Temerty Medicine Talks
Held regularly, Temerty Medicine Talks (formerly known as UofTMed Talks) are intimate, intelligent and inspiring takes on how scientific discovery and collaborative research at Temerty Medicine and our partner hospitals are advancing health care.
Join us at our next event
From Promise to Practice:
AI in Medicine, Five Years On
Friday, February 27, 2026
12:00 – 12:45 p.m. (ET)
All registrants will receive the link to watch live or view the recording at their convenience after the event.
At our inaugural Temerty Medicine Talk in 2020, The Globe and Mail health columnist André Picard sat down with Dr. Muhammad Mamdani — the director of U of T’s newly launched Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM) — to discuss the future of artificial intelligence in medicine and T-CAIREM’s potential in the field.
Now, five years later, AI is reshaping patient care, accelerating discovery and redefining the skills health professionals need to thrive — and T-CAIREM is fulfilling its promise as a global nexus for health care of the future.
Join us at our next Temerty Medicine Talk as Picard and Mamdani reconnect for a timely update. Together, they’ll explore real-world examples of innovative AI use across health care, highlight AI-powered research emerging in Toronto and beyond, and examine how T-CAIREM is laying the data infrastructure and educational foundations needed for U of T — and Canada — to continue leading the AI revolution in medicine.
Kindly register by February 25th. A link to watch live or view the recording will be provided to all registrants prior to the event. This event is open to the public, no affiliation to the University of Toronto is required.
SPEAKERS
Muhammad Mamdani
Director, Temerty Faculty of Medicine Centre for Artificial Intelligence Education and Research in Medicine (T-CAIREM), University of Toronto
Clinical Lead – AI, Ontario Health
Dr. Muhammad Mamdani is the director of T-CAIREM, which seeks to improve lives around the world through its world-class AI education programs, multidisciplinary research opportunities and access to secure health data platforms. As the Clinical Lead for AI at Ontario Health, he develops and executes strategies to promote widespread AI adoption across Ontario, aiming to enhance system efficiency, patient outcomes and the experience of health care providers. In addition to his roles with T-CAIREM and Ontario Health, Mamdani is a professor at U of T’s Department of Medicine, the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. He has previously been named among Canada’s Top 40 under 40 and in 2024 was named international AI Leader of the Year by AIMed.
André Picard
Health Columnist, The Globe and Mail
André Picard is one of Canada’s top public policy writers. He is an eight-time National Newspaper Awards nominee and past winner of the prestigious Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service Journalism. In 2023, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada.
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Past events include:
October 2025 — Advancing cancer care, together: the Toronto Breast Surgery Collaborative
April 2025 — Towards New Heights: Dean Lisa Robinson In Conversation with Andre Picard
April 2024 — The Trauma Team - Advancing City-Wide Injury Care, Research and Education
December 2023 — Healthy Planet, Healthy Lives – Climate Resilience and Sustainability in Health Care
April 2023 — The Resistance – Taking Action Against Deadly Superbugs
November 2022 — Feeding Health – Harnessing the Power of Nutrition in Medicine
April 2022 — Renewing Canadian Health Care – Solutions from Family Medicine
December 2021 — Aerospace Medicine: Taking Health to New Heights
October 2021 — Towards Hope: New Frontiers in Neurodegenerative Disease Research
June 2021 — The Age of Anxiety
April 2021 — On Aging and Place
December 2020 — In Pursuit of Equity: Transforming Physician Training
November 2020 — Science on the Front Line: COVID-19 and Beyond
October 2020 — Medicine and the Machine: The Artificial Intelligence Health Revolution
May 2019 — Chronic Pain and the Opioid Crisis
September 2018 — Cannabis
May 2018 — End of Life Care in the Era of Assisted Dying
September 2017 — Insulin and the Future of Diabetes
May 2017 — Brain Cancer Dream Team