About

I studied neuroscience and Spanish at UCLA and spent four years in a brain-mapping lab, where my honors thesis covered a bio-polymer hydrogel that promotes axonal regeneration in ischemic stroke models. At UCLA I also led commercialization teams at the Business of Science Center. Dartmouth came next, a master’s in healthcare management and bioinformatics, where I was president of the Graduate Student Council, followed by business and marketing work for the Association of MD/MBA Programs and a mental-health app I founded, MindFull Technologies. I earned an MBA at Kelley while working full time. Law school at Wisconsin followed, on a full-tuition merit scholarship, with a clinic year as a student attorney for startups and a summer as a law associate in commercial litigation. Medicine came last. I’ve taught the MCAT since 2015 and the LSAT since 2022.

In each field I check whether a claim traces to its source. At Rajaii Consulting I wrote a regulatory feasibility assessment in which every claim traces to an FDA, PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov or USPTO source, and Substrate checks its own database before it asserts a fact about its history.¹Public recordIt checks its own database before it asserts a fact about its historyThe engineering record
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At the UCLA Mobile Clinic, as at La Clinica Latina and the Venice Family Clinic, I interpreted in Spanish and helped uninsured patients find their way through care. At UCSF I study a safety-net soft tissue infection service that sees more than five hundred patients a year, and I’m first author on both manuscripts about it, one on its implementation and one on its costs and social return.

I speak English, clinical Spanish and conversational Farsi, and I’m of Iranian heritage. I’m based in Bloomington, Indiana, where the company is headquartered.