Aaron Kornblith, MD

Dr. Aaron Kornblith is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the research lead for the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, co-HEDA PI for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), and an affiliated faculty member of the UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute & Center for Intelligent Imaging.

Dr. Kornblith's research program, funded by the NIH, NSF, the Pediatric Device Consortium, and the University of California, is dedicated to enhancing the diagnostic evaluation of sick and injured children through advanced data analytics and rigorous clinical trial validation. His research mission is to advance and deliver timely, expert-level emergency care for injured children, integrating safe, fair, and accurate AI-enhanced diagnostic strategies—driving precision medicine forward and improving care equity across all healthcare settings.
Education
Fellowship, 2015 - Pediatric Emergency Medicine, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Fellowship, 2015 - Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Residency, 2013 - Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Medical Degree, 2009 - School of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver
Honors and Awards
  • Senior Reviewer & Top Reviewer, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2022-2023
  • The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2019
  • Junior National Teaching Faculty Award, American College of Emergency Physicians, 2017-2018
  • UCSF EM Residency 4th Quarter Bedside Teaching Award, UCSF Mission Bay, 2017-2018
  • Top New Reviewer, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2014-2015
  • Teaching Fellow of the Year, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, 2014-2015
  • Graduating Resident of the Year, Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 2012-2013
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Society, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 2007-2008
Websites
  1. Tan YS, Singh C, Nasseri K, Agarwal A, Duncan J, Ronen O, Epland M, Kornblith A, Yu B. Fast Interpretable Greedy-Tree Sums PNAS 2025. PMID:



  2. Alamin T, Lin-Martore M, Kornblith AE, O'Donnell A, Gragalia S. Piloting a Diagnostic Foot and Ankle Fracture Sonographic Algorithm with Rural and Adolescent Patients. POCUS Journal 2024. PMID: 39634680


  3. Watkins K, Glomb NW, Trivedi TK, Leibovich SA, Cruz-Romero M, Daftary RK, Kornblith AE, Foster AA, Schriger DL, Sporer KA, Kellison C, Hong T, Grupp-Phelan J. Race, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Prehospital Law Enforcement Handcuffing in Children With Behavioral Health Emergencies. JAMA network open 2024. PMID: 39527058





  4. Sperry JL, Guyette FX, Rosario-Rivera BL, Kutcher ME, Kornblith LZ, Cotton BA, Wilson CT, Inaba K, Zadorozny EV, Vincent LE, Harner AM, Love ET, Doherty JE, Cuschieri J, Kornblith AE, Fox EE, Bai Y, Hoffman MK, Seger CP, Hudgins J, Mallett-Smith S, Neal MD, Leeper CM, Spinella PC, Yazer MH, Wisniewski SR, Cold Stored Platelet for Hemorrhagic Shock (CRISP-HS) study group. Early Cold Stored Platelet Transfusion Following Severe Injury: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Annals of surgery 2024. PMID: 38708880


  5. Williams CYK, Zack T, Miao BY, Sushil M, Wang M, Kornblith AE, Butte AJ. Use of a Large Language Model to Assess Clinical Acuity of Adults in the Emergency Department. JAMA network open 2024. PMID: 38713466


  6. Williams CYK, Bains J, Tang T, Patel K, Lucas AN, Chen F, Miao BY, Butte AJ, Kornblith AE. Evaluating Large Language Models for Drafting Emergency Department Discharge Summaries. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024. PMID: 38633805


  7. Liwen Sun, Abhineet Agarwal, Aaron Kornblith, Bin Yu, Chenyan Xiong. ED-Copilot: Reduce Emergency Department Wait Time with Language Model Diagnostic Assistance ArXiv 2024. PMID:




  8. Foster AA, Watkins K, Trivedi TK, Cruz-Romero M, Leibovich SA, Daftary RK, Kornblith AE, Grupp-Phelan J, Sporer KA, Kellison C, Glomb NW. Physical restraint use in children with mental and behavioral health emergencies in the prehospital setting. Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open 2023. PMID: 37600903


