A Special Event at the Onassis Hospital
Onassis Hospital × Dyania Health, in partnership with Endeavor Greece, cordially invite you to a special event at the Onassis, marking the visit to Athens of
- Dr. Lars G. Svensson, Chief of Cleveland Clinic's Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute and a member of Dyania Health's Board of Directors, as well as
- Cedric Steenbeke, NVIDIA's Global Lead for Digital Health Product Development Relations and leader of Healthcare and Life Sciences Startup Ecosystem.
Two hours bringing together distinguished members of Greece's clinical, academic, public health and diplomatic community around a single question: what is AI actually doing at the bedside today, and what has to be true for it to do more.
This event is the continuation of the Docathon held over the preceding days, 15–17 September at Muse Urban Venue. The two/three finalist teams are invited, the winning team presents its work here, and the awards are given.
BRIEF WELCOME REMARKS (pending confirmation)
Kimberly Guilfoyle — U.S. Ambassador to Greece
Ioannis Boletis — President, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center. Welcomes guests on behalf of the host institution.
PRESENTATION OF DYANIA HEALTH
An introduction to Dyania Health and to Synapsis AI, the clinical reasoning engine that reads the unstructured patient record the way a physician does.
Eirini Schlosser — Founder & CEO, Dyania Health
PANEL 1 — CARDIO-METABOLIC DISEASE & OBESITY
Where much of tomorrow's cardiovascular, renal and metabolic burden is being created today: identifying at-risk patients, what the evidence supports, and what changes in practice once the full medical history is taken into account.
Alexandros Nousias (moderator) — Managing Director, Envolve Entrepreneurship
Anna Trepekli, MD, MBA — Physician and co-founder of Hey Nouri, an AI-enabled virtual pediatric obesity clinic scaling insurance-covered care in the US; previously Boston Consulting Group; Harvard Business School, MBA
Chase Wehrle, MD — general surgery, liver transplant and HPB surgery; Digestive Disease AI Center of Excellence, Cleveland Clinic
PANEL 2 — AI IN HEALTHCARE
From national digital-health infrastructure and sovereign compute through to clinical deployment: what has to be true for AI to reach patients at scale — a bridge from the US to Greece and across Europe.
Panagiotis Karampinis (moderator) — Managing Director, Endeavor Greece
Adonis Georgiadis — Minister of Health, Hellenic Republic
Eirini Schlosser — Founder & CEO, Dyania Health
Cedric Steenbeke — NVIDIA's Global Lead for Digital Health Product Development Relations and leader of Healthcare and Life Sciences Startup Ecosystem
Afrodite Sevasti, PhD — CEO, PHAROS AI Factory (Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Factory)
FIRESIDE CHAT — CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY CARE GAPS: AI & IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE
Case studies from Cleveland Clinic on using AI to identify patients who could benefit from or need cardiovascular surgery at the right time in their care journey, for optimal outcomes.
Dr. Dimitrios Avgerinos (moderator) — Cardiac and aortic surgeon; Deputy Director, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center; New York Presbyterian – Weill Cornell Medicine
Dr. Lars G. Svensson, MD, PhD — Chief, Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic; Director of the Marfan Syndrome and Connective Tissue Disorder Clinic; member of Dyania Health's Board of Directors
🏆 DOCATHON AWARDS PRESENTATION
The winning physician–engineer teams present the solutions they built over the three days, the head-to-head results against Synapsis AI are revealed, and the prizes are given — iPads for the winning team and gift cards for the runners-up.
📅 Friday, 18 September 2026 · 12:00 – 14:00
📍 Onassis Hospital — Papadimitriou Room, 7th floor · Syggrou Avenue 356, Athens
🤝 In partnership with Endeavor Greece
✉️ By invitation only. Kindly register below to confirm your attendance.