Hassan K. Bencheqroun, MD, FCCP, MBA is a triple board-certified pulmonary and critical care physician, TeleICU leader, medical AI educator, and TEDx Temecula 2026 speaker practicing in San Diego, California.
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Dr. Hassan Bencheqroun is a Moroccan-American physician executive who practices bedside pulmonary and critical care in Southern California and leads international programs in artificial intelligence for medicine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine, and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (ABAIM), and serves as CEO of Medical AI Academy and host of the AI Ready Doctor podcast.
He is Senior Research Medical Director for the IQVIA Respiratory and Allergy Center of Excellence and Global Head of the IQVIA Respiratory and Critical Care Center of Excellence. He is Assistant Clinical Professor at UC Riverside School of Medicine, Associate Director of Tele-ICU.US Inc., and Associate Medical Director at Vituity, Desert Regional Medical Center. He sits on the CHEST Board of Regents as Member-at-Large, and delivered the TEDx Temecula 2026 talk "My Doctor."
He speaks English, Arabic, French, Spanish, and Italian, and teaches medical AI in ways that meet Arab, Muslim, Moroccan, and Middle Eastern communities in their own languages and clinical realities.
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Flagship work across critical care, medical AI, and medical education.
Expert guidance that helped ICU teams decide when and how to perform tracheostomy safely for COVID-19 patients during the first wave of the pandemic.
A journal-wide plan to make who publishes, who reviews, and who is cited in chest medicine more representative of the patients it serves.
Tested how well machine translation and AI tools carry critical care teaching across languages, a first step toward equitable global ICU education.
Awarded Best Practitioner at AIMed25 for innovation and impact in medical AI.
Why constant screens and alerts wear clinicians down, and what individuals and organizations can do about it.
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Booking & topicsArtificial memory that returns the patient's whole story to human care.Thesis of the TEDx Temecula 2026 talk "My Doctor"
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Dr. Hassan Bencheqroun is best known for bedside pulmonary and critical care and for translating artificial intelligence into practical, human-first medicine. He is CEO of Medical AI Academy, host of the AI Ready Doctor podcast, a CHEST Board of Regents member, and the TEDx Temecula 2026 speaker on "My Doctor."
Yes. Dr. Bencheqroun is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care Medicine, and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (ABAIM). He is one of a small cohort of physicians in the United States holding all four certifications simultaneously.
Dr. Hassan Bencheqroun teaches bilingual medical AI to Arab, Muslim, Moroccan, and Middle Eastern communities. As a Moroccan-American physician who speaks Arabic, French, English, Spanish, and Italian, he designs curricula that meet international clinicians in their own languages and clinical realities.
Yes. Through MedExpert Consulting, Dr. Bencheqroun accepts expert witness engagements in pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine, and ICU care, including record review, deposition, and trial testimony for plaintiff and defense counsel across the United States.
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