Spotlight Gesundheit – Faculty Lecture No. 7 with PD Dr. sc. ETH Nadine Bienefeld
PD Dr. sc. ETH Nadine Bienefeld, an expert in human factors and safety science and Associate Lecturer at ETH Zurich, will deliver the seventh Faculty Lecture on the topic "AI in Medicine: How to Ensure Safe and Effective Care through Human-AI Teaming".
| Date: | 15 December 2025 |
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| Time: | 17.00 h to 18.15 h |
| Location: | Lecture Hall 10, University of Lucerne, Frohburgstrasse 3, 6002 Luzern |
We are delighted to welcome PD Dr. sc. ETH Nadine Bienefeld to the University of Lucerne. As an expert in human factors and safety science, she focuses on the safe integration of new technologies into high-risk environments. Her work builds on more than 15 years of experience, including roles as Manager of Human Factors & Systems at Swiss International Airlines and Visiting Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center. In addition to her position as Associate Lecturer at ETH Zurich, she leads translational projects that bring AI into clinical practice, such as the successful validation of an AI-based decision support system in the neurosurgical intensive care unit at University Hospital Zurich.
The title of her lecture is:
AI in Medicine: How to Ensure Safe and Effective Care through Human-AI Teaming
AI has the potential to revolutionize medicine. But the critical question isn’t just about technology— it’s about human-AI collaboration: How do we, as clinicians, healthcare professionals, and patients, best partner with these new systems?
Dr. Nadine Bienefeld invites us to examine the deeply human challenges: How does AI alter human interaction and decision-making? And crucially, how can we maintain expert judgment and calibrate trust in automated systems?
Sharing her latest research, Dr. Bienefeld presents a framework for calibrating trust in human-AI teams and will provide us with an outlook for where the future of AI in healthcare could go. From diagnostics, process automation, to AI in surgery, the goal is clear: building human-AI teams based on human strengths and values, for safer, value-based care.
Following the keynote, Prof. Dr. med. Balthasar Hug, Chief Chief Physician of Internal Medicine at LUKS, and Dr. Bienefeld will engage in a Fire Side Chat to further discuss the outlook of AI applications in clinical practice.
After the lecture, participants are invited to join us for drinks and snacks.
The lecture will be held in English, is open to the public, and free of charge. Please register by 8 December 2025.
