurs Team Rapporteuring Anchor: Sandhya Srinivasan Rapporteurs: Vyahruti Prakya, Ananya Venkatesh, Srestha Majumdar & Niharika Banerjee Valedictory Address 1 AI in Medical Education and Research: Challenges and Opportunities Alvin B. Marcelo Valedictory Address 2 The Ethical Foundations of Digital Planetary Health Chi Yeung Eric Ip Vote of Thanks Olinda Timms

HOST AND CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT

Forum for Medical Ethics Society (FMES)

O-18, Nav Bhavna Premises, Co-operative Housing Society Ltd., 422, Veer Savarkar Marg, Prabhadevi, Mumbai 400025, India

Conference Coordinators: Mahendra Shinde & Vijay Sawant | (M) +91 75062 65856 Secretariat email: [email protected]

Conference co-hosts: Christian Medical College Vellore, Vellore, India