CEPL Workshop

AI AND HEALTHCARE

Rethinking Healthcare in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Date: Wednesday, December 3 rd , 2025
Time: 2.30pm to 5.30pm

Venue: UCD School of Philosophy Room 520, 5 th floor, Newman Building, Dublin

All Welcome!

To register: (opens in a new window)https://forms.gle/zfWN6QEWe8xw98tL9

The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare is rising and promises a deep, disruptive impact on the pharmaceutical sector, collection of data, diagnostic process, treatment planning, and relationship between healthcare systems and patients. AI healthcare raises several epistemic, ethical, and social questions that need to be carefully addressed to ensure a fair, transparent, and responsible use. This interdisciplinary workshop will explore the opportunities and challenges of this new era of healthcare.

Inquiries: (opens in a new window)silvia.ivani@ucd.ie

PROGRAM

2.30 - 2.40: Introduction

2.40 - 3.20: Dr. Ayushi Tandon
“Data Created (NOT) for AI: An Ethnographic Look at digital data Creation”

3.20 - 4.00: Dr. Kevin Doherty
“Designing for Care: The Great Promise and Many Challenges of AI in Healthcare”

4.00 - 4.15: Coffee break

4.15 - 4.55: Dr. Heike Felzmann
TBA

4.55 - 5.30: Final discussion

Contributors:
- (opens in a new window)Ayushi Tandon is an Assistant Professor at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Her research interests focus on user engagement with digital platforms and the economic and societal implications of digital technology usage. Dr Tandon was recognized as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2022.

- (opens in a new window)Kevin Doherty is AdAstra Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. His research focuses on advancing a human-centred approach to person-centred care for the digital age — through the design, development and evaluation of digital tools to enhance the clinical practice of healthcare, everyday mental health, and digital wellbeing. Current research projects span the development of digital and AI tools to support the online and face-to-face practice of therapy, self-report technologies to inform and facilitate access to mental
healthcare, and decision-support systems to augment care for chronic, co-morbid conditions.

- (opens in a new window)Heike Felzmann is a Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the School of History and Philosophy, University of Galway. Her current research addresses primarily ethical issues in AI and robot ethics. She is interested in ethics by design approaches, the question of trustworthiness and transparency, robot ethics, relational information technologies and health applications, especially in the area of mental health.

This event is hosted by the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life (CEPL),

UCD School ofPhilosophy, and Research Ireland.