  9. Matthay ZA, Fields AT, Wick KD, Jones C, Lane HC, Herrera K, Nu?ez-Garcia B, Gennatas E, Hendrickson CM, Kornblith AE, Matthay MA, Kornblith LZ, COVID-19 Associated Coagulopathy Inflammation Thrombosis (Co-ACIT) Study Group. Association of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid viral antigen and the receptor for advanced glycation end products with development of severe disease in patients presenting to the emergency department with COVID-19. Frontiers in immunology 2023. PMID: 37026003



  10. Wells JM, Rodean J, Cook L, Sills MR, Neuman MI, Kornblith AE, Jain S, Hirsch AW, Goyal MK, Fleegler EW, DeLaroche AM, Aronson PL, Leonard JC. Injury-Related Pediatric Emergency Department Visits in the First Year of COVID-19. Pediatrics 2022. PMID: 35836331



  11. Snelling PJ, Shefrin AE, Moake MM, Bergmann KR, Constantine E, Deanehan JK, Dessie AS, Elkhunovich MA, Gold DL, Kornblith AE, Lin-Martore M, Nti B, Pade KH, Parri N, Sivitz A, Lam SHF. Establishing the International Research Priorities for Pediatric Emergency Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasound: A Modified Delphi Study. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2022. PMID: 36043227


  12. Kornblith AE, Singh C, Devlin G, Addo N, Streck CJ, Holmes JF, Kuppermann N, Grupp-Phelan J, Fineman J, Butte AJ, Yu B. Predictability and stability testing to assess clinical decision instrument performance for children after blunt torso trauma. PLOS Digital Health 2022. PMID: 36812570


  13. Bergmann KR, Khant M, Lammers S, Arroyo AC, Avendano P, Chaudoin L, Cohen SG, Deanehan JK, Kornblith AE, Lam SHF, Lin-Martore M, Malia L, Pade KH, Park DB, Sivitz A, Shahar-Nissan K, Snelling PJ, Tessaro MO, Thomas-Mohtat R, Whitcomb V, Yock-Corrales A, Walsh P, Watson D, Madhok M, P2Network Intussusception Study Group. Accuracy and Interrater Reliability of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography Image Interpretation for Intussusception. Pediatric emergency care 2022. PMID: 36040465



  14. Keyan Nasseri, Chandan Singh, James Duncan, Aaron Kornblith, Bin Yu. Group Probability-Weighted Tree Sums for Interpretable Modeling of Heterogeneous Data ArXiv 2022. PMID:


  15. Fritz CQ, Fleegler EW, DeSouza H, Richardson T, Kaiser SV, Sills MR, Cooper JN, Parikh K, Puls HT, DeLaroche AM, Hogan AH, Pantell MS, Kornblith AE, Heller KR, Bigham MT, Goyal M. Child Opportunity Index and Changes in Pediatric Acute Care Utilization in the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2022. PMID: 35233618


  16. Kornblith AE, Addo N, Plasencia M, Shaahinfar A, Lin-Martore M, Sabbineni N, Gold D, Bellman L, Berant R, Bergmann KR, Brenkert TE, Chen A, Constantine E, Deanehan JK, Dessie A, Elkhunovich M, Fischer J, Gravel CA, Kharasch S, Kwan CW, Lam SHF, Neal JT, Pade KH, Rempell R, Shefrin AE, Sivitz A, Snelling PJ, Tessaro MO, White W. Development of a Consensus-Based Definition of Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma in Children. 2022. PMID: 35302632


  17. Wang RC, Murphy CE, Kornblith AE, Hohenstein NA, Carter CM, Wong AHK, Kurtz T, Kohn MA. SARS COV-2 anti-nucleocapsid and anti-spike antibodies in an emergency department healthcare worker cohort: September 2020 - April 2021. 2022. PMID: 35144108


