LOS ANGELES (Feb. 3, 2025) — To support the continued evolution of health informatics and digital technology across Cedars-Sinai Health System, the Enterprise Information Services (EIS) team has announced the appointment of three key leadership roles: chief health informatics officer, chief nursing informatics officer and chief medical informatics officer.
“As we continue to develop, embrace and adopt new digital technologies, we identified new opportunities for growth within our informatics team,” said Craig Kwiatkowski, PharmD, senior vice president and chief information officer at Cedars-Sinai. “These strategic leadership appointments will further strengthen our ability to drive innovation and enhance integration of digital technology across Cedars-Sinai Health System.”
Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO)
Shaun Miller, MD, MBA, has been promoted to serve as Cedars-Sinai’s inaugural chief health informatics officer. In this role, Miller will oversee all clinical informatics and EIS training teams supporting physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers across Cedars-Sinai. He will continue his oversight of the Clinical Informatics Fellowship and collaborate with senior leadership to expand digital technology across the health system.
Miller, previously the chief medical informatics officer at Cedars-Sinai, has led numerous technology initiatives to improve patient outcomes. He played a key role in expanding virtual care models during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, including implementing telehealth solutions in CS-Link and launching CS Connect. Recently, he helped drive the evaluation and expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical settings and introduced AI scribes, augmented response technology and CS-Link-based solutions supporting quality and clinician wellness. He is a member of Cedars-Sinai’s AI Council, leads the AI-Physician Advisory Council and co-chairs the Advanced Physician Leadership Development Program.
Miller earned his medical degree and MBA from the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in internal medicine with a subspecialty certification in clinical informatics, and is a practicing hospitalist with Cedars-Sinai’s Inpatient Specialty Program.
Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO)
Lisa Stephenson, MSN, RN, NI-BC, is Cedars-Sinai’s new chief nursing informatics officer. In this critical role, Stephenson will lead the inpatient and ambulatory clinical operations optimization liaison teams and EIS training teams, support CS-Link and digital innovation projects, and optimize initiatives across Cedars-Sinai for nursing and clinical care support teams.
Stephenson has more than 20 years of nursing experience. She also has a master’s degree in nursing leadership and management from Walden University as well as an American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) certification in nursing informatics. She has worked in numerous clinical settings, including acute care, emergency medicine and home hospice, and has held the roles of quality outcomes coordinator and medical/surgical nurse manager.
Since 2011, Stephenson has worked in nursing informatics leadership including at the Mayo Clinic and Houston Methodist, where she was chief nursing informatics officer. She is actively involved in several professional organizations, including the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Nursing Informatics Committee and the planning committee for the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Forum.
Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO)
Yaron Elad, MD, has been named Cedars-Sinai’s chief medical informatics officer and will lead the physician informatics team.
Elad, a cardiologist with Cedars-Sinai Medical Group, is currently clinical chief of the Department of Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. He was appointed associate chief medical informatics officer in 2022. He is board-certified in clinical informatics and is an Epic-certified physician builder.
Recently, he has focused on clinical applications of artificial intelligence such as ambient AI scribes, augmented in-basket response technology and AI-generated summaries in Epic.
“We are eager to see the many contributions of these three highly talented leaders as we build our clinical informatics and digital technology capacities,” Kwiatkowski said.
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