13C. ASRH Invited Speaker Session: Clinical management: AI in Sexual Health
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| Wednesday, September 16, 2026 |
| 3:50 PM - 5:20 PM |
| Lake Room |
Details
Learning objectives:
- describe emerging applications of AI in sexual health, genomics and outbreak forecasting
- discuss opportunities - and limitations - of AI integration in clinical sexual health
- explore how AI influences consultation work flow and service delivery
Speaker
Dr Tanya Applegate
Associate Professor, Diagnostics Innovation Group Lead.
The Kirby Institute
Using AI in Clinical Genomics - Adapting Tools to Understand and Track Bacterial Resistance
3:50 PM - 4:05 PMBiography
Associate Professor Applegate is a diagnostic researcher, lead of the Diagnostics Innovation Group and co-lead of RAPID 2.0, a Centre for Research Excellence for the scale up of point-of-care testing for infectious diseases at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. Tanya has over 25 years of experience in regulatory, hospital, industry, laboratory and academic environments, and her research focuses on equitable access to quality, simplified infectious disease diagnostics for people who are marginalised or living in remote or resource limited settings.
Professor Eric Chow
Professor
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
Overview of integrating AI in sexual health care
4:05 PM - 4:20 PMBiography
Professor Eric Chow is a sexual health epidemiologist at Monash University and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. His research program aims to improve the treatment, prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections (STI), with a particular focus on gonorrhoea and human papillomavirus.
Ms Cherie Bennett
Nursing Policy and Advocacy Lead
ASHM
AI integration into routine consultations and the way clinicians use it to support and increase person-centred care
4:20 PM - 4:35 PMBiography
Dr Ryan Horn
Advanced Trainee - Sexual Health Medicine
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Bayside Health
Consumers’ acceptability of using artificial intelligence in sexual and reproductive health care services: a cross-sectional study in Melbourne, Australia
4:35 PM - 4:47 PMBiography
Ryan is a Sexual Health Medicine Advanced Trainee working in Naarm at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. He is an HIV and Hepatitis B s100 prescriber with a keen interest in all things sexual health, HIV, research and education.
ASRH Conference
13C. Panel Discussion
4:47 PM - 5:20 PMBiography
Session Chair
Phyu Mon Latt
Research Fellow
Monash University
Arthur Wong
Staff Specialist Sexual Health
Sydney Sexual Health Centre
