Robert Arntfield

Robert Arntfield is a Canadian intensivist, medical educator, researcher, and entrepreneur. His specialty is in cardiorespiratory physiology, resuscitation, and the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. He is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Critical Care Ultrasound Program & Fellowship at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and is the Medical Director of the Critical Care Trauma Centre at London Health Sciences Centre. He is also the founder of the medical technology company Deep Breathe.

Education Arntfield received an undergraduate degree in computer science and biochemistry from Queen's University in 2000. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Western University in 2004. He has been board-certified in emergency medicine and critical care medicine.

Following the completion of his medical degree, Arntfield completed an ultrasound fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

Arntfield is a Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer and holds a diplomate in adult echocardiography with the National Board of Echocardiography. During the project, a study involved the real-time validation of a lung ultrasound learning model in intensive care units, demonstrating high accuracy in identifying B-line patterns in critically ill patients. This system also demonstrated high accuracy and surpassed physicians in detecting COVID-19 in lung ultrasounds. This system became the first product for his medical technology company, Deep Breathe, which he founded in 2021.

Arntfield is the founder and CEO of the medical technology company Deep Breathe. He founded Deep Breathe on the premise of democratizing medical ultrasound through increased use of point-of-care diagnostics and artificial intelligence automation. Currently, the software utilizes Deep Breathe's archive of lung ultrasound images, which is the largest in the world and spans over a decade of clinical research. His research has been published by the American College of Chest Physicians, Emergency Medical Clinics of North America, and the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.