Rick Kulkarni graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.S. degree in Neuroscience and obtained his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco in 1998. He completed his Emergency Medicine training in 2002 at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program. Dr. Kulkarni has 17 years of experience in Emergency Medicine and has held multiple major leadership positions throughout his career. He was the Founder and President of eResidency.com and the Director, Adult Emergency Department at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He then went on to become the Vice President/Medical Director at Medscape by WebMD before ultimately founding medtigo.

Major Administrative Leadership Positions:

• Founder & President
  medtigo, Boston, MA | 2014-present
• Program Director, Journal Watch & Medical Director, Clinical Programs
  Massachusetts Medical Society, Waltham MA | 2012
• Vice President/Medical Director
  Medscape by WebMD, New York NY | 2009-2012
• Director, Information & Technology Section of Emergency Medicine
  Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT | 2008-2009
• Medical Director, Adult Emergency Department
  Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven CT | 2006-2008
• Associate Medical Director/Medical Director
  eMedicine, Omaha NE | 2004-2009
• Associate Medical Director, Access Emergency Medicine
  McGraw Hill Publishers, New York, NY | 2005-2006
• Director of Informatics, Department of Emergency Medicine
  Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar CA | 2004-2006
• Founder & President
  eResidency.com, Boston MA | 1999-2006

Faculty Academic Appointments:

• Instructor of Medicine
  Harvard Medical School, Boston MA | 2002-2004
• Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
  UCLA- David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles CA | 2004-2006
• Assistant Professor Surgery
  Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT | 2006-2009