Ari B. Friedman, MD, PhD

he/him
Emergency Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Emergency Medicine - Clifton Center for Medical Breakthroughs
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in Medical Ethics and Health Policy

My education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Spoken languages

English
English

Insurance accepted

Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.

Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Friedman is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

Research

Publications

Friedman AB, Delgado MK, Janke AT. A Dose of Delay: Emergency Department Boarding and Early Clinical Deterioration , Ann Emerg Med, 87(6): 2026,694-696

Friedman AB, Adjei-Poku MN, Schadt LA, Li Y, Cappola AR, Kelz RR, Hwang U, Kowdley G, Mwinyogle A, Trueger NS Clinical Features, CT Imaging Decisions and Yield by Age in Adults With Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department , Acad Emerg Med, 33(5): 2026,e70299

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, 33(1): 2026,e70029

Mantilla JJ, Burke RC, Orav EJ, Masser BA, Wolfe RE, Sabbatini AK, Lin MP, Friedman AB, Burke LG Trends in Urgent Care Utilization Among Medicare Beneficiaries From 2012 to 2019 , JAMA Netw Open, 9(1): 2026,e2555345

Nessen SJ, Friedman AB, Bhananker AR, Muir KJ, Chary AN Waiting room and hallway care for older adults: a qualitative study with emergency nurses and technicians , BMC Geriatr, 1(970): 2025

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, 73(8): 2025,2503-2511

Nguemeni Tiako MJ, Engel-Rebitzer E, Friedman A, Shofer F, Dolan A, Hess EP, Perrone J, Schapira MM, Meisel ZF Racial Disparities in Unmet Pain Treatment Preference, Pain Treatment Satisfaction and Subsequent Opioid Misuse: A Secondary Analysis of a National Multisite RCT , J Gen Intern Med: 2025

Trueger NS, Friedman AB Triage, the Tip of the Shears , JAMA Netw Open, 8(5): 2025

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 , Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: 2025,1-26

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: 2025