About

I'm a doctor at heart, and these days spend most of my time working where medicine, technology, and possibilites meet. I love doing work that makes a real difference to people's lives. To make lives better, simpler, and more enjoyable.

I studied and practiced medicine in the UK and have since explored different sides of healthcare, technology, and business along the way. There's a lot of untapped potential between these areas and it's exciting to find the value in making them work together.

To keep a calm mind I play tennis, do leatherworking, and get out in nature regularly whether that be gardening, hiking or something else.

Experience

I joined Every Cure, a USA-based non-profit led by David Fajgenbaum, focused on finding new treatments for diseases with drugs already approved for another disease, called repurposing. I joined in second month of real operations initially in the Technology Team to help build our predictions and manage funder relationships, and then moved to Medical Team to focus on what treatments we develop. You can read about my contributions in the New Yorker (The New Yorker - Can AI Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases - Using Drugs we Already Have?).

After leaving clinical medicine I worked at McKinsey & Company as a consultant where I helped large groups, mainly in healthcare and technology, with longer term transformations.

I practiced medicine in the UK across a range of specialities, mainly surgical, and was regularly involved in research and helping departments be safer and more effective. If I had stayed, I probably would have trained as an ENT surgeon (ResearchGate Profile).

During medical school, I noticed a gap in the resources available doctors choosing which hospital to work at through the national recruitment system (The Foundation Programme) and built ukfpmap.com. This was a Glassdoor.com style employee resource for doctors to better choose what hospital they wanted to work at which became endorsed by The Foundation Programme after only a few months and granted me a spot on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (ukfpmap.com via Internet Archive).

I studied Medicine at Brighton & Sussex Medical School in the UK and a Master's in Healthcare Management and Commissioning, to better understand how hospitals were run and services were paid for as effective operations is as important to delivering good care as the medicine. My dissertion was understanding burnout in surgeons (dissertation repository).