  18. Lam SHF, Berant R, Chang TP, Friedman L, Gold DL, Kornblith AE, Lin-Martore M, Pade KH, Skaugset LM, Toney AG, Wang-Flores H. The P2Network-Advancing Pediatric Emergency Care With Point-of-Care Ultrasound. 2021. PMID: 34787985


  19. Yan Shuo Tan, Chandan Singh, Keyan Nasseri, Abhineet Agarwal, James Duncan, Omer Ronen, Matthew Epland, Aaron Kornblith, Bin Yu. Fast Interpretable Greedy-Tree Sums ArXiv 2022. PMID:


  20. Kornblith AE, Addo N, Dong R, Rogers R, Grupp-Phelan J, Butte A, Gupta P, Callcut RA, Arnaout R. Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Strategy for Automated View Classification of Pediatric Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma. 2021. PMID: 34741469


  21. REMAP-CAP Investigators , ACTIV-4a Investigators , ATTACC Investigators , Goligher EC, Bradbury CA, McVerry BJ, Lawler PR, Berger JS, Gong MN, Carrier M, Reynolds HR, Kumar A, Turgeon AF, Kornblith LZ, Kahn SR, Marshall JC, Kim KS, Houston BL, Derde LPG, Cushman M, Tritschler T, Angus DC, Godoy LC, McQuilten Z, Kirwan BA, Farkouh ME, Brooks MM, Lewis RJ, Berry LR, Lorenzi E, Gordon AC, Berry SM, McArthur CJ, Neal MD, Hochman JS, Webb SA, Zarychanski R, Ahuja T, Al-Beidh F, Annane D, Arabi YM, Aryal D, Baumann Kreuziger L, Beane A, Bhimani Z, Bihari S, Billett HH, Bond L, Bonten M, Brunkhorst F, Buxton M, Buzgau A, Castellucci LA, Chekuri S, Chen JT, Cheng AC, Chkhikvadze T, Coiffard B, Contreras A, Costantini TW, de Brouwer S, Detry MA, Duggal A, Džavík V, Effron MB, Eng HF, Escobedo J, Estcourt LJ, Everett BM, Fergusson DA, Fitzgerald M, Fowler RA, Froess JD, Fu Z, Galanaud JP, Galen BT, Gandotra S, Girard TD, Goodman AL, Goossens H, Green C, Greenstein YY, Gross PL, Haniffa R, Hegde SM, Hendrickson CM, Higgins AM, Hindenburg AA, Hope AA, Horowitz JM, Horvat CM, Huang DT, Hudock K, Hunt BJ, Husain M, Hyzy RC, Jacobson JR, Jayakumar D, Keller NM, Khan A, Kim Y, Kindzelski A, King AJ, Knudson MM, Kornblith AE, Kutcher ME, Laffan MA, Lamontagne F, Le Gal G, Leeper CM, Leifer ES, Lim G, Gallego Lima F, Linstrum K, Litton E, Lopez-Sendon J, Lother SA, Marten N, Saud Marinez A, Martinez M, Mateos Garcia E, Mavromichalis S, McAuley DF, McDonald EG, McGlothlin A, McGuinness SP, Middeldorp S, Montgomery SK, Mouncey PR, Murthy S, Nair GB, Nair R, Nichol AD, Nicolau JC, Nunez-Garcia B, Park JJ, Park PK, Parke RL, Parker JC, Parnia S, Paul JD, Pompilio M, Quigley JG, Rosenson RS, Rost NS, Rowan K, Santos FO, Santos M, Santos MO, Satterwhite L, Saunders CT, Schreiber J, Schutgens REG, Seymour CW, Siegal DM, Silva DG, Singhal AB, Slutsky AS, Solvason D, Stanworth SJ, Turner AM, van Bentum-Puijk W, van de Veerdonk FL, van Diepen S, Vazquez-Grande G, Wahid L, Wareham V, Widmer RJ, Wilson JG, Yuriditsky E, Zhong Y. Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19. The New England journal of medicine 2021. PMID: 34351722


