Dr. Lauren Arnold has held a wide array of positions in both the United States and globally. She is a three-time digital health entrepreneur with a 25-year track record of successfully bringing transformative technologies to market in clinical decision support and AI. She is currently head of strategy and growth for healthPrecision, a digital health company with the proprietary Medical Brain AI Digital Clinical Assistant with patient-centric decision support and real-time care orchestration for providers and their patients.
In addition, she is Managing Director Affinity Healthcare Advisory, established to provide consulting services globally with a focus on Middle East and Africa in healthcare strategy, digital health and technology, workforce planning, and population health planning. In the UAE, she served as Advisor to the UAE Minister of Health, in health planning, population health and chronic disease, regulatory framework for health professions and served as strategic advisor for nursing and led the establishment of the UAE Nursing Council.
In addition, she served as Chief Nursing Officer of the University Hospital, Dubai Healthcare City, focused on hospital services and market planning, hospital design and development, operational planning, workforce planning, health professions education, quality, and international collaborations with Harvard Medical, and others.
In the US, she served as CNO for Tenet Health system and Assistant Professor of Nursing and Director of Women’s Services for the University of Pennsylvania, leading the clinical programs at Penn Medicine and establishing and leading the perinatal advance practice nursing program. She also served as senior fellow to the Congressional Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality on health policy initiatives to improve access to care and reduce infant mortality. She also served on the American Nurses Association Council on Perinatal Nursing. In addition to the above, she advised health systems on post-merger integration strategies as a senior manager at Ernst & Young.