Presenter

Shauna Overgaard, Ph.D., works to advance the safe, effective, and equitable integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into clinical practice through the development of enterprise frameworks for evaluation, implementation, and oversight. Her efforts center on aligning innovation with regulatory science, implementation science, and clinical usability to ensure AI technologies meet the highest standards of patient care and accelerate innovation to practice.
She serves as Co-Chair of the National Academy of Medicine’s AI Code of Conduct Working Group for Health Systems and Payers and the Coalition for Health AI’s Transparency Working Group, where she leads national efforts to translate ethical and governance principles into operational guidance. Within the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), she co-chairs the AI Evaluation Showcase and is a member of the Public Policy Committee and Industry Partnership Council.
Dr. Overgaard is Senior Director of AI Strategy & Frameworks at Mayo Clinic and Co-Director of the AI Validation & Stewardship Program. Her scholarly work focuses on translational AI governance, clinical assurance, and equitable adoption. She serves on the Editorial Board of npj Health Systems, and special topics guest editor for the BMJ Health and Health and Care Informatics and Mayo Clinic Proceedings Digital Health. Dr. Overgaard is recognized as a Rising Star in
Modern Healthcare’s 2025 Leading Women in Healthcare.
Before her work in AI translation, she was involved in clinical research focused on the development of diagnostic tests leveraging principles of graph theory and multimodal data in the realm of neuroimaging, proteomic, and genomic data. She continues to maintain a responsibility to help facilitate national consensus-building efforts related to medical informatics and health AI.