Benjamin Laughton spent his early career on the front lines of healthcare, working as a bedside nurse in a busy inner-city emergency department and as a Critical Care Nurse Practitioner. At the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Ben was served as the Director of Clinical Operations and left this role to become the Chief Nurse Informatics Officer for the University of Maryland Medical System and later the Chief Nurse Informatics Officer at Loyola University Health Systems. He is now the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer and Executive Director of Clinical Professional Practice at UChicago Medicine.