Dr. Schwamm brings a combination of clinical expertise, research distinction and digital transformation leadership to Yale New Haven Health, where he is charged with unifying siloed virtual care and digital enablement efforts into a single robust program spanning AI governance, virtual care model redesign, digital patient experience and physician wellness. Since his arrival, he has transformed a traditional IT hierarchy into an experience-led portfolio organized around the employee, care team, researcher/analyst and patient digital experience domains. His work is supported by three foundational layers, and he leads a team of nearly 700 digital employees alongside his dyad CIO/CISO partner. Dr. Schwamm pioneered the use of telehealth-enabled acute stroke care nationally, and during the first six months of Covid at Boston-based Mass General Brigham, he led adoption efforts for 10,000 clinicians to provide over 1.7 million virtual visits, all while introducing a suite of innovative inpatient virtual solutions. He co-founded the digitally-enabled American Heart Association “Get With the Guidelines-Stroke” clinical registry, which has now transformed stroke care across more than 2,500 U.S. hospitals and over 8 million patient encounters. At Yale New Haven Health, he is architecting a reimagined digital front door that infuses generative AI and automation into the full patient experience, and is implementing ambient clinical documentation for routine clinical use while building the governance, policy and educational frameworks for responsible AI adoption systemwide. Dr. Schwamm serves as chair of the AI Task Force for the American Heart Association, digital health section editor for Stroke, and international advisory board member for Lancet Digital Health.
