Dr. Schinasi serves as the physician bridge between technology and clinical care at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, leading digital health strategy with a passion for evolving pediatric care delivery models. Her path to informatics leadership began when she recognized telemedicine’s potential to improve communication with patients and among medical staff, leading her to work on a pilot program with Northwestern Kellogg School of Management students exploring whether telemedicine could serve pediatric patients at outside facilities in lieu of transferring to the Lurie Children’s emergency department. That experience set her on a course of leaning into technology’s potential to streamline care, improve clinician and patient experience, and impact outcomes. Dr. Schinasi has since applied her informatics expertise to complex, real-world challenges, including leading Lurie Children’s through an unanticipated prolonged technological downtime, drawing on her training to bring people together and navigate the organization through the disruption.
