Ari Friedman

Ari Friedman is a faculty scientific advisor at the Core for Precision Resource Utilization. He is an assistant Professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, is core faculty at the Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research, and is a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. His research investigates the unscheduled care system (primary care clinics, urgent care and retail clinics, telemedicine, and emergency departments)’s impact on access to care, finances, and health outcomes, particularly for aging patients. 

His work has been cited more than 1,500 times, with an h-index of 14, and has been published in journals such as Health Affairs, the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Emergency Medicine, and JAMA Internal Medicine. 

Ari completed his MD at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, his PhD in health care management and economics at the Wharton School, and his residency at the Harvard Affiliate Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.