Dr. Shiv Rao is the Founder and CEO of Abridge, a generative AI platform that unburdens clinicians from clerical work such as clinical documentation. It integrates directly within EHR clinician workflows, working across care settings, specialties, and spoken languages. Abridge was recently named to the Fortune AI 50, Forbes AI 50, the Forbes Cloud 100, and to TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024 list.

Dr. Rao  was also recently named as one of the 100 most influential people in AI by TIME magazine. He is a practicing cardiologist at UPMC, and previously led the provider-facing investment portfolio for UPMC, where he invested in startups and helped fund a Machine Learning in Health program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Rao completed his medical education and training at the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and studied at Carnegie Mellon where he programmed virtual synthesizers, and skateboarded in IMAX movies.