News
This page serves as the public activity log for AI4ED, capturing conference presentations, capstone milestones, prototype progress, team events, and external-facing project updates.
May 12–13, 2026
Banff Retreat Event
Hosted by Dr. Steve Drew and co-hosted by Dr. Jessalyn Kathryn Holodinsky, the AI4ED Banff retreat created space to step back from day-to-day project work and focus on where clinically grounded AI can be most useful in emergency care. Sessions covered both the practical and the still-emerging: bedside decision support, chart summarization that can give physicians back some of their time, and care pathways designed more closely around patients. The conversation consistently balanced opportunity with caution, keeping implementation quality and real clinical fit at the center.
The room brought together researchers from the Cumming School of Medicine, the Schulich School of Engineering, and the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, alongside Emergency Care Alberta, emergency physicians, health-system administrators, and patient partners. That cross-disciplinary exchange was the point of the event, and it worked: new collaborations and research directions are already taking shape. We are grateful to the Schulich Momentum Fund for making the retreat possible and to everyone who contributed their time, perspective, and practical insight.
Quarterly Newsletter
LLM4ED Quarterly Newsletter
Our quarterly newsletter brings together recent publications, demonstrations, team activities, and research progress across AI4ED. It offers a concise project snapshot without requiring a full site tour.
April 1, 2026
2026 Schulich Engineering Capstone Fair
It was exciting to see the capstone team, led by Hutton Ledingham, present EDSim at the 2026 Schulich Engineering Capstone Fair. What began as an early prototype has matured into a more substantial interdisciplinary research effort, capable of producing promising initial results and offering meaningful insight into Canadian emergency department workflows. The team represented the project exceptionally well and communicated both the technical depth of the simulator and its broader research potential.
March 16, 2026
AI4ED Team Retreat Lunch
Our team gathered for a retreat lunch to reconnect across workstreams, reflect on recent progress, and discuss upcoming priorities for AI4ED research, development, and dissemination.
October 17, 2025
Cumming School of Medicine AI Symposium: Beyond the Algorithm
At the Cumming School of Medicine AI Symposium, Gerry Wu and Hutton Ledingham presented work on LLM-guided summarization and simulation roadmaps, while Swaleh Zaidi contributed patient-centered evaluation insight. The symposium provided a strong venue for discussing how AI4ED can connect technical innovation with clinically meaningful use cases.
May 28, 2025
Emergency Medicine Research Day 2025
Gerry Wu and Alexander Burn presented our latest work on patient-chart summarization and agent-based simulation, helping broaden awareness of AI4ED within the emergency medicine research community.
May 23-28, 2025
International Conference on Emergency Medicine (ICEM)
At ICEM 2025, Gerry Wu presented the poster Fine-tuned large language models, guided by physician feedback, can improve patient chart summarization for emergency departments, highlighting how clinician-informed model development can improve emergency care documentation workflows.
April 1, 2025
2025 Schulich Engineering Capstone Fair
Alexander Burn and Samuel Wang developed the first prototype of EDSim and presented it at the 2025 Schulich Engineering Capstone Fair. Their capstone work established the initial foundation of the project and showed how an agent-based emergency department simulator could be used to explore workflow challenges in a realistic and engaging way. The presentation was received strongly, and the project was later recognized with a bronze award.