Harvey Castro, MD, MBA, known as DR GPT, healthcare AI keynote speaker and executive retreat leader

Healthcare AI Executive Retreats With Harvey Castro MD, DR GPT™

Move your leadership team from pilot fatigue to responsible AI adoption

I help boards, C-suite leaders, hospital executives, pharma teams, and medtech leaders decide what AI should do, what it should never do, and how to move from pilot fatigue to responsible adoption. I am Harvey Castro, MD, MBA, an emergency physician, TEDx speaker, author, and healthcare AI keynote speaker known as DR GPT™. I still work in clinical care, so I judge AI by a simple standard: does it hold up where care actually happens?

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Most healthcare AI strategies fail after the demo

In a survey of 182 hospital leaders conducted in late 2025, only 29 percent had implemented and enforced policies covering AI model inventory, lineage, and sign-offs. Only 22 percent were highly confident they could produce a complete AI audit trail within 30 days if a regulator or payer asked (Becker's Hospital Review).

Meanwhile the oversight environment is firming up on a published schedule. The Joint Commission launched a voluntary Responsible Use of AI in Healthcare certification on June 2, 2026, and state statutes governing AI in clinical and payment decisions are taking effect through January 2027.

Your leadership team does not need a technology briefing. It needs to decide which AI use cases are worth pursuing now, which ones create clinical, legal, reputational, or workflow risk, who owns governance and escalation, and what success looks like beyond a pilot.

Retreat formats

Executive strategy session

Best for C-suite teams, innovation leaders, and clinical executives. Ninety minutes to two hours on AI priorities, clinical risk, governance, and workflow fit.

Half-day leadership retreat

Best for hospital executives, pharma teams, medtech leadership, and board committees. Three to four hours: keynote framing, leadership discussion, an AI opportunity map, a risk review, and next-step planning.

Full-day board and executive retreat

Best for health systems and organizations making major AI investments. Six to seven hours across AI strategy, governance model, use-case triage, clinical workflow, executive alignment, adoption barriers, and an action plan. Delivered in English or Spanish.

Signature retreat themes

From pilot fatigue to physician-led adoption. What every hospital CEO should know before buying AI. AI governance for boards and executive teams. AI plus human judgment in medicine. Healthspan, predictive medicine, and the next healthcare model.

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What makes this different from a consulting deck

I still practice. I am a board-certified emergency physician. The failure modes I describe are ones I have worked through on a shift, not read about in a case study.

I cite the evidence on the record. Journal, author, year. When I tell a board that a widely deployed sepsis model showed an area under the curve of 0.63 and missed 67 percent of cases in external validation, that is Wong A, Otles E, Donnelly JP, et al., JAMA Internal Medicine, 2021, per PubMed (DOI). You can check me.

I have sat on the regulatory side. I serve on Singapore's Ministry of Health Regulatory Advisory Panel and advise the Texas Medical Association's Committee on Health Information Technology, which represents more than 55,000 Texas physicians.

I have built systems, not only critiqued them. I serve as Chief AI Officer at Phantom Space, where the tolerance for unvalidated systems is even lower than in medicine.

I will tell you when the answer is no. Including when the answer is that you do not need me.

Background

Board-certified emergency physician, practicing
5x TEDx speaker
Author of more than 30 books on AI and healthcare, including AI in Emergency Medicine (Wiley) and AI and Healthcare, 2nd Edition (Routledge)
Member, Singapore Ministry of Health Regulatory Advisory Panel, 2024 to 2026
AI expert consultant, Texas Medical Association Committee on Health Information Technology
Assistant Professor, UTSA and UT Health Medicine and AI dual-degree program
Chief AI Officer, Phantom Space Corporation
Editorial boards: AI in Precision Oncology (Mary Ann Liebert), The American Journal of Healthcare Strategy
Keynotes at HIMSS Europe and HIMSS AI, with international engagements across China, Australia, and Germany
D Magazine ER Doctor of the Year, 2014 to 2022
Native and bilingual Spanish speaker

How an engagement usually starts

One call. Twenty to thirty minutes. You describe the situation, I tell you whether I am the right person for it.

A scoped proposal. What I would do, over what period, and what you would have at the end.

The work. Board session, retreat, review, or advisory engagement.

If a keynote is a better fit than advisory, or advisory better than a keynote, I will say so on the first call.

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Frequently asked questions

Who should attend a healthcare AI executive retreat? Boards, CEOs, CMOs, CIOs, chief digital officers, innovation teams, clinical leaders, pharma executives, medtech leaders, and healthcare AI teams that need alignment before scaling AI.

What makes a retreat different from a keynote? A keynote creates shared understanding. A retreat goes deeper. It gives leaders space to examine current AI plans, identify risks, align on governance, and decide what to do next.

Can the retreat be customized for pharma, medtech, or payers? Yes. The core framework is physician-led AI adoption, and it adapts for pharma, medtech, diagnostics, payers, public health, or health system leadership.

Is this available internationally? Yes. I am based in Dallas, Texas and speak worldwide. Sessions are available in English and Spanish.

Can you speak in Spanish? Yes. I am a native Spanish speaker and present regularly for Latin American and bilingual audiences.

Do you work with vendors and health technology companies? Yes, on clinical validity, provider-facing positioning, and advisory roles. I do not endorse products in keynotes, and I disclose any relevant relationship before speaking to a provider audience.

What is the fee? It depends on format, travel, and scope. Tell me the date and the ask and I will give you a number on the first call.

How far in advance should we book? Keynote dates are typically set six to twelve months out. Board and advisory work can often start within weeks.

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