
Andrej Thurzo
Andrej Thurzo is an Associate Professor and the head of the Department of Orthodontics and Regenerative and Forensic Dentistry at the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, in Bratislava, Slovakia. He received his MD with a specialization in dentistry from Comenius University in 2006 and his Ph.D. from Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave Lekárska Fakulta in 2010. He obtained a Master's of Public Health from Slovenská zdravotnícka univerzita in 2013 and a Master's of Health Administration in 2014. From 1998 to 2003, he was a web coordinator for the British Council, Bratislava. From 2004 to 2005, he worked in new digital technology implementation at the Academic Library of the Medical Faculty at Comenius University. He has been a leading orthodontist at the clinic Sangre Azul since 2013 and an Associate Professor since 2022. His research interests include 3D medical printing, bioprinting, artificial intelligence, orthodontics, forensic dentistry, and regenerative medicine.
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How to train an AI-nurse? - AI-agents in healthcare providers
Step into the future of healthcare with a brief yet dynamic 10-minute session, where we will showcase how AI agents can transform the daily work of healthcare professionals. We will introduce the concept of the "AI Nurse" – a functional and highly useful virtual assistant that can handle a portion of communication and patient monitoring tasks, as well as alleviate part of the administrative burden, enabling more personalized care. Through concrete examples, we will demonstrate how easily such an assistant can be "trained" today, even without programming knowledge, and how this approach can optimize the operations of clinics and hospitals. Get ready for an inspiring session that reveals why integrating artificial intelligence is the key to modern, efficient, and safe healthcare. -
AI in medical education - concrete examples of coming changes for the next three years (12:57 - 13:07)
This presentation will provide an insight into the radical changes that artificial intelligence is bringing to medical education. AI technologies such as personalised learning tools, virtual reality and instant feedback are gradually replacing traditional forms of frontline education such as lectures with more interactive and effective formats. Over the next three years, we can expect to see the introduction of hybrid programmes, the integration of artificial intelligence into the curriculum, and the gradual disappearance of outdated teaching methods. This presentation will present specific scenarios of these changes and their impact on medical education, both at undergraduate, specialist and lifelong levels. Specific innovations such as personalised learning, interactive simulations or automated assessments in the Opus Sapientae AI demonstration system will be presented. The talk will outline how medical professionals, educators and physicians can adapt to these changes, and outline a vision of medical education in the near future where AI plays a key partner role in the preparation of future physicians. -
ITAPA OPEN TALK
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IGNITE SESSION: AI-transformation of digital education in healthcare: Next-generation doctors in the era of artificial intelligence skills and tools
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way doctors are educated and trained. This presentation presents the potential of artificial intelligence for the revolution of digital education in healthcare in the context of the coming fundamental transformations of diagnostic procedures, communication and the PZS itself. It will present the current use of AI tools in medical education, as well as future visions of personalized education with the help of AI. It will also introduce the demands of a new era of doctors who will have to combine expert knowledge and critical thinking with mastery of advanced AI skills and tools. The aim is to highlight how AI is becoming an integral part of medical education in preparing doctors with the hybrid competencies needed for the second half of this century. -
Digital medicine in the doctor's office
The lecture will focus on the latest trends in digital health, artificial intelligence and telemedicine. Innovative solutions and tools that are transforming healthcare delivery and improving patient outcomes will be presented.
The lecture will touch on the following topics:
- Introduction to Digital Health and Telemedicine: Definition, Trends and Benefits for Patients and Healthcare Professionals.
- Practical applications in the KORFS clinic: Presentation of successful examples of telemedicine implementation in different fields of medicine.
- Telemedicine tools and platforms.
- Benefits and challenges of telemedicine.
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ITAPA OPEN TALK: When will we live to be 200 years old?
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AI in Dental monitoring of maxillo-orthopedic patients
The combination of artificial intelligence and telemedicine has changed dentistry beyond recognition in just three years. However, AI is mainly responsible for the shift in the paradigm of treatment with dental braces in jaw orthopedics - orthodontics. Today's algorithms can usually detect tooth decay, poor hygiene, chipped teeth or gingivitis from a home video scan. This scan is taken by the patient himself at home with his own mobile phone. AI helps doctors in practice today to segment CBCT data, automate cephalometrics and communicate with patients. The lecture summarizes 5 years of practical clinical experience with the telehealth solution called "Dental Monitoring", which Docent Thurzo, a pioneer of invisible braces, implemented at the Sangre Azul clinic. Today, AI in radiology, but also generative AI (such as ChatGPT or Midjourney) fundamentally change not only the clinical aspects of dentistry, but also its forms and the content of education at medical schools.
In this context, two quarantined publications were also published: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Dental Education: A Review and Guide for Curriculum Update and Where Is the Artificial Intelligence Applied in Dentistry? Systematic Review and Literature Analysis -
Individualization of medicine through 3D printing
Why should you attend the lecture?
Print your own cells or bioprinting. Evolution in health care, individualization of medicine, expected changes in the quality of human life? What changes will it bring? Will it change the medicine only or will it bring a wide progress to society?
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Individualization of medicine - its customization to the unique patient - is the next logical evolutionary step in health care. Using 3D scanners today we can easily record the specific anatomy of thepatient and through a 3D printing we can " materialize " for example individualized implants, respecting the fact that everybody is unique literally every-body is unique. Apart from individualized implants, it is the 3D printing with cells, which changes the appearance of medicine more than anything known to us for last 1000 years. Printing patient's own cells - bioprinting - is the beginning of an era of regenerative medicine , which among other things will also raise significant societal change. Today expected changes in quality of life, longevity, but also opens pandora's box of "enhancements" - upgrades of the natural and healthy physiological functions or properties of the human body.