AIMed AI Champions: A week of celebration

It was only a year ago that we convened in southern California for AIMed19 with over 600 of us in attendance, and not one of us would have predicted that it was to be the last such gathering for most of us for a long while. This year, in the spirit of celebrating artificial intelligence during the COVID-19 pandemic, we launched the AIMed AI Champions Awards in several categories during the week-long virtual sessions focused on the hot topics of this year of artificial intelligence in healthcare. The first topic of the week was Education of AI in Healthcare. This session had an inspiring gathering of clinicians at all levels of education of artificial intelligence. The winner of the AI Champion Rising Star award, Dr. Addison Gearhart, eloquently stated that she did not allow her lack of formal artificial intelligence education to be a deterrent in creatively using it as a resource for completing projects and building programs.