July 30 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
About the Speaker:
Zahi A. Fayad, PhD, FAHA, FACC, FISMRM
Guest Speaker
Zahi A. Fayad, PhD, is the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Medical Imaging and Bioengineering at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, founding Director of the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute (BMEII), and leads Mount Sinai’s system-wide Healthspan initiative. His work focuses on shifting medicine upstream — using advanced imaging, AI, and multi-omics to detect disease before clinical events occur and to extend healthy years of life. His research examines how lifestyle stressors — chronic stress, diet, exercise, and sleep — shape long-term health. He currently leads the Mount Sinai DigiTwin Project, an AI-driven platform that models individual health trajectories to guide precision prevention. Dr. Fayad and colleagues at Mount Sinai are finalists in the $80m XPRIZE Healthspan competition, where they are evaluating a multimodal strategy to meaningfully extend human healthspan. He is also a co-founder of Trained Therapeutix Discovery, an early-stage biotech company.