Presented September 9, 2026 at the 2026 APSF Stoelting Conference on “SOS!: Signals of Safety… Safely across the Patient’s Perioperative Journey”
ABOUT THE SPEAKER(S)
Joshua Biro, PhD
Research Scientist, MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University
Joshua Biro, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University. His research draws on cognitive systems engineering and human factors to study the safe, effective, and equitable integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare. His work focuses on how clinicians interact with AI-enabled technologies in real-world clinical environments, including issues related to safety, trust, workflow integration, usability, and human-AI teaming.
Dr. Biro has received the MedStar Early Investigator Grant to study generative AI in patient-provider communication and an R03 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to investigate the implementation of ambient digital scribes in primary care. He has delivered invited talks on AI in healthcare to clinical, academic, and industrial audiences nationwide and has published in prestigious journals including npj Digital Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and the British Journal of Anaesthesia.
Dr. Biro earned his PhD and MS in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.
