Hojjat Salmasian, MD, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Vice President and Chief Data and Analytics Officer , Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Fellow, Clinical Futures Center of Emphasis, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 617-732-8678
Email:
salmasianh@chop.edu
salmasianh@chop.edu
Education:
MD (General Medicine and Primary Care)
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2009.
MPH (Public Health)
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2009.
PhD (Biomedical Informatics)
Columbia University, 2015.
Permanent linkMD (General Medicine and Primary Care)
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2009.
MPH (Public Health)
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2009.
PhD (Biomedical Informatics)
Columbia University, 2015.
Selected Publications
Richter F, Holmes E, Richter F, Guttmann K, Duong SQ, Gangadharan S, Schadt EE, Salmasian H, Gelb BD, Glicksberg BS: Toward governance of artificial intelligence in pediatric healthcare. NPJ Digit Med 8(1): 636, Oct 2025.Chen SW, Gannon M, Kilgallon JL, Chay WI, Rubins D, Salmasian H, Dutta S, McEvoy DS, Wu E, Wright A, McCoy A, Samal L: Applying an empirical taxonomy to alert malfunctions in a pragmatic trial for hypertension management in chronic kidney disease. Appl Clin Inform 16(5): 1457-1464, Oct 2025.
Richter F, Holmes E, Richter F, Guttmann K, Duong SQ, Gangadharan S, Schadt EE, Salmasian H, Gelb BD, Glicksberg BS: Toward governance of artificial intelligence in pediatric healthcare. NPJ Digit Med 8(1): 636, Oct 2025.
Salmasian H, Van Wilder A, Frits M, Iannaccone C, Logan M, Zebrowski JP, Shahian D, Rein M, Levine D, Bates DW: Patient Safety Metrics Monitoring Across Harvard-Affiliated Hospitals: A Mixed Methods Study. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 51(9): 558-565, Sep 2025.
Oliver A, Tariq AA, Riley J, Salmasian H: Optimizing the migration of a data warehouse to the cloud using network analysis. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 22(2): 894-899, May 2025.
Samal L, Chen SW, Lipsitz S, Baer HJ, Kilgallon JL, Gannon MP, Dunk R, Chay WI, Fay R, Sainlainre M, Gao C, Wien M, Garabedian P, Wu E, Salmasian H, Bates DW, Dykes P, Wright A, McCoy AB: User actions within a clinical decision support alert for the management of hypertension in chronic kidney disease. Appl Clin Inform 16(3): 595-603, May 2025.
Salmasian H, Erdei C, Applebaum JR, Sharon D, Hannon K, Cuddyer D, Sawyer M, Steele T, Sheldon Y, Lehman IS, Schwartz JE, Chen A, Adelman JS: Acceptability of pictographs as a novel patient identifier to improve patient safety in the neonatal intensive care unit. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 22(1): 980-986, May 2025.
Sittig DF, Flanagan T, Sengstack P, Heidemann A, Murphy DR, Salmasian H, Adelman JS, Singh H: Revisions to the Safety Assurance Factors for Electronic Health Record Resilience (SAFER) Guides to Update National Recommendations for Safe Use of EHRs. J AM Med Inform Assoc 32(4): 755-760, April 2025.
Ghassemi M, Ratwani R, Makhni S, Miller G, Shing HC, Zanjirani Farahani N, Handley J, Gerrard P, Petrus A, Salmasian H, Sheller M, Rodrigues Y, St. Clair J, Bommarito K, Gebauer S, Boussina A, La Cava W: Sepsis Risk Prediction. Coalition for Health AI March 2025 Notes: https://rai-content.chai.org/en/latest/sepsis-risk-prediction/introduction.html.
Ghassemi M, Ratwani R, Makhni S, Miller G, Shing HC, Zanjirani Farahani N, Handley J, Gerrard P, Petrus A, Salmasian H, Sheller M, Rodrigues Y, St. Clair J, Bommarito K, Gebauer S, Boussina A, La Cava W: CHAI Responsible AI Content Coalition for Health AI March 2025 Notes: https://rai-content.chai.org/en/latest/