I'm a surgeon, scientist, and writer in California.

I'm a resident physician in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of California, San Francisco and biotech investor for Bessemer Venture Partners. I'm also a cofounder of Memora Health, a growth-stage technology company automating outpatient communication for government agencies and health systems.

My research interests include:

1. Computational genomics, with applications to precision oncology, synthetic biology, and immunotherapy.
2. Modernizing regulatory and payment policy for biomedical therapeutics and digital health.
3. Health policy and economics in surgical and critical care.

Previously, I studied at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I worked on computational genomics with Eliezer Van Allen at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. I also worked on applications of machine learning to mechanical ventilation and ICU data at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

I write about health policy and medicine for Slate Magazine and health care corporate strategy on Medium. My writing has also appeared in the Washington Post, Health Affairs, POLITICO, Financial Times, LA Times, STAT, Undark Magazine, and HuffPost.

You can find me on Twitter and LinkedIn, or email me at nisarg [dot] patel [at] ucsf [dot] edu.