The MD Class of 2026 has selected Andrew Berg, MD, a leader in medical education technology and co-founder of Sketchy, a visual learning platform used to enhance medical knowledge and clinical reasoning skills, as its graduation speaker. The ceremony takes place on Monday, May 18.
Andrew Berg, MD, is a physician, educator, and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Sketchy, a medical education company that has helped train more than 1 million medical students and health professionals worldwide. Sketchy pioneered a visual, story-based approach to learning complex medical concepts, using memorable illustrations to improve long-term retention in subjects such as microbiology, pharmacology, and clinical medicine.
Berg earned his bachelor’s degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, before completing medical school at the University of California, Irvine. He went on to complete residency training in emergency medicine at Northwestern University, where he also remained for a research fellowship focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications in medical education and clinical care. He is board-certified in emergency medicine and currently practices with Kaiser Permanente in northern California.
In addition to his clinical work, Berg focuses on the intersection of technology, learning science, and medicine, exploring how AI-driven tools can improve clinical reasoning, simulation-based training, and the future of health care education. Most recently, he created and launched DDx, an AI-driven clinical simulation platform designed to advance interactive case-based learning and clinical reasoning.