Research, public-health analytics, biomedical innovation, and the operational and community work alongside them. Each entry describes my contribution and its scope, with a source where one is available.
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6 experiences to explore, each with its role, setting, timeline, and contributions.
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Research
Research Assistant in AI and Mental Health
University of Toronto / Unity Health Toronto collaboration
Contributed to research and evidence synthesis at the intersection of mental health and AI. The scope includes research planning, prototype evaluation, and scientific communication with attention to safety and human oversight.
Developing an exploratory public-health analytics workflow with attention to survey context, equity, privacy, reproducibility, and human interpretation. Public methods are described in two Phiz articles.
Academic venture work connecting clinical needs, workflow mapping, prototype thinking, and validation planning. MedPal, SanaPen, and AcuPoint are described as concepts or prototypes, with team contributions kept explicit.
A continuing surgical-AI research role as the lab moved from Tufts to UPMC. The work connects video annotation, model evaluation, evidence synthesis, and research coordination with clinical and technical collaborators.
Emergency Mental Health and Addictions, Homewood Health at Guelph General Hospital
Administrative coordination in an emergency mental-health and addictions setting, with careful communication and confidential information handling. This work sits within the care team’s support operations.
University of Toronto / Unity Health Toronto collaboration
Contributed to research and evidence synthesis at the intersection of mental health and AI. The scope includes research planning, prototype evaluation, and scientific communication with attention to safety and human oversight.
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Research
AI4PH Data and Analytics Intern
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health
Developing an exploratory public-health analytics workflow with attention to survey context, equity, privacy, reproducibility, and human interpretation. Public methods are described in two Phiz articles.
03
Development
Accepted to the AI Career Accelerator Program
Amii
Acceptance to an AI professional-development program.
04
Leadership
Workshop Designer and Facilitator
McMaster University
Designed and facilitated an academic workshop.
05
Development
Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition
Participation in an international student global-health case competition.
06
Development
Mary Heersink Intramural Global Health Case Competition
Attendance and learning at a health-innovation event.
10
Research
Biomedical Innovation Graduate Project Lead
McMaster University
Academic venture work connecting clinical needs, workflow mapping, prototype thinking, and validation planning. MedPal, SanaPen, and AcuPoint are described as concepts or prototypes, with team contributions kept explicit.
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Education
Master of Biomedical Innovation
McMaster University
Graduate education in biomedical innovation, including interdisciplinary academic venture work.
12
Education
Interventional Radiology Clinical Observation
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
Observed interventional-radiology workflows as an educational placement.
13
Development
Partners in Health Canada Global Health Case Competition
Student-association leadership supporting interdisciplinary learning and connection. This is an educational leadership role, not independent clinical management.
15
Research
Surgical AI Research Lead
Tufts Medical Center / UPMC
A continuing surgical-AI research role as the lab moved from Tufts to UPMC. The work connects video annotation, model evaluation, evidence synthesis, and research coordination with clinical and technical collaborators.
Tufts Medical Center May 2024–September 2026
UPMC September 2026–present
16
Research
AI Research Assistant
Tufts Medical Center
Supported surgical-video annotation and collaborative research writing in thoracic AI.
17
Leadership
Peer Mentor
College of Biological Science, University of Guelph
Peer mentoring within the College of Biological Science.
18
Operations
Unit Clerk
Emergency Mental Health and Addictions, Homewood Health at Guelph General Hospital
Administrative coordination in an emergency mental-health and addictions setting, with careful communication and confidential information handling. This work sits within the care team’s support operations.
19
Service
Youth DiverSTEAM Symposium Chaperone
Ontario Hospital Association / UHN KITE
Chaperone support at a youth STEAM symposium.
20
Service
Vaccination Clinic Volunteer
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Public Health
Volunteer support in a vaccination-clinic setting.
21
Education
Bachelor of Science, Honours, Bio-Medical Science
University of Guelph
Undergraduate education in biomedical science.
22
Service
Cashier and Front End Team Member
Longo Brothers Fruit Markets
Front-end grocery service work, retained as part of the full professional history.
23
Service
Inpatient Visiting Program Volunteer
Guelph General Hospital
Volunteer participation in an inpatient visiting program.
24
Education
Secondary Education
Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute
Secondary education retained in the complete résumé.
25
Research
AI Research Assistant
Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital research collaboration
Dates not specified
Supported robotic-thoracic-surgery research through literature synthesis and video-annotation work with clinical and technical collaborators.
26
Service
Volunteer Spanish–English Medical Translator
Dates not specified
Volunteer language support in a community medical practice.
27
Leadership
Case Competition Marketing Executive
STEM Students Guelph Support Association
Dates not specified
Student-association communications and case-competition marketing.
28
Leadership
Discovery Mentor
UofT Discovery
Dates not specified
Mentoring within the UofT Discovery program.
29
Service
National Outreach Volunteer
American Lung Cancer Screening Initiative
Dates not specified
Volunteer outreach for a lung-cancer-screening education initiative.
30
Service
RBC Olympic Training Ground Regional Qualifier Volunteer
Canadian Sport Institute Ontario
Dates not specified
Volunteer event support at a regional qualifier.
31
Development
Brainterns Neurosurgery Program Participant
Lenox Hill / Northwell Health
Dates not specified
Remote educational participation in a neurosurgery learning program.
32
Education
Family Medicine Observation
Dates not specified
Educational observation in family medicine.
Publications, abstracts, and writing
Transformers in surgical artificial intelligence: A domain-stratified, study-level narrative review
2026 · JTCVS Open · journal narrative review
Co-authored a narrative review of transformer-based surgical AI. The synthesis considers where comparisons are meaningful and what validation remains necessary before clinical use.
Jupyter, VS Code, Kubeflow, configuration-driven scripts, GitHub Actions, pull requests, provenance documentation, and synthetic testing.
Exploratory public-health analytics
Data dictionaries, eligibility and routing-aware preprocessing, missingness analysis, mixed data, FAMD, clustering, model comparison, robustness checks, privacy suppression, and equity review.
Data visualization and scientific communication
Persona profiles, UMAP and t-SNE views, scientific figures, technical documentation, plain-language interpretation, presentations, and offline HTML materials.
Surgical computer vision
CVAT and Mosaic; anatomy, instrument, phase, and step annotation; dataset curation and harmonization; segmentation evaluation; research involving Mask R-CNN and XMem.
React, TypeScript, Vite, HTML/CSS, Canvas 2D, Framer Motion, responsive interfaces, reusable components, and MkDocs. MedPal work also includes Next.js and Supabase.
AI-assisted development with human review
Agent-supported research, coding, documentation, and iteration, with human review and explicit limits on what generated outputs establish.
Biomedical innovation methods
Needs assessment, stakeholder interviews, requirements, user journeys, wireframing, patient and clinician UX, CAD and 3D modelling, early prototyping, usability walkthroughs, risk analysis, market assessment, business models, pitching, and implementation planning.
Research and evidence synthesis
Literature searching and screening, systematic-review support, narrative reviews, biostatistics, experimental design, protocol development, scientific writing, abstracts, manuscripts, tables, figures, ethics submissions, and interdisciplinary coordination.
Healthcare operations and governance research
Biomedical foundations, hospital administration, confidential documentation, PHIPA-related workflows, escalation processes, FDA and Health Canada pathway research, reimbursement and intellectual-property concepts, and project-level NIST AI RMF documentation.
The career record also includes PCR, gene sequencing, cell culture, histology, and LLM fine-tuning. These are retained as source-reported experience rather than a current proficiency rating.
