See below for more information about our speakers. 

Gary L. Beck Dallaghan, Ph.D., is the assistant dean for accreditation at Carle Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  He heads up the accreditation and educational quality improvement initiatives for the college.    

Dr. Beck Dallaghan has nearly three decades of experience in medical education. For over 20 years, he was at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, completing a masters in mathematics and doctorate in educational psychology.  He served as their assistant dean for medical education for five years.  In 2018, he joined the University of North Carolina School of Medicine as director of educational scholarship. During that time he published nearly 80 peer-review articles with a variety of collaborators.  

Nationally, he is actively involved in several medical education organizations, including the Alliance for Clinical Education, Association of American Medical Colleges, and Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics.  It is his work with the Alliance for Clinical Education that provided him an opportunity to become known as an influencer on social media.  For over 7 years he has run the Twitter chat, MedEdChat.  Because of the work with the chats, he has studied the impact of this powerful social media tool. 

Benjamin Collins is a hospitalist and postdoctoral research fellow in ethics, legal, and social issues of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare at Vanderbilt University Medical Center with the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society. 

He completed medical school at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, VA and internal medicine residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. During residency, he also earned an MA degree in Urban Bioethics from Temple with a thesis on, “A Theory of Sociotechnical Justice in Healthcare.” He then completed a clinical informatics fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University along with an MS degree in biomedical informatics, finishing a capstone project by developing an online training module for clinicians on algorithmic bias in healthcare for which he received the 2022 American Medical Informatics Association Academic Forum Best Paper Award. 

He is interested in the use of AI for clinical decision support, working to ensure that AI does not contribute to health disparities through qualitative research, community engagement, and improving clinician education and training on the use of AI. He is also invested in studying how the use of AI influences clinical reasoning and in medical education more broadly.