Policy Seminar with Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS
Healthcare AI in an Evolving Regulatory Environment
Open to Penn affiliates
The healthcare landscape is changing rapidly with next-generation large language models enabling AI-based decision support on top of pandemic-accelerated digital health trends like virtual care and remote patient monitoring. In this presentation, Dr. Chris Longhurst, Chief Clinical & Innovation Officer at UC San Diego Health, will share how these tools can support the journey to a highly reliable learning health system within an evolving regulatory environment.
Co-sponsored with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Supported by the Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Lecture Fund.
Speaker
Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS
Chief Clinical and Innovation Officer and Executive Director, Jacobs Center for Health Innovation, University of California San Diego Health
Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS, is the Chief Clinical and Innovation Officer at UC San Diego Health, where he oversees clinical operations, digital strategy, and advanced technologies to enhance patient care and outcomes. He also serves as Executive Director of the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Center for Health Innovation, driving initiatives in artificial intelligence, health equity, and personalized treatment through data integration and transformative technologies. As Associate Dean at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and a faculty member in Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics, Dr. Longhurst maintains an active clinical practice as a newborn hospitalist while advancing scholarship in patient safety and health informatics. Previously, he held leadership roles at Stanford Children’s Health, including founding the nation’s first accredited clinical informatics fellowship. A board-certified pediatrician and clinical informaticist, Dr. Longhurst earned his medical degree and MS in Medical Informatics from UC Davis and completed his residency at Stanford University.