「デジタル技術による医療変革の最前線」 第6回 LINK-J・UCサンディエゴ ライフサイエンスシンポジウム

Chris Longhurst, MD, MS
Chief Medical Officer & Chief Digital Officer, UC San Diego Health
Associate Dean, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Christopher Longhurst MD, MS, is the chief medical officer (CMO) and chief digital officer (CDO) at UC San Diego Health. This dual, complementary role provides leadership to medical staff, ensuring that standards and protocols are in place to provide the highest quality of care to patients. He also serves as an associate dean at the School of Medicine, overseeing and aligning our education and research missions within the clinical environment, and leading our journey to become a highly reliable, learning health system.As CMO,
Dr. Longhurst is responsible for maintaining excellence in clinical care, including regulatory, patient and clinician satisfaction, quality and safety, and medical affairs. He works alongside leaders at UC San Diego Health, the School of Medicine, and UC Health to improve care delivery and oversees UC San Diego Health’s reputation for delivering safe, innovative, patient-centered care.
Dr. Longhurst is passionate about implementing innovative digital solutions that help improve the patient experience. As the CDO, he leads UC San Diego Health’s technology strategy, overseeing initiatives that advance the infrastructure across UC San Diego and the UC Health system. In addition, Dr. Longhurst leads the clinical activities of the academic medical center, working alongside clinical leaders to guide the planning of quality, safety, and performance excellence of programs.

He is also a key faculty member in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatrics in the UC San Diego School of Medicine, maintaining an active clinical practice as a newborn hospitalist and pursuing scholarship in care quality, patient safety, and health informatics.
Prior to his current role, Dr. Longhurst served as the chief information officer (2015-2021) and associate chief medical officer for quality and safety (2018-2021) at UC San Diego Health, where he provided leadership in key functional areas to continuously improve efforts around operations, reputation and care.

Before joining UC San Diego Health, Dr. Longhurst served as chief medical information officer for Stanford Children's Health. He led strategic efforts to improve children's health and provider workflow using information technology. He founded and led the nation's first accredited clinical informatics fellowship at Stanford, where he was a clinical professor of pediatrics and biomedical informatics. He also staffed the quality committee of Stanford's hospital board and facilitated national quality improvement collaborative work.
Dr. Longhurst completed his residency at Stanford University and earned his medical degree and MS in medical informatics from UC Davis. He holds a BS in molecular biology from Revelle College at UC San Diego. He is a board-certified pediatrician and clinical informaticist.

He is the author and co-author of many publications on using technology and data to improve quality of care. Dr. Longhurst is an elected fellow of the prestigious American College of Medical Informatics.

Ratnesh Lal, PhD
Professor of Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science & Engineering, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

Lal is a professor of Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science & Engineering, and Co-Director of Center for Excellence in Nanomedcine and Engineering at UC San Diego.
He received his MS and Masters of Philosophy in Physics and Biophysics from JNU in New Delhi and his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of Alabama. After postdoctoral training at Caltech, he was a faculty member at the University of Chicago and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Before accepting his current position at UC San Diego, he was a professor and the director of the newly established Center of Nanomedicine at the University of Chicago.
He is a Fellow of AAAS (the American Association for Advancement of Science) and a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He was a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute for Applied Physics, Shanghai. Before, he was the UTS Invited Professor in Sydney for the Bionanotechnology initiative and a New Zealand Government International Science Scholar.
Professor Lal is an Associate Editor of the Journal Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, Medicine. He is the Chairman of Vessel ANI, Inc, Ampera Life, Inc and is on advisory board of RC Nano LLC and Be Green Packaging LLC. Professor Lal served on the NIH Nano study section.
In addition to seminal research publications in the field of nanomedicine, he holds several patents based upon AFM cantilever arrays, microfluidics, optoelectronics and nanotubes for medical diagnostics and medical nanodevices, nanoscale fluid behavior and new TIRF, FRET and related optical microscopy.

荻島 創一
東北大学高等研究機構未来型医療創成センター/東北メディカル・メガバンク機構

東北大学高等研究機構未来型医療創成センター 教授。東北大学東北メディカル・メガバンク機構 医療情報ICT部門 ゲノム医科学情報学分野/情報セキュリティ分野 教授。2000年東京大学工学部計数工学科卒業、東京医科歯科大学大学院修了（博士（医学））。同大学助手・助教、ハイデルベルク大学 定量システム生物学研究所(BIOQUANT) 客員研究員を経て、2012年5月より東北大学 東北メディカル・メガバンク機構 講師、准教授、2018年4月から現職。専門はバイオインフォマティクス、ゲノム医療情報学。日本バイオインフォマティクス学会 理事、情報計算化学生物(CBI)学会 執行部会員・評議員、日本オミックス医学会 理事、日本医療情報学会 国際委員会委員、日本メディカルAI学会 評議員。

関谷 毅
大阪大学産業科学研究所　教授

大阪大学産業科学研究所教授。2003年、東京大学大学院工学系研究科応用物理学専攻博士課程修了。2003年から2010年まで東京大学大学院工学系研究科助教授、2011年から同准教授。2014年より現職。2017年、大阪大学栄誉教授の称号を授与。2019年より大阪大学総長補佐。内閣府有識者会議委員、日本学術会議会員、日本工学アカデミー理事、同若手委員会委員長。現在、ナノサイエンスとナノテクノロジーの主要な国際学術誌であるACS Nanoの副編集長。また、Advanced Electronic Materials (Wily)とMRS Bulletin (Springer Nature)の編集委員でもある。また、医療機器会社PGV Inc.の創設者兼取締役。2014年にトムソン・ロイター社、2018年にClarivate Analytics社から「Highly Cited Researchers」、2009年と2010年にIEEE Paul Rappaport賞、2023年にSID Jan Rajchman賞を受賞など。

松葉 威人
株式会社Citadel AI Chief Operating Officer

Citadel AI 参画前、Google Health の日本事業の立ち上げと、日本の大手がん専門病院との AI 支援乳がんスクリーニングに関する初の共同研究プロジェクトを主導。Google 入社前は三菱商事に勤務し、ヘルスケア業界での投資、M&A、新規事業開発を主導し、ベイエリアにおいて北米ヘルスケアビジネス責任者として従事。MIT スローン経営大学院で経営学修士号（MBA）を取得。