Professor Peter Steel

Director, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, and Associate Dean of Digital Health & Informatics, University of Melbourne | Chief Transformation Officer, The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Peter is an emergency physician, health-system executive and digital health leader focused on advancing clinical artificial intelligence and technology-enabled care to improve patient outcomes, workforce experience and health-system performance.

He serves as the University of Melbourne’s Associate Dean of Digital Health & Informatics and Director of the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, and is the inaugural Chief Transformation Officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In these roles, he leads work to advance data-driven and AI-enabled healthcare across patient care, medical research, education and health-service transformation.

Peter earned his pre-clinical M.A. (Hons) at the University of Oxford and his medical degree from University College London–Royal Free Medical School. He completed emergency medicine residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia and Cornell in New York City, and practised as a board-certified attending emergency physician at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine.

Prior to joining the University of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Hospital, he served as Vice Chair of Clinical Services in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and as Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine. He also led a federally and industry-funded clinical AI research program focused on translating advanced digital intelligence into safer care, improved patient outcomes and stronger health-system performance.