Clinical Lead, Artificial Intelligence

Position summary

Ontario Health is seeking expressions of interest from clinician leaders in Ontario with extensive experience in artificial intelligence (AI) for the position of Clinical Lead, Artificial Intelligence. This opportunity is open to all qualified candidates.

Reporting to the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Ontario Health, the Clinical Lead will provide leadership and expertise in the development, identification, evaluation, adoption and scaling of AI technologies across Ontario’s health care system. This role will support Ontario Health’s goal of establishing Ontario as the world’s leading health care jurisdiction in the development, deployment and use of AI technologies to drive better health system outcomes.

The Clinical Lead, Artificial Intelligence will provide leadership and expert advice to guide Ontario Health’s evolving provincial AI action plan, with a particular focus on priorities including:

• Identifying high impact, evidence-based clinical use cases for AI health technologies
• Identifying, evaluating and performing quality assurance activities around promising AI health technologies to guide decisions around which technologies are of high value and high impact potential for scaling up provincially
• Establishing processes and infrastructure for rapidly scaling high value AI health technologies regionally and provincially, including leveraging existing provincial clinical digital infrastructure and clinical decision support systems to support the training and deployment of health AI solutions
• Advising on high value provincial health data assets (including administrative, clinical and electronic health record data) for supporting development and deployment of health AI solutions, and how these data assets can be accessed, transformed and securely shared to support AI development and deployment
• Advising on building skills, capacity and readiness in health care organizations for AI adoption

Recognizing the importance of partnerships in advancing these objectives, the Clinical Lead, Artificial Intelligence will also serve as a liaison between Ontario Health leadership, clinical leaders, AI developers and health system partners in collaborative efforts to advance the provincial health AI action plan.

Questions about the role may be submitted by email no later than June 12, 2025.

A consolidated list of all questions and answers will be available to any party, by request, by June 17, 2025 Interested parties should forward their expression of interest and curriculum vitae, electronically, with the subject line as “Application for AI Clinical Lead - [Your Name]” no later than 5:00 P.M. on June 20, 2025.

To send a question, receive a copy of the consolidated list of questions and answers, or to submit your expression of interest, please contact Sourcing@ontariohealth.ca.

Accountabilities

The key responsibilities of the Clinical Lead, Artificial Intelligence, include:

• Provide clinical leadership and expert guidance in frameworks and approaches for assessing the effectiveness, safety, and feasibility of adopting AI applications in real-world healthcare settings
• Guide the development of processes for identifying, evaluating, and driving provincial adoption and monitoring of high value health care AI technologies, in collaboration with health system partners
• Ensure alignment with provincial health care priorities and system transformation initiatives
• Work with health system partners to guide responsible deployment and scaling of clinically validated AI tools
• Engage with health care leaders and organizations to support partnerships for advancing the provincial action plan for AI in health
• Serve as a trusted clinician leader voice to build system-wide confidence in AI-enabled health care tools and champion transparency and adherence to ethical AI principles
• Advise on high value provincial health data assets (including administrative, clinical and electronic health record data) for supporting development and deployment of health AI solutions, and how these data assets can be accessed, transformed and securely shared to support AI development and deployment
• Advise on processes and infrastructure for rapidly scaling high value AI health technologies provincially, including leveraging existing provincial clinical digital infrastructure and clinical decision support systems to support the deployment of health AI solutions
• Advising on building skills, capacity and readiness in health care organizations for AI adoption
• Guide development of mechanisms for responsible evaluation and safe provincial deployment of clinically validated AI technologies
• Monitor progress against objectives and key performance indicators related to selected AI priorities and initiatives
• Identify provincial barriers and enablers to health care AI development, deployment and scaling; guide the design of strategies to remove barriers and leverage enablers
• Enhance communication and knowledge exchange to inform provincial priorities and local implementation of AI initiatives

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Recognized leader in the field of AI technologies in health care
• Licensed clinician
• Experience in leading large scale, data-driven health AI projects with a track record of successful deployment and impact
• Demonstrated experience in clinical innovation and health care system leadership and transformation, with experience guiding multi-disciplinary projects involving clinical, administrative and data/digital teams
• Working knowledge of best practices and methodologies for AI model validation, review, implementation and monitoring
• Experience leading system-level change, including scaling of tools, new models of care and frameworks across diverse clinical settings
• Knowledge of relevant legislative and policy frameworks

Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrated understanding of provincial data and digital assets and architecture
• Deep understanding of clinical workflows and how AI can integrate into health care practice in the Ontario health care system
• Proven ability to assess clinical risk, safety, and effectiveness of AI applications and support scale-up efforts
• Excellent communicator with mature leadership experience in building strong relationships and achieving consensus

How to apply

Interested parties should forward their expression of interest and curriculum vitae, electronically, with the subject line as “Application for AI Clinical Lead - [Your Name]” no later than 5:00 P.M. on June 20, 2025 to Sourcing@ontariohealth.ca.

We will evaluate all applications against the skills and experience requirements for the position. Those candidates selected for interview will be contacted directly by a representative from the Business Unit. Ontario Health may consider applications from incumbents currently in the position. If you have not been contacted within 3 weeks after the close of the posting, you can assume you are not under consideration for this position.

More About Ontario Health

Ontario Health is an agency created by the Government of Ontario with a mandate to connect and coordinate Ontario’s health care system in ways that have not been done before, to help ensure that Ontarians receive the best possible care.

Ontario Health oversees health care delivery across the province, which includes ensuring front-line providers and other health professionals have the tools and information they need to deliver the best possible care within their communities. This also means simplifying the current system and connecting and coordinating its many complex parts in new and innovative ways. This involves keeping a close eye on how the health system is performing and providing evidence-based standards and improvements to address any gaps.

Ontario Health helps to support significant and important transformation in Ontario’s health system, working to ease the transition between points of care for Ontarians and helping to ensure they have access to the care they need. Ontario Health is adapting world-renowned practices from areas such as cancer care and renal care to other parts of the system, including mental health and addictions.

Through integration, coordination, connection, and clinical excellence, Ontario Health is working to reduce strain on the system which will enable investment of more resources on the care Ontarians need, and, most importantly, improve health outcomes and overall wellness for all.

As an operational service agency of the Government of Ontario, Ontario Health is accountable for conducting a fair and transparent process, providing equal treatment to all qualified parties, in selecting a candidate for the above mentioned role.