The goal of the fellowship is to provide emergency medicine clinicians with the key competencies needed to effectively understand, evaluate, and implement AI systems. Fellows will leave with the skills and knowledge needed to lead an AI implementation effort or continue to develop valuable AI research projects within the field of emergency medicine.
Throughout the fellowship, the BIDMC Division of AI and the fellow will develop an AI-related research project. Fellows will also learn to evaluate, govern, and deploy AI tools in the emergency department — with mentorship from emergency physicians actively building AI systems at BIDMC and Harvard Medical School.
Fellows can choose to do either a 1- or 2-year fellowship, depending on whether there is interest in pursuing an advanced degree. Popular advanced degree options include Master of Clinical Service Operations at Harvard Medical School or a Master of Public Health at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Fellows will work clinically as attendings at BIDMC and one of the HMFP community affiliate hospitals with a shift reduction to facilitate learning, project work and, if desired, advanced degree coursework.
Fellowship Director & Contact
Adrian Haimovich, MD, PhD
ahaimovi@bidmc.harvard.edu
One Deaconess Road
Rosenberg Building, 2nd floor
Boston, MA 02215
Curriculum Highlights
Graduating Fellows should be able to:
- Critically evaluate AI systems used in acute care
- Build and validate clinical AI workflows
- Lead AI-assisted quality assurance systems and educational systems within their home departments
- Conduct AI-focused EM research
- Safely integrate generative AI into emergency department operations
- Collaborate effectively on AI-related EM-improvement projects with data scientists, informaticians, and health systems leadership
- Understand regulatory, ethical, and legal implications of AI in medicine
Didactics - Core Curriculum
The fellowship curriculum for each fellow will be customized based on learning goals and capstone projects. Programs will include some or all of the following:
- Foundations of artificial intelligence in medicine
- Data science and clinical informatics
- Machine learning for emergency medicine
- Generative AI and large language models and clinical applications
- AI applications in emergency department operations
- AI for diagnostic and clinical decision support
- Governance, ethics, safety, and regulation
- Research methods and evaluation science
- Research skills (IRB submission, grant writing, scientific manuscript writing)
- Education and leadership
How To Apply
Application Requirements
- Graduate from LCME-accredited medical institution
- Completion of an emergency medicine residency in a 3- or 4-year program
- Must be in good standing in current training
- Board certified or board eligible in emergency medicine
- Strong interest in clinical AI
Application Timeline
- July – October 1, 2026: Submission of cover letter, CV, and two letters of recommendation (one must be from program director)
- Late October: Interview
- November 30: Notification of acceptance
Submission of Application Materials
Please send all inquiries and applications to
Meaghan Cussen, MA, PMP, EdD
Project Manager, Division of AI in Emergency Medicine
EDFellowship@bidmc.harvard.edu
Fellowship Faculty
FELLOWSHIP DIRECTOR
Adrian Haimovich, MD
Director, Division of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
BIDMC SENIOR MENTORS
Carlo Rosen, MD
Chair and Chief, Emergency Medicine, BIDMC;
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Nathan Shapiro, MD
Vice-Chair, Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC;
Professor, Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Richard Wolfe, MD
Immediate Past Chief, Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC;
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
CORE FACULTY
Peter Antkowiak MD, MPH
Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, Emergency Medicine & Associate CMO, Baystate Health;
Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
David Chiu, MD, MPH
Vice President of Network Operations, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians;
Executive Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC;
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Gabriel Erion Barner, MD, PhD
Attending Emergency Physician, BIDMC;
Instructor in Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Leon Jia, MD
Attending Emergency Physician, BIDMC;
Fellow, Emergency Department Operations, BIDMC/Harvard Medical School
Bryan Stenson, MD
Associate Director of Operations, Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC and BID-Needham; Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Learn More
https://www.bidaiem.org/education/ai-fellowship
