L. Gregory Lawton, MD, FAAP, FAMIA
Areas of expertise: Pediatric Primary Care, Clinical decision support, Artificial Intelligence in medicine, Electronic health record optimization, Care standardization
Locations: Pediatric Primary Care, HighPoint
About L. Gregory Lawton, MD, FAAP, FAMIA
Dr. Lawton is a board-certified primary care pediatrician practicing in Chalfont, PA. He graduated from Muhlenberg College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia on a U.S. Air Force scholarship.
He completed his internship and pediatric residency at David Grant Medical Center, an affiliate of the University of California, Davis. Following residency, he served as the pediatrician at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts. After achieving the rank of Major and fulfilling his military commitment, he returned to the Philadelphia area in 2003 and joined the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Primary Care Network.
In addition to pediatrics, Dr. Lawton is board certified in clinical informatics and serves as the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Medical Director for CHOP’s 31-site Primary Care Network. He is an active member of CHOP’s Digital Health team and has led key initiatives in telemedicine integration, symptom checker implementation, patient portal (MyCHOP) optimization, and, most recently, the rollout of electronic consults (eConsults).
Dr. Lawton also serves on CHOP’s Digital Transparency Team, which partners with patients and families to share laboratory results, imaging, and clinical documentation via MyCHOP, in alignment with the 21st Century Cures Act.
He is a long-time member of the Primary Care Network’s innovation group, The Possibilities Project, which conducts practice-based research to improve clinical decision-making through information technology, usability testing, and iterative process improvement. Ongoing projects include the implementation of headache triage tools for frontline clinicians and expansion of STI screening across the network.
As a leader on CHOP’s Artificial Intelligence team, Dr. Lawton is actively evaluating ambient listening technologies, AI-augmented message responses in MyCHOP, and AI-generated patient chart summaries for ambulatory care. His additional work focuses on leveraging insurance and utilization data to inform ordering practices for procedures, labs, and medications, improving adherence to clinical guidelines and documentation standardization across the network.
Dr. Lawton has presented his informatics work at Epic’s XGM and UGM conferences in Verona, Wisconsin; at AMIA’s Clinical Informatics Conferences in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Anaheim; and at the 2024 Nudges in Health Care Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
In May 2024, he was recognized as a leader in clinical informatics with his induction as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA).
Titles
EHR Medical Director, CHOP Primary Care Network
Certifications
Pediatrics – American Board of Pediatrics
Clinical Informatics – American Board of Preventive Medicine
Awards and Honors
2024, FAMIA Inductee
1992, Phil Beta Kappa, Muhlenberg College
Leadership and Memberships
2-19, Physician Leadership Program Cohort
Education & training
Medical Degree
MD - Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA
Internship
David Grant Medical Center, Travis AFB, CA
Residency
David Grant Medical Center, Travis AFB, CA
Publications
Abstracts (includes Posters and Scientific Presentations)
2025
Standardizing Universal Chlamydia Screening for Adolescents in Pediatric Primary Care, Leigh Foppert, DNP, CRNP; Meera Siddharth, MD; Christina T Sweeney, MSN, CRNP; Jennifer Beals, MS; Kimberly Bennett, DNP, CRNP; Lisa Biggs, MD; Gabrielle DiFiore, MPH; Elena Huang, MD; Brian Jenssen, MD, MSHP; Gregory Lawton, MD; Alexander Fiks, MD, MSCE; Maura Powell, MPH, MBA; Stephanie Mayne, PhD, MHS & Sarah Wood, MD, MSHP, CHOP's Annual Quality and Safety Day. May 2025, Philadelphia, PA.
Results of a Phased Approach to Increase STI Screening Rates in a Large Primary Care Pediatric Network, Lawton - American Medical Informatics Association Clinical Informatics Conference, May 2025
AI Patient Summaries: Early Insights, Impact, and Advice – Proctor, Lawton, Mercado, Presentation, Epic Expert Group Meeting (XGM), May 2025
Sarah M. Wood, MD, MS; Gabrielle DiFiore MPH; Mary Kate Kelly MPH; Stephanie Mayne PhD, MHS; Gregory Lawton MD; Anthony Luberti, MD; Angela Rapposseli MS; Haley Richardson BA; Robert Gross MD, MSCE; Alexander G. Fiks MD, MSCE; Brian P. Jenssen MD, MSHP Effectiveness of clinical decision support in improving HIV screening in pediatric primary care, (Poster abstract) Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, San Francisco, 2025.
2024
Stephon Proctor PhD, Shika Sinha MD, Greg Lawton MD: CHOP to IT – Using AI to Reduce MyCHOP Message Response Time, Epic Webinar, October 29, 2024
Greg Lawton MD, FAAP, FAMIA; Tracey Polsky MD, PhD; Ashley Catanese; Sandra Astorino; Mike Wallace MHA, Jess Boyle; Bimal Desai MD, MBI, FAAP, FAMIA. Poster for Robust Vitamin D - 25-Hydroxy Ordering Clinical Decision Support is a Tasty Recipe for Clin-Fin-Stew (Clinical Financial Stewardship), Nudge Health Care Symposium, Penn Medicine, September 27, 2024
Jennsen B, DiFiore G, Powell M, Luberti A, Rappeselli A, Lawton G , Dalembert G, Wood S, Ford C, Biggs L, Fiks, A. Accelerating Innovation in Primary Care to Support Adolescent Health Discussions, Pediatrics (2024) 154 (1)
AI Walks into a Pediatrician’s Office Presentation, Lawton - American Medical Informatics Association Clinical Informatics Conference, May 2024
McPeak K, Bracey E, Schlotter C, Powel M, Dalembert G, Lawton G, Jenssen B, Junod D, Ramachandran J, Fiks, A. Nursing-direct nudges during triage calls can help children attain preventative care – Poster. Pediatric Academic Society, May 2024.
2023
Clinical Decision Support Improves Adherence with Acute Otitis Media Treatment Guidelines in Ambulatory Pediatric Network Presentation, Lawton – American Medical Informatics Association Clinical Informatics Conference, May 2023
Ku BC, Pitts CE, Lawton LG, Metjian TA, Chiotos K, Gerber JS, Beus JM, Zorc JJ, Hamida C, Lavelle J. Improving Antimicrobial Stewardship for Outpatient Treatment of Children Diagnosed with Community Acquired Pneumonia in the Emergency Department, Urgent Care, and Primary Care. Poster Presentation, CHOP 12th Annual Quality and Safety Day. May 16, 2023, Philadelphia, PA.