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 to deliver it barely moves at all?
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 spent time as a biotech investor 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, Federer as religious experience.