Presenter: Dr. Alper Celik (Senior Bioinformatician, HPC4Health / The Hospital for Sick Children)

This workshop explores the use of artificial intelligence, especially large language models, for processing healthcare data such as electronic health records. Learners will examine how LLMs can enhance clinical decision support, automate documentation, and uncover patterns in complex datasets. The presentation highlights benefits such as improved efficiency and richer insights, while addressing risks including hallucinations, bias amplification, privacy concerns, and over‑reliance on automated summaries. Students will study pitfalls unique to healthcare data and gain an understanding of key technical challenges: data standardization, model validation, safety monitoring, and ensuring transparency in clinically sensitive environments.