Farrukh N. Jafri, MD, PhD, MS-HPEd, FACEP, is an Adjunct Professor at the Mass General Brigham Institute of Health Professions, where he teaches in the Health Professions Education PhD program. He is also Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Medical Director of WPH Cares, the Transitional Care and Population Health program at White Plains Hospital, part of Montefiore Health System.
A board-certified emergency physician, Dr. Jafri has built his career at the intersection of simulation-based education, quality improvement, and implementation science. He earned his MD from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook, completed emergency medicine residency at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s–Roosevelt, where he served as chief resident, and holds an MS and a PhD in Health Professions Education from the MGH Institute of Health Professions. He completed a performance improvement fellowship at Montefiore and is currently a fellow in the Albert Einstein Biodesign and Innovation Fellowship.
At WPH Cares, Dr. Jafri leads a 22-person interdisciplinary team delivering telehealth transitional care, remote patient monitoring, clinical pharmacy services, and community programs such as Food Is Medicine. He chairs the hospital’s Readmissions and Medication Reconciliation Task Forces and serves on its AI Steering Committee, and he has helped implement tools including a real-time AI coach for telehealth encounters and AI-powered patient simulation for communication training.
He has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications on translational simulation, remote monitoring, telepharmacy, and transitional care. He serves as Associate Editor of Simulation in Healthcare and Assistant Editor of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, and he enjoys mentoring students and trainees interested in improving how care is delivered.
BA, History, New York University, New York, NY, 2003
MD, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 2009
Emergency Medicine Residency, Mount Sinai St. Luke's / Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY, 2009–2012 (Chief Resident, 2012)
MS, Health Professions Education, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA, 2019
Performance Improvement Fellowship, Montefiore Center for Performance Improvement, Bronx, NY, 2022
PhD, Health Professions Education (Implementation Science), MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA, 2026
Biodesign and Innovation Fellowship, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY (in progress)
- Transitional care and population health
- Implementation science
- Simulation-based education and translational simulation
- Healthcare quality improvement and patient safety
- Artificial intelligence implementation in clinical care and health professions
education - Remote patient monitoring and telehealth
- Clinical pharmacy and medication management
- Biodesign and healthcare innovation
- Emergency medicine
Selected publications
Selected presentations
Case Study Presenter (with Verbal AI): Real-Time AI Coaching in Telehealth Transitional Care. Plug and Play Health Selection Day, Google, New York, NY. September 2026.
Oral Presentation: Enhancing the Patient-Provider Encounter Through Real-Time AI: A Quality Improvement Study of an AI Coach in Telehealth Transitional Care. 9th Annual Virtual Healthcare in the Mainstream Symposium and Research Forum, New York, NY. October 2026.
Panelist: Food as Medicine: A Special Hunger Action Month Panel. Feeding Westchester, Elmsford, NY. September 2026.
Conference Speaker: The SIM-QI Framework: A Practical Blueprint for Embedding Simulation into Quality Improvement Infrastructure. 10th Annual Mount Sinai TriState Simulation Symposium, New York, NY. 2026.
Speaker: Building Virtual Environments. Harvard Macy Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA. April 2022.
