Writing

Essays

• Expert Medical Care for Everyone

  What an AI doctor would have to do, what the current evidence supports, and which questions are still open.

  August 2026
• Learning to Execute

  Learning to read code, write every day, cut losses, and build the infrastructure that made the first research projects possible.

  The First Decade of Research, part 1 · December 2025
• Recognizing Good Problems

  How reading, mentors, timing, and repeated exposure helped me develop better judgment about which problems were worth pursuing.

  The First Decade of Research, part 2 · December 2025
• Making People Care

  What I learned about framing a problem, writing clearly, and showing why a piece of research matters.

  The First Decade of Research, part 3 · December 2025

Opinion and perspectives

Pieces I wrote or led as first or senior author, in journals and the press.

1. Humanoid robots in the operating room: a framework for staged integration of embodied AI in surgery npj Digital Medicine · Perspective · July 2026
2. Pancreatic Cancer AI: The Need for Prospective Outcome Studies Radiology · Editorial · June 2026
3. A clinical environment simulator for dynamic AI evaluation Nature Medicine · Perspective · March 2026
4. Coordinating health AI to prevent defensive escalation The Lancet · Perspective · November 2025
5. The Financial, Operational, and Clinical Advantages of Generalist Radiology AI Radiology · Review · September 2025
6. The generative era of medical AI Cell · Review · July 2025
7. Coordinated AI agents for advancing healthcare Nature Biomedical Engineering · Comment · April 2025
8. Multimodal generative AI for medical image interpretation Nature · Perspective · March 2025
9. The Robot Doctor Will See You Now The New York Times · Opinion · February 2025
10. A clinical certification pathway for generalist medical AI systems The Lancet · Perspective · January 2025
11. Reimbursement in the age of generalist radiology artificial intelligence npj Digital Medicine · Perspective · December 2024
12. The MAIDA initiative: establishing a framework for global medical-imaging data sharing The Lancet Digital Health · Comment · January 2024
13. The Current and Future State of AI Interpretation of Medical Images New England Journal of Medicine · Review Article · May 2023
14. Foundation models for generalist medical artificial intelligence Nature · Perspective · April 2023
15. AI in health and medicine Nature Medicine · Review Article · January 2022