Maia Hightower
Maia Hightower, MD, MPH, MBA is CEO & Founder of Veritas Healthcare Insights, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in healthcare AI governance, digital transformation, and regulatory compliance. A physician-executive and scholar, she previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Technology Officer at University of Chicago Medicine, where she led enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives for the $4B academic health system.
Her academic leadership spans multiple prestigious institutions, including Chief Medical Information Officer roles at University of Utah Health and University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics. Her research and publications focus on algorithmic fairness and responsible AI, including recent co-authored works in JAMA, NEJM AI and Health Affairs.
As founder and CEO of Equality AI, she developed pioneering frameworks for AI quality assurance in healthcare, influencing federal and international healthcare policy at NCQA, AHRQ, NIH, ONC, CMS, and WHO. With over fifteen years of executive leadership in healthcare IT, medical affairs, and population health, Dr. Hightower brings unique insights from academic medicine, clinically integrated networks, and healthcare technology innovation.
Dr. Hightower received her BA from Cornell University, MD and MPH from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, completed residencies in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego, and earned her MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.