  22. ATTACC Investigators , ACTIV-4a Investigators , REMAP-CAP Investigators , Lawler PR, Goligher EC, Berger JS, Neal MD, McVerry BJ, Nicolau JC, Gong MN, Carrier M, Rosenson RS, Reynolds HR, Turgeon AF, Escobedo J, Huang DT, Bradbury CA, Houston BL, Kornblith LZ, Kumar A, Kahn SR, Cushman M, McQuilten Z, Slutsky AS, Kim KS, Gordon AC, Kirwan BA, Brooks MM, Higgins AM, Lewis RJ, Lorenzi E, Berry SM, Berry LR, Angus DC, McArthur CJ, Webb SA, Farkouh ME, Hochman JS, Zarychanski R, Aday AW, Al-Beidh F, Annane D, Arabi YM, Aryal D, Baumann Kreuziger L, Beane A, Bhimani Z, Bihari S, Billett HH, Bond L, Bonten M, Brunkhorst F, Buxton M, Buzgau A, Castellucci LA, Chekuri S, Chen JT, Cheng AC, Chkhikvadze T, Coiffard B, Costantini TW, de Brouwer S, Derde LPG, Detry MA, Duggal A, Džavík V, Effron MB, Estcourt LJ, Everett BM, Fergusson DA, Fitzgerald M, Fowler RA, Galanaud JP, Galen BT, Gandotra S, García-Madrona S, Girard TD, Godoy LC, Goodman AL, Goossens H, Green C, Greenstein YY, Gross PL, Hamburg NM, Haniffa R, Hanna G, Hanna N, Hegde SM, Hendrickson CM, Hite RD, Hindenburg AA, Hope AA, Horowitz JM, Horvat CM, Hudock K, Hunt BJ, Husain M, Hyzy RC, Iyer VN, Jacobson JR, Jayakumar D, Keller NM, Khan A, Kim Y, Kindzelski AL, King AJ, Knudson MM, Kornblith AE, Krishnan V, Kutcher ME, Laffan MA, Lamontagne F, Le Gal G, Leeper CM, Leifer ES, Lim G, Lima FG, Linstrum K, Litton E, Lopez-Sendon J, Lopez-Sendon Moreno JL, Lother SA, Malhotra S, Marcos M, Saud Marinez A, Marshall JC, Marten N, Matthay MA, McAuley DF, McDonald EG, McGlothlin A, McGuinness SP, Middeldorp S, Montgomery SK, Moore SC, Morillo Guerrero R, Mouncey PR, Murthy S, Nair GB, Nair R, Nichol AD, Nunez-Garcia B, Pandey A, Park PK, Parke RL, Parker JC, Parnia S, Paul JD, Pérez González YS, Pompilio M, Prekker ME, Quigley JG, Rost NS, Rowan K, Santos FO, Santos M, Olombrada Santos M, Satterwhite L, Saunders CT, Schutgens REG, Seymour CW, Siegal DM, Silva DG, Shankar-Hari M, Sheehan JP, Singhal AB, Solvason D, Stanworth SJ, Tritschler T, Turner AM, van Bentum-Puijk W, van de Veerdonk FL, van Diepen S, Vazquez-Grande G, Wahid L, Wareham V, Wells BJ, Widmer RJ, Wilson JG, Yuriditsky E, Zampieri FG. Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Noncritically Ill Patients with Covid-19. The New England journal of medicine 2021. PMID: 34351721



  23. Bergmann KR, Arroyo AC, Tessaro MO, Nielson J, Whitcomb V, Madhok M, Yock-Corrales A, Guerrero-Quesada G, Chaudoin L, Berant R, Shahar-Nissan K, Deanehan JK, Lam SHF, Snelling PJ, Avendano P, Cohen SG, Friedman N, Ekpenyong A, Pade KH, Park DB, Lin-Martore M, Kornblith AE, Montes-Amaya G, Thomas-Mohtat R, Jin J, Watson D, Sivitz A, P2Network. Diagnostic Accuracy of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Intussusception: A Multicenter, Noninferiority Study of Paired Diagnostic Tests. Annals of emergency medicine 2021. PMID: 34226072


