Eric S Rosenthal, M.D.

Eric S. Rosenthal, MD is director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, director of the MGH Neurosciences Data Science and AI Center, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has a faculty appointment in the MGH Center for Neurotechnology and NeuroRecovery (CNTR).

Through the National Institutes of Health, he serves as the co-chair of the NIH Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) Steering Committee, a program initiated by the NIH Office of the Director. 

Dr. Rosenthal's specific academic focus is discovering and validating physiologic biomarkers, designing clinical trials guided by brain monitoring, and developing infrastructure for Clinical Care AI. His work has focused on identifying approaches to improve recovery from coma after status epilepticus, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Rosenthal additionally serves as co-chair of the joint American Epilepsy Society / Neurocritical Care Society Status Epilepticus Guideline Committee, as member of the Curing Coma Campaign's Scientific Advisory Council, member of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society’s Critical Care EEG Terminology Committee, member of the NORSE/FIRES Consensus Treatment Guideline Committee, Co-PI for the ELECTRO-BOOST study and Contact PI for the "NIH Bridge2AI for Clinical Care Program" in the ChORUS Network, which focuses on cultivating the patient engagement, training and workforce development, computing, ethics, and data generation necessary to support large-scale AI initiatives. 

Dr. Rosenthal graduated from Yale College, Harvard Medical School, the Harvard/Partners Neurology Residency Training Program, and the MGH/BWH/Harvard Neurocritical Care Fellowship Training Program.