About Tom Lawry

Healthcare AI Leader, Author & Keynote Speaker


Tom Lawry's work focuses on helping healthcare leaders navigate the transition from today's AI experimentation to the emerging world of Intelligent Health — where artificial intelligence is embedded into how organizations operate, how people work, how decisions are made, and how to restore more humanity, quality, and efficiency to providing health and medical services.


His perspective is grounded in almost two decades at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and leadership.


Tom served as Microsoft’s National Director for AI in Health & Life Sciences,  Director of Worldwide Health, and Director of Organizational Performance for the company's first health incubator. His career also includes leadership roles with GE Healthcare, founding two venture-backed healthcare technology companies, and serving as a health system executive and board member.


He's a bestselling author and advisor to organizations around the world. In 2025, he was named one of the global “Top 20 AI Voices to Follow"  by Medika Life.


Tom's work is built around a simple premise:


AI is the technology.


Intelligent Health is the destination.


Leadership is what gets us there.


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Tom Lawry is an AI advisor, author and speaker focused on health and medicine.

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  • Who is Tom Lawry?

    Tom Lawry is a healthcare AI keynote speaker, advisor, and bestselling author who helps healthcare leaders move to what he calls "Intelligent Health" — organizations where AI is embedded into operations, workflows, decision-making, and service delivery. He is Managing Director of Second Century Tech and previously served as Microsoft's National Director of AI for Health and Life Sciences.

  • What is Tom Lawry's professional background?

    Tom Lawry has spent nearly two decades at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and leadership. Before founding Second Century Tech, he held senior roles at Microsoft, including National Director of AI for Health & Life Sciences, Director of Worldwide Health, and Director of Organizational Performance for Microsoft's first health incubator. Earlier in his career he held leadership roles at GE Healthcare, founded two venture-backed healthcare technology companies, and served as a health system executive and board member.

  • What did Tom Lawry do at Microsoft?

    At Microsoft, Tom Lawry served as National Director of AI for Health and Life Sciences. He also served as Director of Worldwide Health and as Director of Organizational Performance for Microsoft's first health incubator.

  • What makes Tom Lawry different from other AI advisors?

    Tom Lawry is a former Microsoft AI executive, three-time author, and global keynote speaker who helps health leaders turn AI from hype into measurable results. Unlike most AI advisors, he has led AI transformation from the inside — as Microsoft's National Director of AI for Health and Life Sciences, he has helped the leading health systems through real-world adoption. Today he helps executives, boards, and clinical leaders move AI from pilots to enterprise-wide results with a goal of restoring more humanity to healthcare.

  • What books has Tom Lawry written?

    Tom Lawry is the author of AI in Health: A Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health, now in its second edition (releasing October 15, 2026); Hacking Healthcare: How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System (Amazon bestseller), and Health Care Nation: The Future Is Calling and It's Better Than You Think. The first edition of AI in Health was publisher in 2020 and translated into four languages.

  • What awards and recognition has Tom Lawry received?

    Tom Lawry was named one of the global "Top 20 AI Voices to Follow" by Medika Life in 2025 and one of the Top 150 Healthtech Exponentialists. A Harris Poll of attendees at the 2023 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference recognized him as one of the most recognized leaders driving change and engagement in healthcare today.

  • What does Tom Lawry mean by "Intelligent Health?"

    Intelligent Health is Tom Lawry's term for a healthcare organization that has moved beyond experimenting with artificial intelligence to embedding it directly into its operations, clinical workflows, decision-making, and service delivery. It is the central framework behind his books, keynotes, and advisory work, and the focus of his book AI in Health: A Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health.

  • Who does Tom Lawry work with?

    Tom Lawry advises and speaks to health system CEOs and boards, senior healthcare leadership teams, physicians and nurses, health technology leaders, life sciences executives, medical associations, and investor groups navigating the opportunities and challenges created by AI.

  • Is Tom Lawry available for keynote speaking and workshops?

    Yes. Tom Lawry delivers keynotes, executive workshops, board and leadership retreats, and moderated fireside conversations on AI in healthcare, in person or virtually. He is based in the Seattle, Washington area and speaks worldwide, with about one third of his engagements outside the United States.

Tom Lawry is a top AI keynote speaker, a leading AI transformation advisor to health and medical leaders around the world, and the best-selling author of Hacking Healthcare – How AI and the Intelligent Health Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System.


He’s the Managing Director of Second Century Tech and a former Microsoft exec who served as National Director for AI for Health and Life Sciences, Director of Worldwide Health, and Director of Organizational Performance for the company’s first health incubator.


Tom’s work and views have been featured in Forbes, CEO Magazine, Harvard Business Review, CNET, Inside Precision Medicine, and numerous media outlets, webcasts and podcasts.


In a Harris Poll of 2023 attendees of the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, Tom was named one of the most recognized leaders driving change and engagement in healthcare today. He has also been named one of the Top 150 Healthtech Exponentialists.