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

I'm a resident physician-scientist in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. I was previously a biotech investor with Bessemer Venture Partners and cofounded Memora Health, a technology company automating outpatient communication for government agencies and health systems, which was acquired by Commure.

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 care policy and markets.

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. I've also written essays for 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.