Hojjat Salmasian
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Hojjat Salmasian, MD, MPH, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA is Vice President and Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University of Pennsylvania. He is a Primary Care Physician by background, an elected Fellow of both the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI). He oversees the data and analytics strategy at CHOP and supervises the teams that lead data and analytics services, data platforms, data governance, and advanced analytics and data science. He also co-chairs the AI Governance Committee and co-leads Enterprise AI Strategy for CHOP. Dr. Salmasian’s research focuses on healthcare quality and patient safety, and the role of health IT and artificial intelligence in those. He has coauthored more than 140 scientific publications.
