Aaron Kornblith, MD, MS
Associate Professor
Emergency Medicine
School of Medicine

He is the research lead for the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, site Principal Investigator for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network, and an affiliated faculty member of the UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute & Center for Intelligent Imaging.

Dr. Kornblith's research program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Pediatric Device Consortium, and the University of California, is dedicated to enhancing the diagnostic evaluation of sick and injured children through advanced data analytics, rigorous clinical trial validation, and translational acceleration. His research mission is to advance and deliver timely, expert-level emergency care for injured children, integrating safe, fair, and accurate AI-enhanced diagnostic strategies that drive precision medicine forward and improve access to care across all healthcare settings.

• Trust of Artificial Intelligence-Augmented Point-of-Care Ultrasound Among Pediatric Emergency Physicians.
  Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open 2025 Lin-Martore M, Kornblith A, Firnberg M, Haque A, O'Brien B
• Analyzing patient perspectives with large language models: a cross-sectional study of sentiment and thematic classification on exception from informed consent.
  Scientific reports 2025 Kornblith AE, Singh C, Innes JC, Chang TP, Adelgais KM, Holsti M, Kim J, McClain B, Nishijima DK, Rodgers S, Shah MI, Simon HK, VanBuren JM, Ward CE, Counts CR
• Fast Interpretable Greedy-Tree Sums.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2025 Tan YS, Singh C, Nasseri K, Agarwal A, Duncan J, Ronen O, Epland M, Kornblith A, Yu B
• Reliability of Physician Estimation of Pelvic Free Fluid Volume on the Pediatric Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma.
  Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2025 Shaahinfar A, Wiebelhaus JR, Addo N, Cohen RA, Karakas-Rothey P, Kornblith AE
• Piloting a Diagnostic Foot and Ankle Fracture Sonographic Algorithm with Rural and Adolescent Patients.
  POCUS journal 2024 Alamin T, Lin-Martore M, Kornblith AE, O'Donnell A, Gragalia S
• Race, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Prehospital Law Enforcement Handcuffing in Children With Behavioral Health Emergencies.
  JAMA network open 2024 Watkins K, Glomb NW, Trivedi TK, Leibovich SA, Cruz-Romero M, Daftary RK, Kornblith AE, Foster AA, Schriger DL, Sporer KA, Kellison C, Hong T, Grupp-Phelan J
• Evaluating the use of large language models to provide clinical recommendations in the Emergency Department.
  Nature communications 2024 Williams CYK, Miao BY, Kornblith AE, Butte AJ
• Enhancing emergency department charting: Using Generative Pre-trained Transformer-4 (GPT-4) to identify laceration repairs.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2024 Bains JK, Williams CYK, Johnson D, Schwartz H, Sabbineni N, Butte AJ, Kornblith AE
• 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 2024 Yusuf HM, Rosenthal E, Kornblith A, Sowar C, Del Toro R, Chen CC
• Early Cold Stored Platelet Transfusion Following Severe Injury: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  Annals of surgery 2024 Sperry JL, Guyette FX, Rosario-Rivera BL, Kutcher ME, Kornblith LZ, Cotton BA, Wilson CT, Inaba K, Zadorozny EV, Vincent LE, Harner AM, Love ET, Doherty JE, Cuschieri J, Kornblith AE, Fox EE, Bai Y, …
• Evaluating Large Language Models for Drafting Emergency Department Discharge Summaries.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024 Williams CYK, Bains J, Tang T, Patel K, Lucas AN, Chen F, Miao BY, Butte AJ, Kornblith AE
• ED-Copilot: Reduce Emergency Department Wait Time with Language Model Diagnostic Assistance
  ArXiv 2024 Liwen Sun, Abhineet Agarwal, Aaron Kornblith, Bin Yu, Chenyan Xiong
• 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 Firnberg M, Addo N, Lin-Martore M, Shaahinfar A, 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 Graglia S, Kornblith A
• 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 Foster AA, Watkins K, Trivedi TK, Cruz-Romero M, Leibovich SA, Daftary RK, Kornblith AE, Grupp-Phelan J, Sporer KA, Kellison C, Glomb NW
• 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 Matthay ZA, Fields AT, Wick KD, Jones C, Lane HC, Herrera K, Nuñez-Garcia B, Gennatas E, Hendrickson CM, Kornblith AE, Matthay MA, Kornblith LZ, COVID-19 Associated Coagulopathy Inflammation …
• 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 Grade MM, Ehlers PF, Kornblith AE, Mower WR, Raja AS, Schleifer J, Liteplo A, Rodriguez RM
• Injury-Related Pediatric Emergency Department Visits in the First Year of COVID-19.
