Dr. Luo is an attending physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, faculty in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHi), an assistant professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a core faculty member in the Clinical Futures.

Dr. Luo completed her pediatric residency and clinical informatics fellowship at CHOP. She is a physician scientist double board certified in pediatrics and clinical informatics.  Dr. Luo cofounded the Health Technology and Patient Safety Program at CHOP and currently serves as the Medical Director.  The team partners with a team of highly skilled physicians, nurses, informaticists, human factors engineers, biomedical engineers, analysts and vendors to ensure healthcare technologies continue to keep pediatric patient safety as a top priority.  She has led work in developing in situ simulations to measure response times to alarms, usability, and human centered design in the implementation of smartphone technology at CHOP. 

Dr. Luo’s research interest involves clinical decision support within the electronic health record (EHR) and studying complex interactions at the intersection of health technology, human factors and clinical care to maximize patient safety. She has led successful efforts to implement electronic health record clinical decision support at 18 institutions across 4 EHRs as part of an NIH grant aimed to reduce unnecessary physiologic monitoring led by Dr. Chris Bonafide. Most recently, Dr. Luo is a co-investigator on the recently awarded ARHQ Patient Safety Learning Lab studying clinical communications.  

PubMed: Brooke Luo, MD