Clinical Informatics Current Fellows and Alumni

Marshall Frieden, MD

Marshall is from Friendswood, Texas. He attended the University of Texas at Austin for his undergraduate studies where he studied Biology before going on to complete medical school at the University of Queensland – Ochsner Clinical School in Brisbane and New Orleans.  During medical school, he performed population health research using Epic SlicerDicer, and learned how impactful clinical informatics could be in aiding and improving clinical practice. Marshall loved the food and culture of New Orleans and stayed to complete his residency in Family Medicine at East Jefferson General Hospital (EJGH) which is affiliated with Tulane University. During his residency, EJGH switched electronic health records (EHR) and saw the dramatic impact an EHR can have on a physician’s practice. Marshall actively worked with residency and hospital leadership to aid in this transition, which cemented his desire to pursue a fellowship in clinical informatics. He was also fortunate to get to participate in the implementation and research of Epic’s machine learning sepsis algorithm and a novel suite of clinical decision support tools to better detect and treat patients with sepsis at Ochsner Health during his residency. Marshall’s professional interests include improving physician wellbeing through optimizing the usability of EHR’s and the utilization of artificial intelligence in medicine to help patients and health care providers. In his free time, Marshall enjoys running, golf, travel, and attempting to surf now that he lives in the lovely coastal city of San Diego.

Nico Kahl, MD

Undergraduate: UC Santa Barbara
Medical School: UC Irvine
Residency: UC San Diego

Dr. Nicolas Kahl was born in Liguria, Italy and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. After attending the University of California Santa Barbara, he graduated summa cum laude with distinction in the major of Biology and minor of Italian Studies. During his undergraduate studies he completed an internship at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco. He worked as an emergency department medical scribe at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital for 2 years after university, which sparked his interest in the field of emergency medicine. Subsequently Dr. Kahl attended the University of California Irvine School of Medicine, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Match day brought excitement at the opportunity to pursue residency training at UC San Diego Health's Emergency Medicine program. During residency Dr. Kahl served as Chief Resident of Education, to curate and lead the weekly departmental educational conference. While training in emergency medicine amidst a global pandemic, Dr. Kahl's interest in clinical informatics and telehealth were kindled as patients and healthcare systems were forced to adapt to a revolution in virtual care. After completing his Epic Physician Power User certification during residency, he decided to pursue fellowship training in Clinical Informatics. Dr. Kahl is humbled and thrilled to have the opportunity to train in Clinical Informatics at UC San Diego Health during a dynamic era in the field. His professional interests include telehealth best practices, applied artificial intelligence in healthcare, machine learning and large language models, electronic medical record optimization, cybersecurity, lean process improvement, and medical education. He enjoys playing beach volleyball, swimming, biking, and traveling with his significant other in his free time. Dr. Kahl is an avid San Francisco Giants fan.