2027 STA Annual Meeting

Keynote Presentation

"The Always-On Scout: Clinical AI, Patient Safety, and What It Means for the Anesthesiologist"

Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, is the Global Chief Medical Officer at Aidoc, the world's largest clinical AI company, where he leads the integration of AI-driven solutions across more than 1,700 hospitals in 19 countries. A board-certified anesthesiologist and clinical informaticist, he trained at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and remains in active clinical practice as a staff anesthesiologist at Froedtert Hospital and as a Professor of Anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Dr. Ehrenfeld served as the 178th President of the American Medical Association (2023–2024) and is a former Commander in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps and combat veteran, having served as Department Head of Anesthesiology at the NATO Role III Multinational Medical Unit in Kandahar, Afghanistan. His career has uniquely positioned him at the intersection of frontline clinical care, health technology, and national policy.

A leading voice on the future of clinical AI, Dr. Ehrenfeld currently chairs the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee 62, which sets global standards for medical device software and electrical equipment, and co-chairs the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) AI Committee. He also serves on the Consumer Technology Association's Health AI Planning Council. He previously co-directed the Navy Surgeon General's Taskforce on Personalized and Digital Medicine and served as an advisor to the World Health Organization's Digital Health Technical Advisory Group.

His research supported by the NIH, the Department of Defense, and ARPA-H spans perioperative informatics, patient safety, and the responsible deployment of AI in clinical environments. He has authored more than 275 peer-reviewed publications, co-edited 23 clinical textbooks (including six editions of Pocket Anesthesia and Monitoring Technologies in Acute Care Environments), and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Systems.

Dr. Ehrenfeld has been recognized as a STAT News STATUS List changemaker, a Fierce 50 honoree in life sciences, and a HIMSS Changemaker in Health. He received the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Chicago and the 2026 Joseph M. Heyman Award for Outstanding Contributions to Organized Medicine from the Massachusetts Medical Society.

A longtime member of the Society for Technology in Anesthesia, Dr. Ehrenfeld bring both the clinical grounding of an actively practicing anesthesiologist and the global perspective of a leader who has spent his career building the systems that keep patients safe.