Physician · Scientist · Builder
Medicine ∧ Machine Intelligence
MD. Computer scientist. Cofounder, CEO @ Galen Health. Formerly clinical AI research @ Harvard Medical School, CS @ Carnegie Mellon University. Solving disease from first principles.
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I grew up on a cattle farm in Appalachian Ohio, spent two years as a missionary in South Korea, and walked on to a national-championship rugby team at BYU — then went to medical school planning to become an orthopaedic surgeon. A quiet fascination with machine learning changed that: I turned down a surgical residency for computer science at Carnegie Mellon, and now I'm in San Francisco building Galen Health — a virtual cell to solve disease from first principles.
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Galen Health
ActiveBuilding autonomous AI for disease research — a virtual cell that runs continuously, learning from biomedical data to model how disease works and how to treat it. Cancer is the first proving ground.
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