MD working at the intersection of medicine, AI, neuroscience, and nature-inspired design to build transformative healthcare solutions.
Current Work
As Chief Medical AI Officer at Scienza Health, I lead the development of AI-enabled, conversational digital humans for healthcare operations with a focus on ambient cognitive screening. My work spans 1) technical development of cloud-hosted, multimodal (e.g. voice, video, text, biometric) multi-agent orchestrations (e.g. LangChain/Graph) that connect to various clinical and wearable software tools to catalyze patient intake, postop followup, and other clinical workflows; 2) telephony, wearable audio capture, and video streaming for modality agnostic communication with digital human systems; 3) specific regulatory strategy guidance for FDA clearance of digital health software SaMD (Software as a Medical Device); 4) clinical stakeholder and partnership development with pharma, Samsung Health, and PointClickCare.
At Cortechs.ai, I developed FDA-cleared brain volumetric analysis tools, including those for supporting the assessment of Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, and brain tumor disease progression. I serve as technical advisor to several startups and academic groups, such as EpiFocus (pre-symptomatic seizure prediction using connectivity and chaos measures) and the Pitt HexAI Lab at the University of Pittsburgh.
Background
I completed my MD at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, where I helped build and scale an NLP-based patient portal message triage system called at Domi (previously R00T). I earned an MS in Biomimicry at Arizona State University. As a research fellow at the NIAID, I studied NK cell receptor dynamics under Dr. Sumati Rajagopalan and Dr. Eric O. Long. For undergraduate training, I earned a BS in biochemistry with a genetic bioinformatics focus from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying tRNA and mycobacteria under the mentorship of Dr. Susan Martinis. I had the privilege to work under Dr. PĆ„l Stenmark as part of an exchange program with Stockholm University to study structural biology and crystallography for evaluating nucleotide-based cancer drug targets.
Born and raised in Orland Park, Illinois.
Currently based in Scottsdale, Arizona šļø
Vision for the Future
"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson
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- Quantum Biology & Computing: Exploring quantum effects in biological systems to inspire next-generation health AI with real-time inference capabilities
- Biomimetic/Biomorphic System Design: Learning from nature's 3.8 billion years of R&D to create adaptive, resilient AI architectures ā fractals, membranes, gels, crystals, etc. ā e.g. neuromorphic computing
- Theragnostic Waves: Developing light and sound-based technologies that simultaneously diagnose and treat disease with high precision and safety
- Information-Theoretic Biocomputing: Understanding consciousness, neural transmission, and molecular signaling through computational lenses
- Alternative/Hybrid Computational Paradigms: Building systems that adapt and evolve like biological organisms for self-optimizing models ā biochemical, biomechanical computing.