Dr. Ainsley MacLean is Chief Medical Information Officer and Chief AI Officer for the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group. In these roles she oversees a large team of software engineers, physician informaticists, and clinical analysts in the design and implementation of all technology, AI and telehealth enhancements, advancing our digital and AI first strategy alongside the entire executive team and partners across Kaiser Permanente. Dr. MacLean is the senior physician executive accountable for the electronic medical record, patient portal and all associated technologies at Kaiser Permanente MidAtlantic States. A founder and co-executive sponsor of the Permanente Medicine Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence, Dr. MacLean is certified by and on the advisory board for the American Board of AI and Medicine (ABAIM). She is an official member of the Forbes Technology Council and has published several articles in this role on AI and other technologies.

As associate medical director for Radiology and POCUS, she oversees the diagnostic and interventional radiology teams who perform more than 800,000 imaging examinations and procedures annually, as well as a robust region-wide point of care ultrasound program which spans 20 specialties. Dr. MacLean serves on the Kaiser Permanente Ventures Investment Committee. A recent graduate of the Harvard Business School Executive Leadership Program of Kaiser Permanente, Dr. MacLean is also a graduate of Brown University, where she concentrated in the visual arts, and the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, where she received her medical degree. She holds a certificate in Leadership and Management from the Wharton School online at the University of Pennsylvania. She serves on the Board of Directors of the National Women’s History Museum.