  Pediatrics 2022 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
• 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 Devlin G, Addo N, Shaahinfar A, Chen CC, Grupp-Phelan J, Kornblith AE
• 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 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
• Predictability and stability testing to assess clinical decision instrument performance for children after blunt torso trauma.
  PLOS digital health 2022 Kornblith AE, Singh C, Devlin G, Addo N, Streck CJ, Holmes JF, Kuppermann N, Grupp-Phelan J, Fineman J, Butte AJ, Yu B
• Accuracy and Interrater Reliability of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography Image Interpretation for Intussusception.
  Pediatric emergency care 2022 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, …
• Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasonography for intussusception in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2022 Lin-Martore M, Firnberg MT, Kohn MA, Kornblith AE, Gottlieb M
• Group Probability-Weighted Tree Sums for Interpretable Modeling of Heterogeneous Data
  arXiv 2022 Keyan Nasseri, Chandan Singh, James Duncan, Aaron Kornblith, Bin Yu
• Child Opportunity Index and Changes in Pediatric Acute Care Utilization in the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Pediatrics 2022 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
• SARS COV-2 anti-nucleocapsid and anti-spike antibodies in an emergency department healthcare worker cohort: September 2020 - April 2021.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2022 Wang RC, Murphy CE, Kornblith AE, Hohenstein NA, Carter CM, Wong AHK, Kurtz T, Kohn MA
• The P2Network-Advancing Pediatric Emergency Care With Point-of-Care Ultrasound.
  Pediatric emergency care 2022 Lam SHF, Berant R, Chang TP, Friedman L, Gold DL, Kornblith AE, Lin-Martore M, Pade KH, Skaugset LM, Toney AG, Wang-Flores H
• Fast Interpretable Greedy-Tree Sums
  arXiv 2022 Yan Shuo Tan, Chandan Singh, Keyan Nasseri, Abhineet Agarwal, James Duncan, Omer Ronen, Matthew Epland, Aaron Kornblith, Bin Yu
• Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Critically Ill Patients with Covid-19.
  The New England journal of medicine 2021 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, …
• Therapeutic Anticoagulation with Heparin in Noncritically Ill Patients with Covid-19.
  The New England journal of medicine 2021 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, …
• Diagnostic Applications of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
  Emergency medicine clinics of North America 2021 Lin-Martore M, Kornblith AE
• Diagnostic Accuracy of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Intussusception: A Multicenter, Noninferiority Study of Paired Diagnostic Tests.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2021 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…
• 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 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,…
• How to perform and interpret a first trimester transabdominal point-of-care ultrasound.
  Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2021 Graglia S, Kornblith A
• The P2Network—Advancing Pediatric Emergency Care With Point-of-Care Ultrasound.
  Pediatric Emergency Care 2021 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
• Prevalence of SARS-Cov-2 Antibodies in Emergency Medicine Healthcare Workers.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2021 Wang RC, Murphy CE, Kornblith AE, Kurtz T, Kohn MA
• Emergency Visits and Hospitalizations for Child Abuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Pediatrics 2020 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
• Pediatric Emergency Department Visits at US Children's Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Pediatrics 2020 DeLaroche AM, Rodean J, Aronson PL, Fleegler EW, Florin TA, Goyal M, Hirsch AW, Jain S, Kornblith AE, Sills MR, Wells JM, Neuman MI
• Clinical Evaluation of a COVID-19 Antibody Lateral Flow Assay using Point of Care Samples.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Lee W, Straube S, Sincic R, Noble JA, Montoy JC, Kornblith AE, Prakash A, Wang R, Bainton RJ, Kurien PA
• Trends in Use of Diagnostic Imaging for Abdominal Pain in U.S. Emergency Departments.
