I'm a physician-scientist, founder, and writer in California.
We live in an era of discordant progress: Why is biomedical science moving at breakneck speed, while the infrastructure for healthcare delivery lags behind?
I'm a surgeon and scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, where I apply clinical genomics and machine learning to help surgeons make better treatment decisions in — or in lieu of — the operating room.
I also study how policy and economics can shorten the road between scientific breakthroughs and the patients who need them.
Earlier, I co-founded Memora Health, a care navigation company acquired by Commure, and invested in therapeutics companies at Bessemer Venture Partners. At Harvard, my graduate work applied reinforcement learning to precision oncology and identified genomic predictors of immunotherapy response in head and neck cancer.
I write about medicine, health policy, and economics, including for the Financial Times, Washington Post, and POLITICO.
Outside the hospital, I think about Tadao Ando architecture, Yirgacheffe tasting notes, prose that stops you mid-page, Federer as religious experience.