{"id":21183,"date":"2025-03-14T12:44:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T16:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/?p=21183"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:15:33","slug":"monika-nanda-keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/monika-nanda-keynote-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Monika Nanda Delivers Keynote Speech at Renowned Virtual Q.I. Resident Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2017\/10\/NandaMonicaWebsite.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">UNC Anesthesiology is pleased to recognize Professor of Anesthesiology <strong>Monika Nanda, MBBS<\/strong>, <strong>MPH<\/strong>, as the keynote speaker at the Alfred C. Pinchak MD, PhD Research Symposium virtual Q.I. resident symposium in early March.\u00a0 Billed as the highlight of the academic year for the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Department of Anesthesiology, the Pinchak Research Symposium honors the legacy and continued stewardship of Case Western Reserve Professor of Anesthesiology and MetroHealth System (Cleveland, Ohio) Director of Computational Statistics and Data Engineering, Dr. Alfred C. Pinchak. Over the years, the Symposium has expanded into an <\/span><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">international conference drawing residents worldwide from MetroHealth house staff to residents in India and Colombia to showcase their QI and research projects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At this year&#8217;s symposium, Dr. Nanda delivered a keynote speech entitled, &#8220;<em>Artificial Intelligence in Anesthesiology: Transforming Precision and Practice.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/em>Her published work has examined how A.I. 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