  AJR. American journal of roentgenology 2020 Wang RC, Kornblith AE, Grupp-Phelan J, Smith-Bindman R, Kao LS, Fahimi J
• Patient Factors Associated With the Decision to Transfer Adult Patients From a Pediatric Emergency Department for Definitive Care.
  Pediatric emergency care 2020 Kornblith AE, Foster AA, Cho CS, Wang RC, Jaffe DM
• Evaluating a Web-based Point-of-care Ultrasound Curriculum for the Diagnosis of Intussusception.
  AEM education and training 2020 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 Margaret Lin-Martore, Michael P. Olvera, Aaron E. Kornblith, Matthew Zapala, Newton Addo, Michelle Lin, Heidi C. Werner
• Open Science in Emergency Medicine Research.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2020 Taylor RA, Haimovich AD, Horng S, Hinson J, Levin S, Porturas T, Du K, Kornblith A, Hall MK
• 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 Lin-Martore M, Kornblith AE, Kohn MA, Gottlieb M
• Meckel Diverticulum Presenting as Abdominal Pain and Subsequent Bowel Perforation.
  The Journal of emergency medicine 2020 LaFlam TN, Phelps A, Choi WT, Kornblith AE
• 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 Kornblith AE, Graf J, Addo N, Newton C, Callcut R, Grupp-Phelan J, Jaffe DM
• Revisits, readmissions, and outcomes for pediatric traumatic brain injury in California, 2005-2014.
  PloS one 2020 Hsia RY, Mannix RC, Guo J, Kornblith AE, Lin F, Sokolove PE, Manley GT
• Severe Sea Lion Bites in Urban Cold-Water Swimmers.
  The Journal of emergency medicine 2019 Kornblith AE, Budak JZ, Simeone CA, Nuckton TJ
• Pediatric Abdominal Emergencies.
  Family Medicine 2019 Jeffrey Bullard-Berent, Aaron Kornblith
• Computed Tomography Use Plateaus Among Children With Emergency Visits for Abdominal Pain.
  Pediatric emergency care 2019 Fahimi J, Kornblith AE, Kanzaria H, Herring A, Wang RC
• Pediatric Emergency Care Research Networks: A Research Agenda.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2018 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
• Acoustic Methods for Pulmonary Diagnosis.
  IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering 2018 Rao A, Huynh E, Royston TJ, Kornblith A, Roy S
• Sinusitis.
  Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases 2018 Aaron Kornblith
• Supraglottitis (Epiglottis).
  Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases 2018 Aaron Kornblith
• Point-of-Care Ultrasound Integrated Into a Staged Diagnostic Algorithm for Pediatric Appendicitis.
  Pediatric emergency care 2018 Doniger SJ, Kornblith A
• Predictors for under-prescribing antibiotics in children with respiratory infections requiring antibiotics.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2017 Kornblith AE, Fahimi J, Kanzaria HK, Wang RC
• 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 Shyy W, Knight RS, Kornblith A, Teismann NA
• 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 Teismann NA, Ching B, Shyy W, Knight RS, Kornblith A, Webb E, Bogerman M, Qasim A
• Point-of-Care Ultrasonography for Appendicitis Uncovers Two Alternate Diagnoses.
  Pediatric emergency care 2016 Kornblith AE, Doniger SJ
• Useful but not used: pediatric critical care physician views on bedside ultrasound.
  Pediatric emergency care 2015 Kornblith AE, van Schaik S, Reynolds T
• 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 Jeffrey Bullard-Berent, Aaron Kornblith
• 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 Kornblith A, Heard K