Live from Apollo House: Building the Modern Health Stack in the Age of Superintelligence

Jan 27, 2026

Chelsea Sumner, a translational health and AI strategy leader at NVIDIA, and Rasu Shrestha, Advocate Health’s chief innovation and commercialization executive, join a live panel. They discuss agentic workflows, open models and platforms for clinical AI. They explore clean, connected data, reducing clinician burnout, and building trust, governance, and collaboration across startups, health systems, and big tech.

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INSIGHT

Purpose-Driven AI Humanizes Care

Advocate Health treats AI as purpose-driven infrastructure, not a shiny object to chase.
Rasu Shrestha says AI humanizes care by reducing burnout and improving clinician interactions.

ANECDOTE

Largest ADOC Deployment Improves Radiology

Advocate Health runs the country's largest implementation of ADOC across eight million imaging procedures a year.
Rasu Shrestha shares that this has decreased burnout and increased accuracy for radiologists.

ADVICE

Feed AI Clean, Structured Lab Data

Ensure AI gets high-quality input: clean, structured, validated data is essential.
Brian Caveney emphasizes lab data as particularly reliable for powering AI models.

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What does it really take to achieve Health Moonshots in the Age of Superintelligence?

Recorded live at StartUp Health’s Apollo House during JPM Healthcare Week, this panel brings together leaders operating at the intersection of healthcare delivery, diagnostics, cloud infrastructure, and AI. Moderated by Angela Shippy, MD, of Amazon Web Services, the conversation explores how AI is moving from point solutions to foundational infrastructure across the modern health stack.

Together, the panel examines why clean, connected data is essential, how agentic workflows can reduce burnout and improve clinician and patient experience, and what it will take to move healthcare from transactional to truly person-centered care. The discussion also tackles trust, governance, and why collaboration across startups, health systems, and big tech is critical to delivering real-world impact.

This is a grounded, forward-looking conversation about how purpose-driven leadership can turn exponential technology into practical outcomes that matter.

Featured Guests

Angela Shippy, MD
Senior Physician Executive and Clinical Innovation Lead, Global Healthcare and Nonprofit, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Brian Caveney, MD, MPH
Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Labcorp
Rasu Shrestha, MD
EVP, Chief Innovation and Commercialization Officer, Advocate Health
Chelsea Sumner, PharmD
Translational Health and AI Strategy Leader, NVIDIA
Mark Andrews
Senior Principal, AGI, Product Leader, Amazon

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