APA AI Bootcamp at Stanford: Advancing Pancreatology Research with Artificial Intelligence

Dates: April 11–12, 2026
Location: Stanford Computing and Data Science (CoDa) Building

Host: Stanford University
Sponsor: American Pancreatic Association

Purpose. Launch APA’s first dedicated AI Bootcamp to equip pancreatology researchers with hands-on, ethical, and reproducible AI tools for discovery, analysis, grant writing, and research automation.

Program Highlights

  • Three hands-on modules:
    1. AI literature search, reviews, writing, prompt engineering
    2. AI for grant editing
    3. Agentic AI for biomedical research
  • Guided breakouts with TAs
  • Ethics and future-looking panels
  • Recorded content as APA YouTube tutorials

Audience

  • Current APA members
  • Trainees, faculty, industry scientists
  • International applicants welcome

Leadership

  • Course Director: Sohail Husain, MD (Stanford)
  • Co-Director: Venkata Akshintala, MD, PhD (Hopkins)
  • APA Leadership: Ashok Saluja, PhD