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Patient Safety in the Era of AI Steering Group

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Co-Chairs

CEO
Mayo Clinic
Wright Lassiter, MHA
Chief Executive Officer
CommonSpirit Health
President and Chief Executive Officer
Patients for Patient Safety U.S

Steering Group

Shantanu Agrawal, MD, MPhil
Chief Health Officer
Elevance Health

Shantanu Agrawal is the Chief Health Officer of Anthem, Inc. Dr. Agrawal oversees Anthem’s enterprise health strategy, to include medical policy and clinical quality, as well as the company’s industry-leading work to address the social drivers of health. He will also lead Anthem’s community health strategy and the Anthem Foundation.

Dr. Agrawal most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Quality Forum (NQF), a non-profit organization dedicated to working with members of the healthcare community to drive measurable health improvements. He is also the former Deputy Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), where he led an effort to improve the physician experience with Medicare and was also was one of the main architects of CMS’s strategy to address the national opioid epidemic. Dr. Agrawal also served as Director of the Center for Program Integrity (CPI), where he was instrumental in launching new initiatives in data transparency and analytics, utilization management and payment models.

Dr. Agrawal serves on the board of the Grameen Foundation and the Presidential Advisory Council of Brown University’s School of Public Health. He is also Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine.

Dr. Agrawal completed his undergraduate education at Brown University, medical education at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, and clinical training in Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his master’s degree in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University.

Leah Binder, MA, MGA
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Leapfrog Group
Jeffrey Braithwaite, PhD, MBA, FIML, FACHSM, FAHMS, FFPHRCP
Founding Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Macquarie University
President Emeritus and Senior Fellow
Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Donald M. Berwick is one of the leading scholars, teachers, and advocates in the world for the continual improvement of health care systems. He is a pediatrician, and a longstanding member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School. He founded and led the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, now the leading global nonprofit organization in its field. He was appointed by President Obama as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he served in 2010 and 2011. He has counseled governments, clinical leaders, and executives in dozens of nations. He is an elected Member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Philosophical Society. He has received numerous awards, including the Heinz Award for Public Policy, the Award of Honor of the American Hospital Association, and the Gustav Leinhard Award from the Institute of Medicine. For his work with the British National Health Service, in 2005 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II appointed him Honourary Knight Commander of the British Empire, the highest honor awarded by the UK to a non-British subject.

COI: none noted

Carolyn Clancy, MD, MACP
Assistant Under Secretary for Health
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
David Classen, MD, MS
Director, Health IT Safety Program
Pascal Metrics/University of Utah
Founder
Enlightening Results
Chief Scientific Officer
Microsoft

Eric Horvitz, MD, PhD, serves as Microsoft’s Chief Scientific Officer, guiding strategic scientific initiatives companywide. He serves on the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director working group on AI and previously served on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), co-leading studies in healthcare and biosciences. Dr. Horvitz has also served as President of the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI), Commissioner on the National Security Commission on AI, and on the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine. His research spans machine learning, reasoning, and human-AI interaction. For decades, he has advanced AI applications in healthcare settings. Dr. Horvitz’ foundational contributions include probabilistic and decision-theoretic reasoning, bounded rationality, and human-AI complementarity. His honors include the Feigenbaum Prize and Allen Newell Prize for his contributions in AI, induction into the CHI Academy for advances in human-AI collaboration, election as a member of the National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Philosophical Society, and as a fellow of AAAI, Association for Computing Machinery, Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American College of Medical Informatics. He co-founded the Partnership on AI and initiated Stanford’s One Hundred Year Study on AI. At Microsoft, he established the Aether Committee, advising on AI safety, trustworthiness, and ethics, and co-founded the Office of Responsible AI, overseeing policies and compliance across company products and services.

Timothy Hsu, MHSA
Vice President of Industry & Emerging Technologies
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)
Michael Howell, MD, MPH
Chief Health Officer
Google
Chief Executive Officer
Seattle Children's

Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS, FAAP, FACMI, is an internationally recognized scholar, educator, and administrative leader in the fields of quality, patient safety, and clinical informatics, especially healthcare AI. He currently serves as the Chief Clinical & Innovation Officer at UC San Diego Health, where he provides leadership to medical staff, ensuring that standards and protocols are in place to provide the highest quality of care to patients, and positions digital transformation as a key tool in these efforts. As the executive Director for the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Center for Health Innovation, Dr. Longhurst also has responsibility for the artificial intelligence (AI) portfolio across the health system. Within the UC San Diego School of Medicine, he serves as an associate dean to help align education and research missions within the clinical environment and lead the journey to become a highly reliable, learning health system. As a faculty member in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics, Dr. Longhurst also maintains an active clinical practice as a newborn hospitalist and speaks nationally and internationally about his innovations in the field.

Shantanu Nundy, MD
Adjunct Professor
Johns Hopkins University/FDA Advisor
President
The Joint Commission
Carla Peron, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer
Royal Philips
John C. Malone Endowed Chair & Director of the Machine Learning, AI and Healthcare Lab, Founder and CEO
Johns Hopkins University, Bayesian Health

Suchi Saria, PhD, holds a John C. Malone endowed chair and is the Director of AI and health lab at Johns Hopkins where she is jointly appointed as faculty in Computer Science, Medicine and Health Policy. She is also the founder of Bayesian Health, a clinical AI platform company spun out of Hopkins that augments care teams by bringing together state of the AI/ML technology combined with responsible AI best practices to dramatically improve quality while saving clinicians’ time. Dr. Saria’s work in AI over the last two decades has led to foundational advances in technology, best practices around translation, and AI policy. She has written several seminal papers in AI/ML around issues of learning robust models, detecting drifts, monitoring and learning from messy real-world datasets. Her applied research has built on these technical advances to develop novel next generation diagnostic and treatment planning tools that use AI/ML to individualize care. Her work has been funded by leading organizations including the NSF, DARPA, FDA, NIH and CDC and she regularly serves as a scientific advisor to leading Fortune 500 companies. Dr. Saria completed her PhD in AI at Stanford. In 2024, she received an honorary doctorate from Mount Holyoke. She’s a Sloan Research Fellow, named by IEEE to “AI’s 10 to Watch”. Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Innovators, World Technology Forum’ Technology Pioneer, and her work was recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions in 2023 and 2024. She is on the board of the Coalition of Health AI (CHAI), editorial board of the Journal of Machine Learning Research and serves on the National Academy of Medicine AI Code of Conduct.

Margaret-Mary Wilson, MD, MBA, MRCP, FNMCP
Chief Medical Officer
UnitedHealth Group
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