Romain Pirracchio, MD MPH PhD

Chief Scientific Officer

Inaugural Ronald D. Miller Distinguished Professor at UCSF, Executive Vice Chair for the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at UCSF, Chief of Anesthesia at ZSGH, Associate and Statistical AI Editor at JAMA. Romain is trained as both a physician and a biostatistician (PhD in Biostatistics; MPH from Harvard), and leads a joint UCSF–UC Berkeley research lab pioneering the use of AI, machine learning, and causal inference for clinical decision support. He has authored over 240 peer-reviewed publications. Romain embodies the integration of rigorous clinical science with the advanced analytical methods that have transformed healthcare research.