Title: Unlocking the Promise of Deployed Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare Quality and Safety

Abstract: In this forward-looking session, Dr. Peter Najjar, Vice President of Clinical Innovation at Johns Hopkins Health System, explores how data fusion and artificial intelligence are transforming quality and safety operations. He’ll share a practical blueprint for integrating AI into clinical workflows – balancing ambition with alignment, and innovation with rigor. Drawing from the Armstrong Institute’s work on ambient intelligence, event reporting, and machine-assisted data abstraction, this talk reveals how AI can accelerate the future of healthcare quality and safety.

Bio: Peter A. Najjar, MD, MBA is Vice President of Clinical Innovation for Johns Hopkins Health System and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He leads system-wide efforts to advance care delivery through novel clinical systems, data infrastructure, and technology innovation based out of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. He co-directs the JHM Health Systems Management Fellowship for budding physician-executives and serves on several hospital and digital health startup boards. Clinically, he practices complex and robotic colorectal surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Najjar attended the University of California, Davis before earning his M.D. from the University of Chicago and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He completed general surgery residency and fellowships in both colorectal surgery and patient safety and quality at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.

Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/97389251444?pwd=rve9qr6swKc8wr3x2vSd13jv2eaUfM.1
Meeting ID: 973 8925 1444
Passcode: 756160