Dr. Maria Artunduaga is a Colombian-born physician-scientist and inventor with 50+ prizes, publications in Nature, NEJM, PNAS, and Genetics in Medicine, and six issued patents. She left a surgical career to found Samay ("breathe deeply" in Quechua) after losing her grandmother to a COPD crisis. She has raised $3.7M in non-dilutive grants and private investment to build a chest wearable + AI-powered platform for respiratory health and management. Before Samay, Dr. Artunduaga completed postdoctoral studies in Human Genetics at Harvard Medical School, started a plastic surgery residency at The University of Chicago, and completed two master's degrees, one in Global Public Health at the University of Washington and another in Translational Medicine at University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco. She lives in Mountain View, California, with her husband, 6-month-old daughter and two pets. In her free time, she enjoys flamenco dancing, traveling the world and fostering diversity in and outside the workplace.
Dr. Maria Artunduaga is a Colombian-born physician-scientist and inventor with 50+ prizes, publications in Nature, NEJM, PNAS, and Genetics in Medicine, and six issued patents. She left a surgical career to found Samay ("breathe deeply" in Quechua) after losing her grandmother to a COPD crisis. She has raised $3.7M in non-dilutive grants and private investment to build a chest wearable + AI-powered platform for respiratory health and management. Before Samay, Dr. Artunduaga completed postdoctoral studies in Human Genetics at Harvard Medical School, started a plastic surgery residency at The University of Chicago, and completed two master's degrees, one in Global Public Health at the University of Washington and another in Translational Medicine at University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco. She lives in Mountain View, California, with her husband, 6-month-old daughter and two pets. In her free time, she enjoys flamenco dancing, traveling the world and fostering diversity in and outside the workplace.
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