Ari Benjamin Friedman, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Attending Physician, Hospital of University of PENN
Attending Physician, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Core Faculty, Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research, University of Pennsylvania
Fellow, Institute on Aging, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Emergency Medicine
Contact information
Department of Emergency Medicine
Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive, Room 408
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive, Room 408
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-746-5619
Email:
arib@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
arib@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Education:
MS (Health Care Management and Economics)
The Wharton School, 2010.
PhD (Health Care Management and Economics)
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, 2016.
MD (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania, 2016.
Permanent linkMS (Health Care Management and Economics)
The Wharton School, 2010.
PhD (Health Care Management and Economics)
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, 2016.
MD (Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania, 2016.
Selected Publications
Nessen SJ, Chary AN, Bhananker AR, Muir KJ, Southerland LT, O'Brien K, Friedman AB: NOTICE-ED: Nurse or Technician Insights Into Cognitive Evaluations in the Emergency Department. J Am Geriatr Soc Jun 2025.Trueger NS, Friedman AB: Triage, the Tip of the Shears. JAMA Netw Open May 2025.
Gettel CJ, Venkatesh AK, Uzamere I, Galske J, Chera T, White MA, Hwang U, PROM‐OTED Group Authorship: Development and validation of the Patient-Reported Outcome Measure-Older adult care Transitions from the Emergency Department (PROM-OTED) tool. Acad Emerg Med Mar 2025.
Wu RR, Adjei-Poku MN, Kelz RR, Peck GL, Hwang U, Cappola AR, Friedman AB: Trends in visits, imaging, and diagnosis for emergency department abdominal pain presentations in the United States, 2007-2019. Acad Emerg Med 32(1): 20-31, Jan 2025.
Zikry HE, Friedman AB, Dresden SM, Gupta R: Integrating Emergency Departments Into The CMS GUIDE Model For People Living With Dementia. Health Affairs Forefront Jan 2025.
Unachukwu I, Adjei-Poku MN, Sailors OC, Gonzales R, South EC, Meisel ZF, Kelz RR, Cappola AR, Friedman AB: Images in Black and White: Disparities in Utilization of Computed Tomography and Ultrasound for Older Adults with Abdominal Pain. West JEM 26(3), 2025 Notes: doi:10.5811/WESTJEM.18087.
Zeng E, Wu X, Ertmann EN, Huang L, Johnson DF, Mehendale AT, Tang BT, Zhukoff K, Adjei-Poku M, Bauer L, Friedman AB, McCoy M: Measuring Risks to Users' Health Privacy Posed by Third-Party Web Tracking and Targeted Advertising. Association for Computing Machinery 2025.
Friedman AB, Delgado MK, Auriemma CL, Kilaru AS: Hospital-free days: A novel measure to study outcomes for emergency department care. Acad Emerg Med 31(10): 1074-1077, Oct 2024.
Chen AT, Kuzma RS, Friedman AB: Identifying low acuity Emergency Department visits with a machine learning approach: The low acuity visit algorithms (LAVA). Health Serv Res 59(4): e14305, Aug 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.14305. Epub 2024 Mar 30.
Gonzales RE, Seeburger EF, Friedman AB, Agarwal AK: Patient perceptions of behavioral flags in the emergency department: A qualitative analysis. Acad Emerg Med 31(7): 640-648, Jul 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1111/acem.14887. Epub 2024 Mar 21.