OMA Annual Conference 2025
Medicine Now:
Navigating Uncharted Waters — Virtual Event
Harnessing AI to Advance Value-Based Care
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 — 6:00-7:30 p.m.
2025 has brought sweeping changes to the practice of medicine. Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, reductions in grants and research funding, the departure of key public health leaders, and a shifting national health agenda have created a challenging and uncertain landscape. As physicians and physician associates, you’re being asked to adapt in real time — often without a clear roadmap. But you’re not navigating this alone.
This Virtual Session is a 90-minute event featuring:
- Ashish J. Abraham, MD, MBA; CEO and Co-Founder, Foresight Health Solutions
- Frederick Chen, MD, MPH; Chief Health and Science Officer, American Medical Association
- Merage Ghane, PhD; Director of Responsible AI in Health, Coalition for Health AI
- Program Moderator: Brian Duty, MD, MBA; President, Oregon Medical Association
Join us at the virtual 2025 OMA Annual Conference on November 5 (6:00-7:30) to hear directly from health care leaders. The session is free to OMA members and their staff.
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About the Session
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how care is delivered, measured and experienced. Beyond its promise to ease clinical documentation, AI offers powerful tools for improving population health, targeting care management and advancing value-based care. But with these opportunities come critical questions about ethics, equity and accountability.
This session will explore how health care leaders can thoughtfully adopt AI to enhance outcomes and efficiency while safeguarding professional judgment, patient trust and fairness. Real-world examples will illustrate how AI can support predictive and prescriptive value-based care, mitigate risk and promote health equity — when implemented with transparency, strong governance and attention to bias and data quality.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how AI can advance population health and value-based care through predictive and prescriptive analytics.
- Identify ethical and operational considerations — including bias, transparency and data integrity — in implementing AI tools.
- Discuss how AI can augment team-based care, strengthen clinician well-being and build trust with patients while advancing health equity.
About the Speakers
Ashish J. Abraham, MD, MBA
CEO and Co-Founder, Foresight Health Solutions
Dr. Ashish Abraham is a physician-entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Foresight Health Solutions, an AI and machine learning-enabled, value-based care analytics company that serves community-based healthcare organizations and networks in seven states. Dr. Abraham is also a consultant to clients in the areas of SDoH analytics, quality assurance, strategic planning and health program design and implementation. Prior to co-founding Foresight Health Solutions, Dr. Abraham was the founding CEO and President of Altruista Health, a care management software company that provides solutions to health plans across 44 states serving a population of more than 50 million covered lives. The company was acquired by HealthEdge in 2020. Prior to founding Altruista Health, Dr. Abraham served as the SVP and Chief Medical Officer of United Health’s Government Sector Care Management Organization with responsibility for health plans in seven states. In the past, he has also served as a Principal and physician-leader at Mercer Consulting, where he led healthcare strategy projects for commercial clients and for 15 state Medicaid and county governments.
Frederick Chen, MD, MPH
Group VP & Chief Health & Science Officer, Health, Science & Ethics at American Medical Association
Dr. Chen has served as the Chief Health and Science Officer at the American Medical Association since July 2022. Previously, he held the position of Chief of Family Medicine at Harborview Medical Center from January 2011 to June 2022 and was a Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Washington from July 1996 to June 2022, where he also served as Vice Chair for Clinical Services and Director of the Family Medicine Residency Network. Additional experience includes a role as Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, HRSA, from July 2010 to June 2014, and Medical Director at the Uniform Medical Plan of Washington from March 2007 to 2011, where he focused on clinical coverage decisions using evidence-based medicine. Educational credentials encompass an MD from the University of California, San Francisco, an MPH in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BS in Biology and German literature from Emory University.
Merage Ghane, Ph.D.
Director of Responsible AI in Health, Coalition for Health AI
Merage Ghane, Ph.D., is the Director of Responsible AI in Health at the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI), where she leads efforts to ensure the safe, fair and effective design, development, implementation and use of AI in healthcare. She brings together multiple health sector stakeholders, developers and policymakers to co-create practical tools, guidance and services that embed responsibility across the AI lifecycle. With a background in clinical psychology, behavioral neuroscience and machine learning, her work bridges technical, clinical and social perspectives. Prior to CHAI, she held roles as NIH T32 post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh and as principal behavioral designer focused on ML/AI in Health at ideas42. Dr. Ghane is committed to advancing health AI systems and processes that serve both innovation and impact for all.
Brian Duty, MD, MBA
OMA President
Professor of Urology, Oregon Health & Science University
Brian Duty, MD, MBA, is a Professor of Urologic Surgery at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), where his clinical practice focuses on minimally invasive and endourologic surgery. In addition to his clinical work, he serves as OHSU’s Senior Director of Strategic Outreach, helping to guide partnerships and relationships with hospitals and health systems across Oregon and Southwest Washington. Dr. Duty is deeply involved in physician advocacy and organized medicine. He will serve as President of the Oregon Medical Association effective October 4, 2025. He is the Immediate Past President of the Oregon Urological Society, Chair of State Advocacy for the American Urological Association (AUA), and Chair of the Health Policy Committee for the Western Section of the AUA.