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 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 is focused on improving the diagnostic evaluation of sick and injured children through advanced data analytics, novel hardware design, and clinical trial validation. Dr. Kornblith has received funding from the NIH, NSF, the Pediatric Device Consortium, and the University of California to advance his research mission, including improving the accuracy and reliability of clinical decision instruments using multimodal learning to diagnose bleeding in injured children rapidly. His academic mission is collaborating and supporting multidisciplinary teams to solve complex real-world clinical problems with predictable, stable, and fair technological solutions.
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. Firnberg M, Addo N, Lin-Martore M, Shaahinfar A, Kornblith A. Evaluation of Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma Completeness of Children in the Clinical Setting. Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2024. PMID: 38282464


  2. Yusuf HM, Rosenthal E, Kornblith A, Sowar C, Del Toro R, Chen CC. Understanding a community's needs for an emergency department-based childhood injury prevention programme: a mixed-methods study. Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention 2023. PMID: 38050122


  3. Graglia S, Kornblith A. Point-of-care ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia: the superficial cervical plexus block for a patient with a clavicle fracture. Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2023. PMID: 37604655


  4. 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


  5. 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


  6. Grade MM, Ehlers PF, Kornblith AE, Mower WR, Raja AS, Schleifer J, Liteplo A, Rodriguez RM. Effect of the Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma on the Screening Performance of the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study Chest Decision Instrument. Annals of emergency medicine 2023. PMID: 36754698


  7. 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


  8. Devlin G, Addo N, Shaahinfar A, Chen CC, Grupp-Phelan J, Kornblith AE. Toxic Exposures Among Young Children One Year into the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Review of Three San Francisco Bay Area Emergency Departments. The Journal of emergency medicine 2022. PMID: 36828751


  9. 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


  10. 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


  11. 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


  12. Lin-Martore M, Firnberg MT, Kohn MA, Kornblith AE, Gottlieb M. Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasonography for intussusception in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The American journal of emergency medicine 2022. PMID: 35749802


  13. 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


  14. 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


  15. 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


  16. 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


  17. 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


  18. 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


  19. 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


  20. Lin-Martore M, Kornblith AE. Diagnostic Applications of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Emergency medicine clinics of North America 2021. PMID: 34215400


  21. 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


  22. 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


  23. Graglia S, Kornblith A. How to perform and interpret a first trimester transabdominal point-of-care ultrasound. Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2021. PMID: 33658269


  24. Samuel H. F. Lam, Ron Berant, Todd P. Chang, Lucas Friedman, Delia L. Gold, Aaron E. Kornblith, Margaret Lin-Martore, Kathryn H. Pade, L. Melissa Skaugset, Amanda G. Toney, Helena Wang-Flores. The P2Network—Advancing Pediatric Emergency Care With Point-of-Care Ultrasound. Pediatric emergency care 2021. PMID:


  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. Kornblith AE, Foster AA, Cho CS, Wang RC, Jaffe DM. Patient Factors Associated With the Decision to Transfer Adult Patients From a Pediatric Emergency Department for Definitive Care. Pediatric emergency care 2020. PMID: 29135904


  31. 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


  32. Margaret Lin-Martore, Michael P. Olvera, Aaron E. Kornblith, Matthew Zapala, Newton Addo, Michelle Lin, Heidi C. Werner. Evaluating a Web-based Point-of-care Ultrasound Curriculum for the Diagnosis of Intussusception. AEM education and training 2020. PMID:


  33. 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


  34. Lin-Martore M, Kornblith AE, Kohn MA, Gottlieb M. Diagnostic Accuracy of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Intussusception in Children Presenting to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. The western journal of emergency medicine 2020. PMID: 32726276


  35. LaFlam TN, Phelps A, Choi WT, Kornblith AE. Meckel Diverticulum Presenting as Abdominal Pain and Subsequent Bowel Perforation. The Journal of emergency medicine 2020. PMID: 32317193


  36. Kornblith AE, Graf J, Addo N, Newton C, Callcut R, Grupp-Phelan J, Jaffe DM. The Utility of Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma Enhanced Physical Examination in Children With Blunt Torso Trauma. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2020. PMID: 32159909


  37. 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


  38. 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


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


  40. 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


  41. 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


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


  43. Aaron Kornblith. Sinusitis. Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases 2018. PMID:


  44. Aaron Kornblith. Supraglottitis (Epiglottis). Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases 2018. PMID:


  45. Doniger SJ, Kornblith A. Point-of-Care Ultrasound Integrated Into a Staged Diagnostic Algorithm for Pediatric Appendicitis. Pediatric emergency care 2018. PMID: 27299296


  46. Kornblith AE, Fahimi J, Kanzaria HK, Wang RC. Predictors for under-prescribing antibiotics in children with respiratory infections requiring antibiotics. The American journal of emergency medicine 2017. PMID: 28774769


  47. Shyy W, Knight RS, Kornblith A, Teismann NA. Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Cardiac Tamponade Identified by the Flow Velocity Paradoxus. Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2017. PMID: 28503752


  48. Teismann NA, Ching B, Shyy W, Knight RS, Kornblith A, Webb E, Bogerman M, Qasim A. Technical Pitfalls in Sonography of the Inferior Vena Cava: Beware the Diaphragm. Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2017. PMID: 28339116


  49. Kornblith AE, Doniger SJ. Point-of-Care Ultrasonography for Appendicitis Uncovers Two Alternate Diagnoses. Pediatric emergency care 2016. PMID: 26785100


  50. Kornblith AE, van Schaik S, Reynolds T. Useful but not used: pediatric critical care physician views on bedside ultrasound. Pediatric emergency care 2015. PMID: 25706921


  51. Jeffrey Bullard-Berent, Aaron Kornblith. Case Studies in Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound By David J. McLario, John L. Kendall. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013; 280 pp + DVD-ROM; $85.50 (Amazon; softcover). Academic Emergency Medicine 2015. PMID:


  52. Kornblith A, Heard K. Reliability and validity of 5 databases for the identification of warfarin-medication interactions. Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis 2010. PMID: 21078612