Dallas, Texas, United States
I’m a practicing hospitalist with over 15 years of experience caring for patients across acute, complex, and high-risk medical settings. I genuinely enjoy hospital medicine, particularly being present for patients during periods of acute illness, uncertainty, and transition. Much of my work has centered on taking the time to ensure patients understand what happened during their hospitalization, why changes were made, and what they need to do after discharge to support recovery and long-term health. Over the course of my career, I’ve seen the same failure repeat itself across hospitals, clinics, and health systems: medication lists that are outdated, incomplete, or internally inconsistent. Despite good intentions and significant effort from clinicians, these gaps continue to drive patient confusion, downstream errors, and avoidable readmissions. I co-founded Ventralink to address this problem at its root. Ventralink is building a patient-verified medication list that persists across care transitions and can be shared with clinicians without adding workflow burden. The goal is to improve medication safety, reduce rework and callbacks, and close care gaps that emerge when responsibility for medication accuracy dissolves between settings. My work sits at the intersection of frontline medicine, health system operations, and healthcare technology. I bring a clinician’s perspective to system design focusing on real-world constraints, safety, and practicality rather than theory or dashboards. I received my M.D. from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and currently practice hospital medicine in Dallas, Texas. I’m especially interested in care transitions, medication safety, and building infrastructure that quietly improves outcomes without creating more work for clinicians.
Medication lists are one of the most unreliable parts of the health record. Across care settings, they are frequently outdated, incomplete, or internally inconsistent: containing wrong doses, duplicate therapies, or medications patients stopped taking long ago. These failures don’t stem from lack of effort. They arise from fragmented systems, time-pressured workflows, and the absence of a clear source of truth as patients move across settings. Ventralink is building a patient-verified medication list that persists across care transitions and can be shared with clinicians without adding workflow burden. The goal is to improve medication safety, reduce downstream callbacks and confusion, and close care gaps that contribute to avoidable utilization. Currently piloting with primary care and concierge practices in Texas, with plans to expand into broader health system partnerships.