Industry & Collaboration
Clinical perspective for teams building in surgery, imaging, and care delivery
I'm a practicing academic spine neurosurgeon with an interest in how imaging, workflow, decision-making, and technology intersect in real clinical environments. I'm open to thoughtful conversations with teams working on problems I understand — and I'm selective about where I spend time outside of patient care and academic work.
Areas of Interest
The areas where clinical perspective is most useful tend to be those closest to the operating room and the decisions surrounding it.
Intraoperative imaging and navigation
Spine workflow and clinical systems
Surgical decision-making
Revision surgery and complex reconstruction
Motion-preserving and selected modern techniques
Surgeon-facing tools
Who I'm Open to Talking With
Medical device and imaging companies
Teams developing hardware, implants, or imaging systems used in or around the operating room.
Clinical software and workflow teams
Groups building tools that touch surgical planning, documentation, scheduling, or intraoperative decision support.
Founders and product leaders
Early-stage teams looking for clinical perspective on real problems before building.
Research and academic collaborators
Investigators interested in joint work on imaging, workflow, or surgical outcomes.
How I Can Be Helpful
I'm most useful when conversations are grounded in specific clinical problems rather than abstract strategy.
Clinical framing of real-world problems
Workflow and usability feedback
Imaging and OR constraint discussion
Early concept and product feedback
Collaboration on writing or research
Selective advisory conversations
Perspective
The most meaningful innovation in medicine comes from understanding clinical problems deeply — not from applying technology for its own sake.
My interest is in practical, evidence-grounded work that improves surgical care. I'm drawn to teams that start with real clinical problems, respect the complexity of the operating room, and value the perspective of surgeons who use these tools every day. I'm not interested in hype, and I'm cautious about technology that adds complexity without clear clinical benefit.
Selected Signals
Board-certified academic spine neurosurgeon
Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Medical Center
MD & PhD — Weill Cornell Medical College
Residency — University of Southern California
Fellowship — Barrow Neurological Institute
Editor, Global Spine Journal
Publications spanning spine surgery, imaging, neuroscience, and technology
Interested in a conversation?
If you're working on something relevant and think a clinical perspective would be useful, I'm happy to hear from you.