Harsh G. Pathak, M.D., is the clerkship director for emergency medicine in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. He is a board-certified emergency physician, educator and researcher with experience teaching resident physicians and medical students, providing clinical care in high-acuity emergency settings and leading innovation in emergency medicine education. He serves as adjunct faculty, meeting regularly with resident physicians to provide bedside ultrasound instruction and clinical education.

In collaboration with clinical administration, he has helped develop and implement a credentialing pathway that enables resident physicians to gain access to artificial intelligence documentation scribe software after demonstrating documentation competency guided by both Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Milestones and American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) Key Skills and Abilities (KSAs). He also helps create and implement a clinical case review curriculum through morbidity and mortality conferences with departmental and institutional leadership.

Dr. Pathak serves as core faculty and research director within HCA Healthcare Graduate Medical Education in Houston, where he mentors resident physicians and faculty, develops research and journal club curricula and supports scholarly activity and quality improvement initiatives. In these roles, he advances medical education through structured academic programming and evidence-based practice.

His academic interests include emergency medicine education, clinical reasoning, digital health, clinical informatics, healthcare innovation and the intersection of law and medicine. He is particularly interested in improving documentation practices to manage risk in emergency medicine and the application of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to enhance patient care, health care systems and medical education.

Previously, Dr. Pathak completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also completed a Digital Medicine Focused Advanced Specialty Training (FAST) pathway. During residency, he developed educational and technology-driven initiatives in emergency medicine and founded Digital Doctor, an artificial intelligence-powered emergency department patient screening platform designed to improve patient communication, clinical efficiency and throughput. The work earned first place in the Johns Hopkins HEXCITE medical software pitch competition.

He has also been involved in health care innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives, including serving as a co-founder and special advisor for cross-campus collaboration for HopStone Capital, the first student-run venture capital fund at Johns Hopkins University. He has contributed to early-stage health care technology advising and collaborated with multidisciplinary teams through the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on projects involving artificial intelligence and point-of-care ultrasound.

Dr. Pathak received his Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering, summa cum laude, from Rutgers University School of Engineering and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He has extensive experience teaching and mentoring learners across levels, including medical students, physician assistant students and resident physicians.