CHICAGO — The American Medical Association (AMA) today announced the hiring of Jennifer Goldsack as senior vice president and inaugural leader of the AMA Center for Digital Health and AI. Goldsack joins the AMA from the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), a global non-profit organization dedicated to advancing digital medicine to optimize health, where she was both founder and CEO.
A leading voice on the responsible adoption of digital health and AI in healthcare, Goldsack has a record of bringing together evidence, clinical practice, technology, and policy to help ensure digital innovations are safe, effective, equitable and capable of delivering meaningful value for patients and physicians. Just last month, the AMA and DiMe, under Goldsack’s leadership, launched a framework identifying five enduring responsibilities for physicians alongside evolving digital health and AI.
“I am pleased to welcome Jennifer Goldsack to the AMA as the inaugural leader of the Center for Digital Health and AI,” said AMA CEO John Whyte, MD, MPH. “We are at a defining moment for medicine. Digital health and augmented intelligence are rapidly and fundamentally changing how and where care is delivered. For these tools to reach their full potential and be effective for patients, physicians must lead the way in developing and implementing them. Jennifer is the right leader for this moment because she knows how to bring physicians and innovators together and translate that collaboration into real-world impact on patient care.”
Goldsack founded DiMe in 2019 and built the organization into a leading global authority on the evidence, policy, and practice needed to advance digital technologies in healthcare and research. Under her leadership, DiMe developed frameworks for evaluating sensor-based measures that have been cited by both the FDA and European Medicines Agency; established collaborative communities with FDA participation to advance digital measurement and connected health; and launched the DiMe Seal, an evidence-based evaluation framework for digital health software that CMS recognizes as an on-ramp to its Medicare App Library, helping expand access to high-quality digital health tools for Medicare beneficiaries. DiMe has also developed practical tools to advance reimbursement and implementation of virtual-first care.
Goldsack has paired this work to build the field’s evidence and implementation infrastructure with extensive service across science, policy and healthcare. She serves on the board of Sage Bionetworks, is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Genomics and Precision Health, contributes to the World Economic Forum’s Digital Health Action Collaborative, and serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.
Before founding DiMe, Goldsack held leadership roles at the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI), a public-private partnership co-founded by Duke University and the FDA, where she led digital health initiatives and served as operational co-lead of the first randomized clinical trial conducted using FDA’s Sentinel System. Earlier in her career, she conducted outcomes and clinical research at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, helped launch a pragmatic research and innovation center within a health system, and worked with digital health startups.
“Reimagining how we care for people in the digital era has been the focus of my career, and we are at an extraordinary moment of opportunity,” Goldsack said. “We have powerful new tools at our disposal and a responsibility to make sure we harness them to improve people’s lives. I’m thrilled to join the AMA and work alongside physicians and partners across healthcare. We’re going to set a high bar for what better healthcare looks like in the digital and AI era. And together, we will make it happen.”
Since its launch last year, the AMA Center for Digital Health and AI has produced key research, including: a survey of AI usage among physicians, showing growing confidence in the technology’s clinical advantages; and an international survey on wearables that showed strong enthusiasm for the technology, as well as system barriers preventing them from reaching their full potential in patient care.
Goldsack earned her master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford, England, her master’s in the history and sociology of medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, and her MBA from the George Washington University. A retired elite athlete, she is also a Pan American Games champion, Olympian, former world record holder, and World Championship silver medalist.
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