Nicholas Stark
Director of Clinical Innovation & Research
Background
Dr. Nicholas Stark is a board-certified emergency physician and healthcare innovation leader focused on making acute care safer, more humane, and easier to navigate for patients and families. His work bridges frontline emergency medicine, clinical operations, and digital health design, with a strong emphasis on person-centered care and practical quality improvement. He completed dual MD and MBA training at Georgetown University and has led physician-driven innovation initiatives across emergency medicine. At Lotus Health, Dr. Stark supports clinical innovation and evidence-focused clinician oversight in responsible AI-enabled care workflows.
Education
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
Affiliation
UCSF Health
US Acute Care Solutions
Lotus Health
Expertise
Emergency Medicine
Publications
Humanistic Charting: Empowering Person-centered Emergency Care Through Reimagining the Electronic Health Record
Compass for antibiotic stewardship: using a digital tool to improve guideline adherence and drive clinician behaviour for appendicitis treatment in the emergency department
Designing clinical guidelines that improve access and satisfaction in the emergency department
Discharge Navigator: Implementation and Cross-Sectional Evaluation of a Digital Decision Tool for Social Resources upon Emergency Department Discharge
How psychological safety and feeling heard relate to burnout and adaptation amid uncertainty
Unprecedented Training: Experience of Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
HackED! Empowering Emergency Physicians in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
EM Innovation Collaborative - An interview with Nicholas Stark, MD, MBA & Zaid Altawil, MD
Design Thinking in Emergency Medicine (SAEM Pulse primer)
Medical Disclaimer
Lotus Health Medical is a licensed medical practice. Our practicing physicians are licensed in the states where they provide care through the Lotus platform.
Aravind Mani
MD, MBA
UCLA Health
Neil Bhalerao
MD
Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center
Katrina Stime
MD
UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine
Rishi Kumar
DO
CPMC Van Ness Campus
Nicholas Stark
MD, MBA, FACEP
UCSF Health
Sonny (Gurpinder) Gill
MD
Harvard Medical School
Varinderjit Kaur
MD
UCSF Health Hyde Hospital
Adam Shurbaji
MD
CPMC Mission Bernal Campus
Dominic Picetti
MD, FACP
Sutter Health
Henry Liu
MD
Sutter Health California Pacific Medical Center
Adetunji Williams
MD
Suburban Hospital - Johns Hopkins Medicine
KJ Dhaliwal
Founder & CEO
Zekka Nelson
Founder & CTO
Aidan Cole
Founding Chief Growth Officer (ex-Underlining, ex-Dil Mil)
Lukas Nel
Founding AI Engineer (CS @ Yale)
Daniel Fleury
Founding Technical Staff (CS & Cognitive Science @ Johns Hopkins)
Nicholas Stark, MD
VP Clinical Strategy (MD @ Georgetown, EM @ UCSF)
Aravind Mani, MD
VP of Medical Affairs (MD @ Stanford, Internal Medicine @ UCLA)
Varinderjit Kaur, MD
Head of Clinical Operations (Internal Medicine @ USF Morsani, UCSF Hyde)
Zili Shen, PhD
Member of Technical Staff (Yale PhD)
Marcell Borhi
Research Engineer (CS @ IU, Biostatistics Graduate @ Berkeley)
Merrick Poon
Senior iOS Engineer (ex-Tinder)
