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United States

United States

Practicing primary care physician and researcher developing AI tools to solve real-world problems in healthcare.

• With support of attending physician, lead teams of multiple first-year physicians and medical students caring for up to 20 hospitalized patients• Provide direct primary care at two outpatient clinic sites: Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University

• Led design and development of patient and clinician software to enable safer and more flexible methadone treatment for patients with opioid use disorder• Managed day-to-day operations of design and software development teams• Negotiated all employment contracts and multiple investment contracts on behalf of company• As part of the founding team: developed go-to-market strategy, established academic and commercial partnerships, and raised over $1.5 million in investment prior to transitioning out of position to pursue residency training full-time

Austin, Texas, United States

• Prepared data briefs on key COVID-19-related legislative topics for Texas policymakers• Provide general guidance regarding analyses for topics identified as highly important by legislators• Remain involved presently as Advisory Committee Member

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Volunteer Work with Dallas Fire-Rescue: • Synthesized 10 years of geospatial data to identify areas with slowing ambulance and fire response times• Provided specific operational recommendations for organization leadership based on analysisVolunteer work with North Texas Alliance to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy in Teens:• Built analysis to help set goal teen birth rate targets for 2022 and 2025 for City of Dallas-sponsored campaign “Talk about It Dallas” • Created interactive tool highlighting areas with highest teen birth rates in all major Texas cities• Developed interactive visualization (link below) identifying specific high-risk roadway sections across Texas and California that may be ideal targets for safety interventions, with op-ed published in Dallas Morning News (link below)• Investigated relationship between county-level healthcare and socioeconomic characteristics and prescription opioid overdose rates, results presented at the North American Primary Care Research Group• Provided freelance data visualization services for large public relations firm

Boston, Ma

• Led analysis for multiple projects evaluating real-time chronic and infectious disease rates using a distributed data network of 1.4 million patients• Coordinated team for nationwide sepsis surveillance analysis scaled to 400+ hospitals at 7 partner institutions with 3 million patient admissions• Designed study methods, implemented descriptive, causal, and predictive analyses, and translated results for grant deliverables and peer-reviewed manuscripts

Lehi, Ut

• Managed early-stage product development for new consumer-facing smart home health and safety device

Doctor Of Medicine - Md

History And Science (Computer Science)

Summer Study - Latin American Literature And Spanish Language