Jesse M. Ehrenfeld MD MPH is the president of the American Medical Association. He is also a senior associate dean, tenured professor of anesthesiology and director of Wisconsin’s largest statewide public health philanthropy organization, the “Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment” at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
  
Active in organized medicine since medical school, Dr. Ehrenfeld believes in the power of digital health and information technology to improve patient outcomes and radically transform health care for the better.  
 
Dr. Ehrenfeld is board certified in both anesthesiology and clinical informatics and has been an AMA Trustee since 2014, having served as Board Chair in 2019-20. He also is a fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Medical Informatics Association - dividing his time among clinical practice, teaching, research and directing a $560-million statewide health philanthropy. 
 
Dr. Ehrenfeld is one of the most respected national voices on digital health integration and innovation, serving as a consultant to the World Health Organization’s former Digital Health Technical Advisory Group, and co-chair of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation’s committee on AI. He previously served as co-chair of the Navy Surgeon General’s Taskforce on Personalized and Digital Medicine and as a special advisor to the 20th U.S. Surgeon General.   
 
His research, which focuses on understanding how information technology can improve surgical safety and patient outcomes, has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, and the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research.   
Dr. Ehrenfeld is also a combat veteran who deployed to Afghanistan during both Operation Enduring Freedom and Resolute Support Mission.