- Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine / NYU Langone Health
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine / NYU Langone Health
- Director, Health AI Research Lab, NYU Grossman School of Medicine / NYU Langone Health
- Associate Director, Neurosurgery Residency Program, NYU Grossman School of Medicine / NYU Langone Health
Dr. Eric Karl Oermann is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Radiology, and Data Science at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he practices as both a neurosurgeon and a computer scientist. His research sits at the intersection of human and artificial intelligence, drawing on insights from neuroscience to advance both medical care and AI technology.
Dr. Oermann’s academic path is unconventional by design. He studied mathematics at Georgetown University with a focus on group theory, and spent six months with the President’s Council on Bioethics exploring questions of human dignity under the mentorship of physician-philosopher Edmund Pellegrino. He subsequently left graduate studies in mathematics at UNC to pursue medicine — a pivot that reflects the integrative, boundary-crossing ethos that has defined his career.
His scholarly contributions span more than one hundred publications in machine learning, neurosurgery, and the philosophy of medicine. He has received fellowships from the American Brain Tumor Association and the Doris Duke Charitable Research Foundation, and was named to Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 for his work applying machine learning to prognostic modeling in cancer. In industry, he was recruited as an early researcher at Verily (Google Life Sciences) and contributed to Project Amber at Google X, a moonshot initiative focused on mental health. He has also founded or co-founded multiple medical AI and consumer electronics ventures, including Cadyne, Artisight, Delvi, and MarchAI.
