Peter Steel | Chief Transformation Officer, RMH / Director Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, Uni Melb
The Royal Melbourne Hospital / The University of Melbourne

Professor Peter Steel, MA, MBBS, FACEP
Chief Transformation Officer, Royal Melbourne Hospital
Director, Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, University of Melbourne
Associate Dean of Digital Health & Informatics, University of Melbourne Professor Peter Steel 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. He is a physician, health-system executive and academic leader focused on translating advances in biomedical data, AI and digital technology into better health and healthcare. Across these roles, he works at the intersection of healthcare delivery, clinical informatics and health services research to advance the rigorous evaluation and implementation of digitally enabled models of care. A central focus of his work is building the multidisciplinary capabilities and partnerships across healthcare, academia and industry needed to move promising innovation into routine clinical practice safely, at scale and with measurable impact. His research spans clinical AI, patient safety, technology-enabled models of care and health-system transformation. 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 translational research program applying AI and digital technologies to acute care, with a focus on patient safety, clinical outcomes and health-system performance. 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 his 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.