Harrison
Lobdell
IVMD · MPH · FAAEM · Board Certified EM
Austin, Texas
I practice emergency medicine and build AI-driven healthcare companies. Right now I'm developing AI-focused clinical products and scaling startup clinical businesses from zero.
I've spent my career at the intersection of clinical medicine and operational scale — building the infrastructure that makes healthcare work, not just treating the patients in front of me.
As Deputy CMO at Curative, I helped coordinate over 2 million COVID vaccinations across 12 states, building national clinical operations from the ground up. As co-founder of Wellness & Equity Alliance, I scaled a health equity organization from two people to 40+ staff in under a year, securing over $2 million in government contracts and federal grants.
I still practice emergency medicine. Seeing patients grounds everything I build — it keeps the clinical reality sharp. But I'm increasingly focused on what AI can do at the system level: better documentation, smarter triage, real-time decision support, and clinical products that actually get adopted.
Currently open to
Co-founder roles
AI healthcare products
Advisory
Health systems & clinical startups
Engagements
Clinical ops & strategy
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George Washington University
School of Medicine
Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health
Cook County Health
Emergency Medicine
Curative
Medical Associates
National Institutes of Health
RADx-UP Grant Recipient
Centers for Disease Control
Grant Recipient
By the numbers
0M+
Patients vaccinated
across clinical ventures
$0M+
Revenue generated
across built organizations
0+
Staff scaled from two
in under twelve months
$0K
Federal grants
awarded as principal investigator
Organizations built, scaled, and led.
Stealth-Mode AI Research Platform
Occupational Reviewer — Emergency Medicine · Contract
Remote
Reviewing real-world knowledge-work tasks weekly for alignment with the scope and professional realities of emergency medicine. Evaluating task requests and deliverables for occupational fidelity, clinical plausibility, and appropriate professional judgment. Delivering structured written feedback to improve clarity, realism, and workflow alignment prior to final submission — supporting a large-scale dataset mapping professional knowledge work across occupations for AI evaluation and training.
Stealth-Mode AI Company
Clinical AI Safety & Evaluation · Pod Lead
Remote
Leading a 40+ member clinician pod delivering human-in-the-loop (HITL) LLM evaluation for patient-facing AI. Authoring clinical rubrics and expert reviews that feed directly into model safety and retraining pipelines. Defining failure modes and safety requirements for AI outputs at the point of care — where getting it wrong has real consequences.
Wellness & Equity Alliance
Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer
Austin, TX
Founded a private-sector partner for health systems seeking to transform public health delivery to vulnerable communities. Built from two co-founders to 40+ clinical and operational staff in under twelve months, securing over $2M in government contracts, CDC funding, and NIH grants.
Curative Medical Associates / Curative, Inc.
Deputy CMO & Medical Director
Los Angeles, CA · Austin, TX
Provided clinical and operational leadership for a national COVID-19 vaccination campaign spanning 30+ physician practices across 12 states. Led a 250+ member clinical team in Texas alone, coordinating over 350K vaccinations in-state and contributing to 2M+ nationwide while generating over $50M in organizational revenue.
Independent Emergency Medicine Practice
Emergency Medicine Physician
Austin, TX & Nationwide
Practice emergency medicine independently across a network of facilities including TeamHealth, SCP Health, Victoria Emergency Associates, Shannon Health, and Austin Emergency Center. Provide telemedicine services nationally through Amwell Medical Group and Teladoc, maintaining active licenses across seven states.
“Going room to room in the ED and connecting with patients, human-to-human, reminds me every day of the why.”
Patients are the reason I build everything. Every product, every system, every organization — same end goal: improve the care delivered to those who need it most.
Harrison Lobdell IV, MD, MPH
Why I still see patients
I don't think I'll ever stop completely. Patients are the reason I build everything. Every product, every system, every organization I've created has had the same end goal — to improve the care delivered to those who need to receive it.
I want to affect change at scale. But going room to room in the ED and connecting with patients, human-to-human, reminds me every day of the why. In the emergency department you are confronted with humanity in full — its tragedy, its triumph, its struggle and its absurdity. Every shift is an unending sequence of unique scenarios. It's a rush like no other.
The best operators in healthcare are the ones who still know what it feels like to stand at a bedside. That's not nostalgia — it's an information advantage. The distance between a boardroom decision and a patient outcome is exactly where most healthcare products fail.
Harrison Lobdell IV, MD, MPH · Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine Residency
Cook County Health · Chicago, IL
Trauma Resident of the Year
Doctor of Medicine
George Washington University School of Medicine · Washington, DC
Health Services Scholarship
MPH, Molecular Epidemiology
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health · New York, NY
BA, Spanish
University of Georgia · Athens, GA
Hope Scholarship — full tuition merit award
Credentials & Licensure
- —American Board of Emergency Medicine — Board Certified (2021–2026)
- —Fellow, American Academy of Emergency Medicine (FAAEM)
- —Active Medical Licenses: TX · CA · IN · MI · UT · OH · WI
- —Advanced Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support
2020
Trauma Resident of the Year
Cook County Health, Department of Surgery
Selected from 120+ residents for outstanding clinical performance.
2021
Humanitarian Service Award
Curative Medical Associates
2022
NIH RADx-UP Community Collaboration Grant
National Institutes of Health
$55,000 · Principal Investigator
2022
CDC COVID-19 Capacity Improvement Grant
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
$150,000 · Principal Investigator
Peer-Reviewed Publications — Columbia University Medical Center
- 01
Ge F, Lobdell H 4th, Zhou S, Hu C, Berk PD. Digital analysis of hepatic sections in mice accurately quantitates triglycerides and selected properties of lipid droplets.
Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2010
- 02
Ge F, Zhou S, Hu C, Lobdell H 4th, Berk PD. Insulin- and leptin-regulated fatty acid uptake plays a key causal role in hepatic steatosis in mice with intact leptin signaling but not in ob/ob or db/db mice.
Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2010
- 03
Ge F, Hu C, Hyodo E, Arai K, Zhou S, Lobdell H 4th, et al. Cardiomyocyte triglyceride accumulation and reduced ventricular function in mice with obesity reflect increased long chain fatty acid uptake and de novo fatty acid synthesis.
J Obes. 2012
- 04
Hu C, Ge F, Hyodo E, Arai K, Iwata S, Lobdell H 4th, et al. Chronic ethanol consumption increases cardiomyocyte fatty acid uptake and decreases ventricular contractile function in C57BL/6J mice.
J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2013
- 05
Walewski JL, Ge F, Lobdell H 4th, Levin N, Schwartz GJ, et al. Spexin is a novel human peptide that reduces adipocyte uptake of long chain fatty acids and causes weight loss in rodents with diet-induced obesity.
Obesity (Silver Spring). 2014
- 06
Ge F, Walewski JL, Torghabeh MH, Lobdell H 4th, et al. Facilitated long chain fatty acid uptake by adipocytes remains upregulated relative to BMI for more than a year after major bariatric surgical weight loss.
Obesity (Silver Spring). 2016
Let's work
together.
I'm actively seeking the right collaborations — investors, co-founders, health systems, and clinical organizations ready to move fast on AI-driven healthcare.