Barry Stein, MD, MBA, FSIR, FACR, RPVI
VP, Chief Clinical Innovation Officer
Dr. Barry Stein is an experienced physician executive and innovation leader across multiple medical domains, specialties, and organizational functions.
He is committed to advancing the frontier of personalized coordinated patient care, exploring opportunities at the intersect of innovative technologies, advanced analytics, and medical informatics to impact healthcare delivery and transformation. His focus is on building a world class differentiated multistakeholder innovation ecosystem to accelerate the validation and clinical integration of promising early to mid-stage digital healthcare startups. Recognizing artificial intelligence (AI) as the fuel for in healthcare innovation, he has been developing an enterprise capability to unlock its transformative in a safe and trustworthy way.
Barry is currently the Chief Clinical Innovation Officer and Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Hartford HealthCare (HHC) as well as leader of “HHC’s Center for AI Innovation in Healthcare”. where he also practices as a Vascular and Interventional Radiologist and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He has held numerous leadership positions at HHC including Chief Imaging Informatics Officer, leading the visioning and development of a globally recognized “Enterprise Imaging Platform”; Vice Chair of Radiology; Chief of Cardiovascular MRI & CT; and Director of the Advanced Imaging and Quantitative Analysis Core Laboratory.
Barry received his post graduate medical training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where he did his Radiology residency, served as Chief Resident, and completed fellowships in MRI and Vascular & Interventional Radiology. He received his medical degree from the University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa. Barry is board certified by the American Board of Radiology in Diagnostic Radiology and Vascular and Interventional Radiology and is a fellow of both the Society of Interventional Radiology and American College of Radiology. He is a recognized expert and innovator in Cardiovascular MRI and CT and is regarded as one of the pioneers in the development, and clinical paradigm shift, from Invasive Angiography to Magnetic Resonance Angiography.
Barry graduated with his Executive MBA from MIT-Sloan School of Management where remains actively engaged having served on the MIT-Sloan Alumni Board; as an invited lecturer in numerous courses including on “Innovation Ecosystems”, “Quantitative and Qualitative approaches to Leadership”, and “Dynamic Work Design for Competitive Advantage; a mentor for MIT-LinQ Startup accelerator programs in the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering & Science; a mentor to students from the MIT Initiative for Health Systems Innovation; as well as a co-principal investigator in clinical and operational heath systems analytics research and development in collaboration with MIT-Sloan senior leadership, faculty and PhD’s. Barry and colleagues at HHC are co-founders of a startup, H2O, in partnership with the Associate Dean of Analytics at MIT-Sloan, developing solutions for holistic hospital operations optimization leveraging advanced analytic frameworks.