I’m a Harvard/UC Berkeley-trained scientist and translational physician who abandoned a surgical career to become a CEO. I did it because of my abuela Sylvia. Growing up, I was close to my grandmother and witnessed her struggle to understand when her COPD was exacerbating. Home lung monitoring technologies are inaccurate or too challenging to use, leaving patients and doctors to rely only on symptoms. As a result, my grandmother died. Her experience with COPD inspired me to found Samay (“to breathe deeply” in Quechua) so that no one else should die because of misdiagnosis.
I love solving complex problems. I excel at applying my analytical skills to find unexpected connections among diverse disciplines. My life exemplifies this: I’m a Colombia Presidential* and National Merit Scholar** (top 0.1%, Valedictorian), started college at 16 and graduated at the top of my class at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, my country’s #1 medical school. After a 4-year Harvard postdoc and a brief stint in plastic surgery at UChicago, I re-trained in global health and translational medicine at the top three U.S. public schools: U Washington, UC Berkeley, and UCSF. I’ve co-led NIH-Gates-funded projects, published in NEJM, Nature, PNAS, and Genetics in Medicine, received $2.6 million in awards, raised $2.1M from investors, and was granted an “Extraordinary Abilities” green card just four years after relocating to the US (average is 8+).
Samay combines lung physiology, IoT sensors, signal processing, and AI/ML. My enduring passion for helping others motivates me to embrace any level of complexity. I enjoy questioning in service of my mission, something that practicing clinical medicine didn't encourage. So, I envision Samay as having a culture where people relish problems as gifts of discovery, where fearless nonconformists are driven by social purpose. Someone with my energy level is equipped to market our invention.
I’m a Harvard/UC Berkeley-trained scientist and translational physician who abandoned a surgical career to become a CEO. I did it because of my abuela Sylvia. Growing up, I was close to my grandmother and witnessed her struggle to understand when her COPD was exacerbating. Home lung monitoring technologies are inaccurate or too challenging to use, leaving patients and doctors to rely only on symptoms. As a result, my grandmother died. Her experience with COPD inspired me to found Samay (“to breathe deeply” in Quechua) so that no one else should die because of misdiagnosis.
I love solving complex problems. I excel at applying my analytical skills to find unexpected connections among diverse disciplines. My life exemplifies this: I’m a Colombia Presidential* and National Merit Scholar** (top 0.1%, Valedictorian), started college at 16 and graduated at the top of my class at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, my country’s #1 medical school. After a 4-year Harvard postdoc and a brief stint in plastic surgery at UChicago, I re-trained in global health and translational medicine at the top three U.S. public schools: U Washington, UC Berkeley, and UCSF. I’ve co-led NIH-Gates-funded projects, published in NEJM, Nature, PNAS, and Genetics in Medicine, received $2.6 million in awards, raised $2.1M from investors, and was granted an “Extraordinary Abilities” green card just four years after relocating to the US (average is 8+).
Samay combines lung physiology, IoT sensors, signal processing, and AI/ML. My enduring passion for helping others motivates me to embrace any level of complexity. I enjoy questioning in service of my mission, something that practicing clinical medicine didn't encourage. So, I envision Samay as having a culture where people relish problems as gifts of discovery, where fearless nonconformists are driven by social purpose. Someone with my energy level is equipped to market our invention.
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