Aligning Clinical Mission with Operational Excellence through AI

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 | 12:30 PM–1:45 PM
Casanova 603

Health systems are facing a perfect storm of margin compression, labor shortages, and clinician burnout. While much of the AI conversation centers on clinical diagnostics, there is massive untapped opportunity for health system resilience in the back office. In this session, Amy Trainor (RN and CIO of Ochsner Health) and Dan Wesley (CTO of Workday) discuss how to identify the high-value business problems that AI is uniquely suited to solve—and how a unified data strategy can finally align a hospital’s clinical mission with its operational reality.

Amy Trainor

RN, SVP and CIO,
Ochsner Health

Dan Wesley

CTO, Planning and Logistics,
Workday