Drew Birrenkott, MD, DPhil

Drew Birrenkott, MD, DPhil, is an emergency physician and biomedical engineer. He is currently a fellow in clinical innovation and research translation in vascular emergencies at Mass General Brigham. He completed his doctorate in engineering science at Oxford University using signal processing and AI to estimate respiratory rate from cardiac waveforms. His doctoral work received international patents and has been licensed by start-up companies for use in medical devices. He completed medical school at Stanford University and residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR) at Mass General Brigham. As a member of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Vascular Emergencies, he is currently working on novel applications using both AI and -omics to improve the acute diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) including systems to improve PE triage risk and expedite diagnosis. He is a member of the Automated Registry of CardioVascular Emergencies (ARCVE), a multi-center consortium of hospital systems and venous thromboembolism researchers which has created one of the largest registries of patients evaluated for VTE in the emergency department.