Veena Goel Jones MD FAAP

Hospitalist

Pediatric Hospitalist, Palo Alto Medical Foundation / Medical Director, Digital Patient Experience, Sutter Health

795 El Camino RealPalo Alto, CA 94301
Phone+1 650-321-4121

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Summary

Board-certified clinical informaticist and Medical Director of the Digital Patient Experience in the Office of Patient Experience at Sutter Health. Simultaneously working as a pediatric hospitalist with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation based at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Passionate about harnessing technology to empower patients as they navigate all aspects of their health.

Education & Training

Stanford Health CareClinical Informatics Fellowship, 2014 - 2016
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityPost-Doctoral Fellowship, Pediatric Hospital Medicine, 2013 - 2016
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityResidency, Pediatrics, 2010 - 2013
University of Arizona College of MedicineClass of 2010

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Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2011 - 2026
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatrics
American Board of Preventive Medicine Clinical Informatics
American Board of Pediatrics Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

103 citations
Evaluation of an Ambient Artificial Intelligence Documentation Platform for Clinicians.
Cheryl D Stults, Sien Deng, Meghan C Martinez, Joseph Wilcox, Nina Szwerinski
JAMA Network Open. 2025-05-01
32 citations
Prompt engineering on leveraging large language models in generating response to InBasket messages.
Sherry Yan, Wendi Knapp, Andrew Leong, Sarira Kadkhodazadeh, Souvik Das
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2024-10-01
Mislabeled Bag Urine Cultures and Antibiotic Treatment Decisions.
Danni Liang, Alan R Schroeder, Lydia Maleknia, Jessica M Allan, Miranda Kane
Pediatrics. 2024-07-01

Journal Articles

COVID-19 and Kawasaki Disease: Novel Virus and Novel Case
Veena Jones, MD, Hospital Pediatrics
2 month old with Stridor after URI
Hensley, A., Goel, V., Kim, J, Pediatrics in Review Index of Suspicion, 6/2016
Learning Statistical Models of Phenotypes Using Noisy Labeled Training Data
Agarwal, V., Podchiyska, Goel, V., Leung, T., Minty, E., Sweeney, T., Gyang, E., Shah, N, Under revision, 3/1/2015

Abstracts/Posters

Implementation of Data Driven Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate Parameters on a Pediatric Acute Care Unit
Goel, V., Poole, S., Kipps, A., Palma, J., Longhurst, C., Sharek, P, International Medical Informatics Association Med-Info Meeting 2015, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 8/22/2015
Changing Management of the Patent Ductus Arteriosus: Effect on Neonatal Outcomes and Resource Utilization
Chock V., Goel V., Palma J., Luh T., Gaskari S., Punn R., Silverman N., Benitz W, Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting 2015, San Diego, CA, 4/2015
The Frequency of Physiologic Monitor Alarms in a Children’s Hospital
Schondelmeyer A.C., Simmons J.M., Bonafide C.P., Goel V., Sucharew H., Huang G., Blake N., Brady P.W., Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting 2015, San Diego, CA, 4/2015

Lectures

The Electronic Medical Record: Evidence Based Implementation, Quality Improvement and Research
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia - 3/6/2015
The Electronic Medical Record: Evidence Based Implementation and Quality Improvement
Monash Health, Melbourne, Australia - 3/5/2015
Evidence-Based EMR Implementation
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia - 3/2015

Other

Stanford University: Big Data in Biomedicine Conference
Goel V
http://bigdata.stanford.edu/pastevents/2015interviews.html
5/21/2015
Lucile Packard uses big data to tackle alarm fatigue
Verel, D, Medcity News
http://medcitynews.com/2014/12/lucile-packard-uses-big-data-tackle-alarm-fatigue/
12/17/2014

Authored Content

COVID-19 and Kawasaki Disease: Novel Virus and Novel CaseJune 2020
Inpatient-Derived Vital Sign Parameters Implementation: An Initiative to Decrease Alarm BurdenJuly 2017

Press Mentions

Sutter Health Study Finds Ambient AI Can Ease Physicians BurnoutNovember 6th, 2025
With Ambient AI, 93% of Doctors Can Give Patients “Full Attention”November 6th, 2025
How Electronic Health Record AI Is Changing Medical Summaries for Doctors and Helping PatientsJuly 21st, 2025