Dr. Gregg M. Gascon is responsible for contributing to the development, implementation and management of evaluation and research efforts to support artificial intelligence and data literacy initiatives as a data science advisor for OhioHealth in AI Enablement; OhioHealth is a network of 16 hospitals, 3 joint-venture hospitals, 200+ ambulatory sites and other health services spanning a 50-county area in the U.S.  In the context of artificial intelligence, Dr. Gascon develops hypotheses, tests and analyzes study results, and utilizes knowledge of health system operations, managed care, and clinical care to implement artificial intelligence models and guide performance improvement efforts to achieve organizational goals. In the context of data literacy, Dr. Gascon wrote curricula, developed and analyzed assessments to achieve program and organizational goals based on the research, evaluation, and statistics courses he has taught. 

Dr. Gascon has lectured on statistics, research design and methods, and program evaluation at The Ohio State University since 2007 and currently holds a courtesy faculty appointment in The Ohio State University’s College of Medicine in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. He has served the Cochrane Methodology Review Group as an expert peer reviewer under Coordinating Editor Mike Clarke in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and as an author with the Cochrane Work Group under Jan Hoving at Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands. He has been published in such journals at the American Journal of Disaster Medicine, the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lancet Digital Health, and Preventing Chronic Disease.

Dr. Gascon was selected to serve on the Scientific Organizing Committee of the 2018 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics, the primary conference of the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and was appointed in 2021 to the ASA’s Scientific and Public Affairs Advisory Committee where he serves to this day. Beginning in 2023, he has served the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s National Occupational Research Agenda Sector Council for Healthcare and Social Assistance, a national collaborative body that works towards the dissemination of effective interventions in these fields. Dr. Gascon currently is a member of the advisory board to the American Board of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and the International AI in Medicine Education Working Group at the University of Toronto. A text that he co-edited for Elsevier with Drs. Anthony Chang and Alfonso Limon, Intelligence-Based Healthcare: An Essential Guide with Case Studies of Artificial Intelligence for the Healthcare Leader and Provider, is scheduled to be published in October 2026. He and his wife Tracey have been married for 35 years and are the parents of three children and grandparents of one.