Lindenauer Lecture

The Marilyn R. Lindenauer Distinguished Speaker Series at Columbia University Irving Medical Center was established by Dr. S. Martin and Ms. Marilyn R. Lindenauer in 2013. The Speaker Series provides an opportunity for the Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center to host lectures by medical professionals from around the world to discuss groundbreaking new ideas and emerging technologies related to the care of cerebral palsy patients. The lectureship is also an important component in helping to educate the broader medical community and foster greater awareness of the needs of cerebral palsy patients. We are grateful to the Lindenauer family and their friends for supporting our education mission.

Lindenauer Lecture 2026

Join us at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center on Saturday, October 24th, 2026, 1pm, for the 13th Marilyn R. Lindenauer Distinguished Speaker Series. We will host Konrad Kording, PhD, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, University of Pennsylvania, who will speak on the topic, "What Can AI Do For People With Cerebral Palsy?"

What happens when artificial intelligence stops being just a tool and starts acting like a thought partner, shaping how we reason, discover, and practice medicine?

In this year’s Lindenauer Lecture, Dr. Konrad Kording will break down the essentials of modern AI and share practical ways to use it to probe ideas, surface blind spots, and speed up innovation. He’ll then look ahead to the future of diagnosis, drawing on his work using video-based AI to detect movement patterns linked to cerebral palsy. From the mechanics of how AI works to the real-world ways it may reshape diagnosis in cerebral palsy and beyond, this talk will explore both the promise, and the hard questions, these technologies raise for medicine. A discussion and Q&A with Dr. Kording will follow.

The Lindenauer Lecture 2026 is especially meaningful this year as it’s part of Creating Connections: Lifespan Care, our full day education event with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation. This is a special opportunity to learn alongside and exchange ideas with educators and the community. The Lindenauer Lecture is free to attend and includes lunch.

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