Alistair Erskine

Alistair Erskine, MD is Chief Digital Health Officer for Mass General Brigham. Prior to Mass General Brigham, Dr. Erskine served as Chief Informatics Officer at the Geisinger Health System. Dr. Erskine led the Division of Informatics which engaged staff in the design and configuration of Geisinger’s clinical information systems and evolved Geisinger’s facilities to take advantage of ultramodern technologies. Prior to Geisinger, Dr. Erskine was Associate Dean of Medical Informatics at Virginia Commonwealth University and was member of the Board for the 650-physician Medical College of Physician practice plan. He was appointed to the Virginia Governor’s Health Information Technology Commission by Executive Order and was a voting member of the Health Information Technology Standards Committee. Dr. Erskine presents and publishes on the topic of clinical transformation in peer-reviewed literature. Dr. Erskine trained at Brown University and Virginia Commonwealth University Health System and is triple Board-Certified in Internal Medicine, Clinical Informatics and Pediatrics. He has been practicing hospital medicine for 15 years. He is currently engaged in a two-year program with MIT Sloan School of Management, with a specialization in Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. He earned his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, with a specialization in Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.