Peter Najjar, MD

Peter A. Najjar, MD, MBA is the Vice President of Clinical Innovation for Johns Hopkins Health System and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He leads strategic solutions, clinical data, and advanced technology teams based out of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality and partners across the Hopkins ecosystem to identify, develop and implement novel clinical systems and technologies, and to bring mission-aligned innovations to market.

Dr. Najjar has led the creation of dedicated health system patient safety, operational excellence, and clinical data abstraction teams. He takes clinical innovations from implementation to market, including the founding of Safetower, Inc., a Hopkins subsidiary delivering artificial intelligence-enabled patient safety solutions. He serves on the executive boards of Safetower, Illustra Health, and Priority Partners, as well as the on quality and safety boards for Johns Hopkins’ Howard County Medical Center and Bayview Medical Center.

He co-directs the JHM Health Systems Management Fellowship for budding physician-executives, and was awarded the Frederic E. Eckhauser award for his mentorship of surgical residents. He is clinically active at Johns Hopkins Hospital, specializing in complex and robotic colorectal surgery.

Dr. Najjar attended the University of California, Davis before earning his M.D. from the University of Chicago and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He completed general surgery residency and fellowships in both colorectal surgery and patient safety and quality at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital.