Rohaid Ali, MD

Dr Rohaid Ali serves as Chief Resident in the Department of Neurosurgery at Brown University Health, where he has emerged as a global leader in integrating artificial intelligence into clinical care. A graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine, his research, published in leading journals including The New England Journal of Medicine’s NEJM AI, JAMA Surgery, and Nature Digital Medicine, has helped improve informed consent processes and healthcare accessibility for over 30,000 patients annually. As one of OpenAI’s Trusted Partners and a recipient of their Exceptional Health Research Grant, Dr Ali’s work on AI-assisted voice reconstruction for patients with neurological conditions has been covered by The Associated Press, NBC Nightly News, and The New York Times, among others. His contributions have been recognized at the White House and United Nations, and he has delivered invited lectures at Harvard Medical School, the Mayo Clinic, and the 2024 Spine Summit plenary session. His clinical interests encompass minimally invasive, oncologic, and robotic spine surgery, with contributions to endoscopic techniques published in multiple peer-reviewed journals.

Upon completing residency in 2025, he will become the inaugural spine surgery fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School, training at both Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Notable Papers:

• “Using ChatGPT to Facilitate Truly Informed Medical Consent” – NEJM AI (2024)
• “Demographic Representation in 3 Leading Artificial Intelligence Text-to-Image Generators” – JAMA Surgery (2024)
• “Bridging the literacy gap for surgical consents: an AI-human expert collaborative approach” – NPJ Digital Medicine (Nature Publishing) (2024)
• “Reclaiming Voice with AI” – NEJM AI (2024)

Notable Awards:

• OpenAI’s Exceptional Health Research Grant (1 of 10 worldwide) (2024)
• Dean’s Teaching Award, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (2024)
• OpenAI Trusted Partners Program (one of ~100 worldwide) (2024)
• Editor’s Choice, Neurosurgery (2023)
• CNS Julius Goodman Resident Award, Congress of Neurological Surgeons (2022)

Media Coverage (select):

• Covered by The Associated Press, NBC Nightly News, ABC Boston, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Time, Fox News, NY Post, The Guardian and more for work on AI-assisted voice reconstruction (2024)
• Featured Guest on NEJM AI Grand Rounds Podcast (2024)
• Interviewed on NPR for work published in JAMA Surgery (2023)
• Featured twice by the Boston Globe (2023)