Dr. Shiv Rao is the CEO and Co-Founder of Abridge, the leading AI platform for clinical conversations. Abridge’s enterprise-grade AI transforms medical conversations into clinically useful and billable documentation at the point of conversation, reducing administrative burden and clinician burnout while improving patient experience. Abridge integrates seamlessly within electronic health record workflows—across care settings, specialties, and spoken languages. In 2025, Abridge was named to the Forbes AI 50 and Cloud 100 lists as well as the Fast Company Most Innovative Companies list. Abridge has also been recognized in the Fortune AI 50 list and as one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024.

Dr. Rao was also recently named as one of the 100 most influential people in AI by TIME magazine and as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare. He is a practicing cardiologist at UPMC and previously led the provider-facing investment portfolio for UPMC, where he invested in startups and helped fund a Machine Learning in Health program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Rao completed his medical education and training at the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and studied at Carnegie Mellon where he programmed virtual synthesizers and skateboarded in IMAX movies.