Digital Innovation Hub

“You can do a lot with a small team.”

Our Team

Adam Landman, MD, MS, MIS, MHS

Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President, Digital, Mass General Brigham
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Adam Landman, MD, MS, MIS, MHS, is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Senior Vice President, Digital, Mass General Brigham. As CIO, Dr. Landman is responsible for maintaining a focus on excellence, meeting the technology and digital capability needs of clinicians, staff, and patients for the integrated health system. He oversees Solutions Delivery, Clinical Informatics, Service Delivery, Training & Communications, and Innovation.

Dr. Landman is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Informatics. He joined BWH in 2010 as director of Clinical Information in the Department of Emergency Medicine, where he led the project to move BWH ED clinicians from paper-based to electronic documentation. He also led the team that built the CliniCam mobile app, a secure and convenient image sharing app for acquiring digital images and storing them in the electronic health record, which was made available for all clinical users in the hospital.

Previously, Dr. Landman served as CIO for the Brigham family, including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization, leading system-wide strategic IT initiatives, with the goal of evolving the next generation of information systems across the Brigham family enterprise. He also served the hospital as the Chief Medical Information Officer for Health Information Innovation & Integration (CMIO), where he oversaw a range of Partners eCare (PeC) responsibilities for the Brigham family, such as the local implementation of the Sunquest laboratory information system and integration with Epic, with a novel positive patient identification specimen collection solution that has reduced laboratory specimen errors for inpatients. He had also been driving efforts at both the local and industry levels to improve the experience of hospital patients and visitors, strengthening the innovation culture at the Brigham through programs like the Innovation Hub, and collaborating with external digital health companies and start-ups.

Dr. Landman received his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMNDJ)-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and trained in Emergency Medicine at UCLA Medical Center. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at Yale University, where he also received his masters of Health Sciences. He completed graduate degrees in Information Systems and Health Care Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

Chen Cao, MPH

Manager, Brigham Digital Innovation Hub

Chen Cao is an experienced professional in digital health innovation and emerging technologies at Mass General Brigham. With over seven years at the integrated academic health system, he has progressed from an analyst to the manager leading the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub. Chen’s passion lies in utilizing digital technology to improve health outcomes, enhance patient experiences, and create a healthier world. His background in public health, including work with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health of Kenya, has given him invaluable perspective and tremendous experience working in low-resource and developing settings.

With both a Master of Public Health and Bachelor of Arts from Boston University, Chen combines his academic knowledge with practical expertise to drive meaningful change. His dedication to leveraging digital innovation in healthcare, along with his comprehensive understanding of global health challenges, positions him as a thought expert in the field. He is committed to improving healthcare systems and his ability to bridge the gap between technology and patient care. Outside of his role at Mass General Brigham, Chen also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Boston University.

 

Gabrielle Choo-Kang

Analyst, Brigham Digital Innovation Hub

Gabrielle Choo-Kang is an Innovation and Operations Analyst at the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub (iHub). She is excited to be a member of the iHub team and work at the intersection of technology, healthcare, and design. Prior to joining the iHub, Gabrielle received a Master of Science in Health Technology and Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her academic interests have led her to conduct biofilm disinfection research, design safe water treatment in rural Ecuador, build concrete canoes, and model accelerometry data to assess frailty in older adults.

 

 

 

Jonathan Letourneau, MDes

Analyst, Brigham Digital Innovation Hub

Jonathan Letourneau is a strategic innovator and problem solver focused on systems design from the perspective of human centered design. He contributes to the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub (iHub) through his interdisciplinary background spanning user experience, business strategy, and visual design. Prior to joining the iHub, Jonathan spent time at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute where he helped lead the patient experience journey mapping project, seeking to improve the quality of life for patients through understanding their lived experience. Jonathan received his master’s degree in Design Innovation from MassArt, with specialties in user experience design, contextual research, and concept development.

 

 

 

Johnny Pellecer

Technical Developer, Brigham Digital Innovation Hub; Mass General Brigham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rin Sato

Analyst, Brigham Digital Innovation Hub

Rin Sato is an Innovation and Operations Analyst at the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub (iHub). As an active contributor to iHub’s digital transformation projects, Rin has had the opportunity to work alongside hospital leaders across Mass General Brigham and software engineers to shape development of both patient and employee facing products such as Mass General Brigham COVID-19 Prescreen, Covid Pass, and Pallicovid. Prior to joining iHub, Rin’s prior experiences include technology consulting and project management and is an Information Systems graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.

 

 

 

 

Alumni

Since the founding of the Brigham Digital Innovation Hub, we have been fortunate to have a number of talented individuals work with our group. Explore our directory of alums.