Dr. Ehrenfeld serves as global chief medical officer at Aidoc, bridging frontline clinical care with AI-driven solutions to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes. Additionally, he is a practicing anesthesiologist and a professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin. As the 178th president of the American Medical Association and its immediate past president, he has focused national policy attention on the ethical implementation of AI and the reduction of clinician burnout, which he identifies as a critical patient safety variable. He led the “Diagnostic Error Mortality Avoidance Estimation” project, developing a methodology that demonstrated AI-driven notification systems could prevent approximately 10% of misdiagnosis-related deaths annually. This work suggests the potential to save more than 41,000 lives per year at scale, across conditions such as intracranial hemorrhage, pulmonary embolism and aortic dissection. With more than 275 peer-reviewed manuscripts, Dr. Ehrenfeld’s research has consistently focused on how informatics can reduce intraoperative complications.