  24. Matthay ZA, Kornblith AE, Matthay EC, Sedaghati M, Peterson S, Boeck M, Bongiovanni T, Campbell A, Chalwell L, Colwell C, Farrell MS, Kim WC, Knudson MM, Mackersie R, Li L, Nunez-Garcia B, Langness S, Plevin RE, Sammann A, Tesoriero R, Stein DM, Kornblith LZ. The DISTANCE study: Determining the impact of social distancing on trauma epidemiology during the COVID-19 epidemic-An interrupted time-series analysis. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2021. PMID: 33252457



  25. Wang RC, Murphy CE, Kornblith AE, Kurtz T, Kohn MA. Prevalence of SARS-Cov-2 Antibodies in Emergency Medicine Healthcare Workers. Annals of emergency medicine 2021. PMID: 33902837


  26. Kaiser SV, Kornblith AE, Richardson T, Pantell MS, Fleegler EW, Fritz CQ, Parikh K, Zagel A, Sills MR, Souza HG, Goyal MK, Hogan AH, Heller KR, DeLaroche AM, Cooper JN, Puls HT. Emergency Visits and Hospitalizations for Child Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pediatrics 2020. PMID: 33380432


  27. DeLaroche AM, Rodean J, Aronson PL, Fleegler EW, Florin TA, Goyal M, Hirsch AW, Jain S, Kornblith AE, Sills MR, Wells JM, Neuman MI. Pediatric Emergency Department Visits at US Children's Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pediatrics 2020. PMID: 33361360


  28. Lee W, Straube S, Sincic R, Noble JA, Montoy JC, Kornblith AE, Prakash A, Wang R, Bainton R, Kurien P. Clinical Evaluation of a COVID-19 Antibody Lateral Flow Assay using Point of Care Samples. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020. PMID: 33300003


  29. Wang RC, Kornblith AE, Grupp-Phelan J, Smith-Bindman R, Kao LS, Fahimi J. Trends in Use of Diagnostic Imaging for Abdominal Pain in U.S. Emergency Departments. AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2020. PMID: 33211574



  30. Lin-Martore M, Olvera MP, Kornblith AE, Zapala M, Addo N, Lin M, Werner HC. Evaluating a Web-based Point-of-care Ultrasound Curriculum for the Diagnosis of Intussusception. AEM education and training 2020. PMID: 34041433


  31. Taylor RA, Haimovich AD, Horng S, Hinson J, Levin S, Porturas T, Du K, Kornblith A, Hall MK. Open Science in Emergency Medicine Research. Annals of emergency medicine 2020. PMID: 32713485





  32. Hsia RY, Mannix RC, Guo J, Kornblith AE, Lin F, Sokolove PE, Manley GT. Revisits, readmissions, and outcomes for pediatric traumatic brain injury in California, 2005-2014. PloS one 2020. PMID: 31978188


  33. Kornblith AE, Budak JZ, Simeone CA, Nuckton TJ. Severe Sea Lion Bites in Urban Cold-Water Swimmers. The Journal of emergency medicine 2019. PMID: 31708308


  34. Jeffrey Bullard-Berent, Aaron Kornblith. Pediatric Abdominal Emergencies. Family medicine 2019. PMID:


  35. Fahimi J, Kornblith AE, Kanzaria H, Herring A, Wang RC. Computed Tomography Use Plateaus Among Children With Emergency Visits for Abdominal Pain. Pediatric emergency care 2019. PMID: 28816891


  36. Stoner MJ, Mahajan P, Bressan S, Lam SHF, Chumpitazi CE, Kornblith AE, Linakis SW, Roland D, Freedman SB, Nigrovic LE, Denninghoff K, Ishimine P, Kuppermann N. Pediatric Emergency Care Research Networks: A Research Agenda. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2018. PMID: 30393902


  37. Rao A, Huynh E, Royston TJ, Kornblith A, Roy S. Acoustic Methods for Pulmonary Diagnosis. IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering 2018. PMID: 30371387