Dr. Mark Schweitzer is special associate to the president for public health planning at Wayne State University. He received his bachelor of science from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at the City University of New York. He received his medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at Nassau County Medical Center (now Nassau University Medical Center), where he served as associate chief resident. He has served on numerous expert advisory panels, including study sections for the National Institutes of Health and on Food and Drug Administration panels. He has received numerous teaching, mentoring, and research awards. Certified by the American Board of Radiology, he has served as the presiding officer of the Radiological Society of North America and the International Skeletal Society. He has also consulted for numerous college teams and for the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in British Columbia.
Dr. Pegah Khosravi is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Biomedical AI at both CUNY Graduate Center and New York City College of Technology (City Tech). She earned her Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB), University of Tehran.
Her postdoctoral research at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) in Tehran laid the foundation for her
expertise in machine learning, followed by a postdoctoral associate role at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. She then served as a Senior Computational Biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, focusing on AI-driven medical image analysis.
Dr. Khosravi specializes in developing advanced AI-based frameworks with a focus on ensemble learning, multimodal models, and explainable AI.
