Dr. Pandita leads UCI Health’s vision for leveraging generative and cognitive AI to augment the work of physicians, decrease burden and burnout, and shape a hospital of the future that integrates technology seamlessly for everyone in healthcare. She started the first clinical informatics fellowship in the state of Minnesota and was the first female program director of a clinical informatics fellowship in the country. At UCI Health, she was key in implementing AI to assist clinicians in responding to patient messages and led implementation of ambient listening tools that enable clinicians to focus more deeply on patients, particularly those with chronic disease or severe illness. Dr. Pandita set up UCI Health’s first-ever AI governance framework and has been a nationally recognized leader in bridging digital disparities, publishing opinion pieces and speaking at national meetings on ensuring digital solutions reach underserved and marginalized populations. She serves on the American Medical Informatics Association board, co-authored a recent American College of Physicians position paper on AI in healthcare and has previously chaired both the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society physician informatics committee and the American College of Physicians medical informatics committee.
