Mr. Kulkarni leads transformative change across Children’s Hospital Los Angeles by designing and implementing innovative, human-centered digital solutions spanning the digital front door, virtual care, patient engagement, data management and an elevated patient experience. He built CHLA’s Innovation Studio from the ground up, establishing a platform focused on digital health solutions that address virtual care, social and emotional determinants of health, AI, voice recognition, virtual and augmented reality, digital therapeutics and medical devices. Among his standout accomplishments, Mr. Kulkarni launched “MyVisit,” an innovative web-based application providing families with real-time access to emergency department visit details directly from their smartphones, an initiative that reduced open-ended patient feedback about wait time concerns by 23%. He also led the implementation of an AI scribe solution to reduce physician burnout, with the pilot phase yielding a 47% reduction in burnout scores alongside reduced task load, mental fatigue and same-day note completion improvements. Under his leadership, the hospital became the first children’s hospital in the nation to deploy Moxi robot helpers for 24/7 pharmaceutical delivery and the first to deploy a virtual rooming experience for patient families, and the organization is currently piloting generative AI to translate discharge notes for Spanish-speaking patients. This effort is a particularly critical capability given that 60% of CHLA’s patients speak Spanish. Beyond CHLA, Mr. Kulkarni serves as founder and managing director of KidsX, an international pediatric digital health accelerator with more than 30 member children’s hospitals.
