Medicine, data, and systems.
I build clinical AI that works in the real world.
Nafiseh Sami — physician-in-training, researcher, and applied healthcare AI builder.
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Research
Asking meaningful questions. Generating real-world evidence.
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Products
Building tools clinicians can trust and use.
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Teaching
Explaining clearly. Empowering others.
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Clinical Practice
Grounded in patient care. Committed to outcomes.
Selected work
A few projects at the intersection of medicine and applied AI.
About
A physician-engineer, on purpose
I'm not leaving medicine to become an engineer — I'm building the bridge between them. My path combines clinical training with AI, engineering, and healthcare product development, because the problems I care most about (diagnosis, access, decision-making at the bedside) don't get solved by choosing just one side of that line.
The long-term goal is bigger than any single project: to build an organization that helps healthcare systems adopt AI responsibly — real pipelines, real evaluation, real clinical accountability — and leave the systems I work in a little better than I found them.
Day to day, that means moving between clinical rotations, research, teaching and mentoring junior researchers, and building software — usually in intense, focused cycles rather than evenly spread days.
Where I spend my energy
Clinical Medicine
Final-year MD training, grounded in direct patient contact — the source of every problem worth solving.
Clinical AI & Engineering
Building applied AI systems for medical documentation, decision support, and precision medicine — with deterministic validation, not just model output.
Research
Systematic and scoping reviews, clinical research, and evidence-based writing — practiced in reporting-guideline-compliant methodology.
Teaching & Leadership
Leading a university research & technology committee, mentoring junior researchers, and building repeatable systems for teaching research from scratch.
Method, not just output
Systematic and scoping reviews, clinical research, and evidence-based writing — practiced in reporting-guideline-compliant methodology, alongside ongoing work in research mentoring and study design.
A list of verified publications will be added here as they're confirmed.
Peer-reviewed work
13 peer-reviewed publications · H-index 6
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Beyond the papers
A few highlights beyond the publication list — the CV download has the rest.
- 13 peer-reviewed publications, H-index 6
- Invited Peer Reviewer — BMC Medical Education and BMC Psychiatry (2026)
- Research mentor and coordinator — Research & Technology Department, Medical Student Research Committee, guiding junior researchers into early research participation
- Research Mentor, Research Institute for Functional Neurosurgery (RIFN), SBMU (Mar 2025–Present)
- Clinical trial collaborator on two phases of an intraoperative electrical lymph node scanning (ELS) study for breast cancer (Shohadaye-Tajrish Hospital; Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR)
Let's talk
Open to conversations about clinical AI, digital health products, research collaboration, or teaching. Reach out — I read everything.