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Emergency physician · Researcher · Educator

Medicine.
Technology.
Human experience.

I study how artificial intelligence changes the work of medicine—and how we prepare clinicians to use it thoughtfully.

Portrait of Carl Preiksaitis
01 / Approach

New tools.
Human questions.

What happens to attention, judgment, and expertise when technology changes? I approach these questions as an emergency physician, researcher, and educator. My work connects clinical data with implementation science—the study of how new approaches become part of everyday practice.

HEAL

Human Experience and Advancement Lab

A collaborative research lab examining how artificial intelligence and digital technology reshape clinical work and training. The lab studies human–AI interaction, documentation and cognitive burden, and the ways clinicians develop expertise as technology changes around them.

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SIERRA

Stanford Integrated Emergency Research Repository and Archive

I direct research infrastructure that makes emergency care data more useful for collaborative investigation. SIERRA gives Stanford Emergency Medicine researchers a shared foundation for studying clinical care, education, and technology.

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02 / Selected work

From questions
to evidence.

Clinical work

What does ambient AI change about documentation?

A study of real-world ambient AI scribe adoption used electronic health record audit logs to compare documentation time and note characteristics across ambient and standard encounters.

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Learning & assessment

How should educators supervise AI use?

A connected series in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education offers practical ways to orient programs, supervise residents, and decide how much to trust AI in teaching and assessment.

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Research infrastructure

What can clinical data show us about learning?

Research using natural language processing examined residents’ clinical exposure and how learning curves develop across emergency medicine training.

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Carl speaking at a medical education symposium

03 / Speaking & workshops

Clear conversations about AI, work, and learning.

I speak with clinical and educational audiences about teaching in an AI-enabled world, evaluating AI’s effects on clinical work, and turning research into useful changes in practice.

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