2nd Edition of the Public Health and Midwifery World Conference 2026

Biography

Dr. Irina Koyfman is a Nurse Practitioner, Doctor of Nursing Practice, and healthcare innovator with more than 25 years of clinical and executive experience. She comes to the midwifery community as a fellow nurse, grounded in the same patient-first values that anchor maternal and community health, and focused on one urgent question: how do we prepare the nursing and midwifery workforce to lead the AI tools entering everyday practice, rather than be led by them?

Dr. Koyfman is the founder of Affinity Expert, a healthcare consulting firm specializing in chronic care management, remote patient monitoring, and AI transformation. She is the founder of the #NursesforAI movement, which advocates for nurses and midwives to be decision-makers in how AI is developed and deployed, not just end users. She holds board certification in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (ABAIM).

She is the co-author of AI Competency Domains for Nurses: A Framework for Education, Practice, and Leadership, the framework underlying today's keynote, and author of The Sandwich Generation Handbook and AI Health Companion. Her work has been featured in The American Journal of Managed Care, the Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Home Healthcare Now, and The Maryland Nurse Journal.