Donald Wright

Donald Wright, MD, MHS, is an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. His academic roles include clinical practice and research in emergency medicine with a focus on AI-driven diagnostic tools and geriatric healthcare. He holds an MD from Vanderbilt University and an MHS from Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Wright’s research emphasizes leveraging artificial intelligence to improve diagnostic accuracy and clinical workflows in emergency settings, particularly through LLM applications like GPT-4 for HEART score calculation and deprescribing optimization.

His key research interests span emergency ultrasound techniques, risk stratification algorithms, and patient outcomes in aging populations. Notable contributions include the development of AI-based decision support systems and studies on exercise programs’ impact on hospitalization rates. He has been awarded the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Award (2024) for a cardiology decision support tool. Collaborations frequently involve multidisciplinary teams addressing diagnostic errors and clinical informatics challenges.

Dr. Wright is also involved in academic initiatives like the Yale Emergency Scholars Program, fostering emergency medicine research capacity. His work bridges clinical practice, technology innovation, and population health, with publications in Academic Emergency Medicine, Journal of Medical Internet Research, and others.