Hi, I'm Shri.
A healthcare professional
who left the clinic to fix it.
I practiced medicine for a year in India. I saw patients, wrote prescriptions, redesigned a clinic's EHR. And somewhere in that year I noticed something that wouldn't leave me alone.
The most important decisions about my patients weren't made by me. They were made by the systems around me: who gets screened, what gets covered, how data flows between a hospital and an insurer. The doctor is one node in a much larger network. I wanted to understand that network.
So I left clinical practice, moved to St. Louis, and started a dual MPH/MBA at Washington University. Since then I've done cancer survival research at Siteman, built a health‑tech product from zero with AI as a co‑architect, written a rural-hospital turnaround case for an Olin healthcare management course, and had a first-author study accepted at ASCO 2026.
The work takes a lot of shapes now: Cox models on 20 years of NHANES, a chronic‑care app built spec‑first with AI in the loop, hospital financial turnarounds, and a locally‑run AI pipeline producing long‑form health video on a single GPU. The method stays the same: spec first, locked decisions, primary sources cited, AI as a co‑builder, never a crutch.
Every project comes back to the same question: how do we make the system work better for the people inside it?
