Penn Medicine Provider
Emergency Medicine
Ari B. Friedman, MD, PhD
he/him
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

Education and training

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

Insurance accepted

My 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

My research

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: 2025


Trueger NS, Friedman AB Triage, the Tip of the Shears , JAMA Netw Open: 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: 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): 2025,20-31


Zikry HE, Friedman AB, Dresden SM, Gupta R Integrating Emergency Departments Into The CMS GUIDE Model For People Living With Dementia , Health Affairs Forefront: 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


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): 2024,1074-1077


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): 2024,e14305


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): 2024,640-648