Experience

Sanguina, Inc.

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • May 2018 - Present

  Greater Atlanta Area I am in charge of the development and commercialization of AnemoCheck Mobile, a noninvasive smartphone app for anemia screening. I have helped raise >$3M in funding (both VC and non-dilutive federal grants and prizes) to bring this product to market and have personally led development of the project from conceptual academic research at Emory University and Georgia Tech through the development of a functional smartphone app.



Georgia Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PHD Candidate

  • Aug 2013 - May 2018

  Developed a point-of-care, smartphone image analysis diagnostic for anemia (affects 2 billion people worldwide). Conducted a clinical study to validate diagnostic accuracy, preliminary results are comparable to gold standard diagnostic blood sampling tools. Publication under review. Developed mobile medical apps for multiple smartphone operating systems allowing patients to self-monitor anemia. Secured IRB approval to conduct a clinical study to evaluate diagnostic accuracy. Designed… Show more Developed a point-of-care, smartphone image analysis diagnostic for anemia (affects 2 billion people worldwide). Conducted a clinical study to validate diagnostic accuracy, preliminary results are comparable to gold standard diagnostic blood sampling tools. Publication under review. Developed mobile medical apps for multiple smartphone operating systems allowing patients to self-monitor anemia. Secured IRB approval to conduct a clinical study to evaluate diagnostic accuracy. Designed and fabricated a “Do it yourself” endothelialized microfluidic device capable of recapitulating various cardiovascular geometries for the study of hematologic diseases resulting in two first-authored publications. Show less



Immucor, Inc.

• United States
• Medical Device
• 700 & Above Employee

• R&D Systems Engineering Intern

  • Jul 2017 - Oct 2017

  Norcross, GA Facilitated crosstalk between biological assay development and hardware engineering teams and implemented software and mechanical design improvements in the development of a novel, automated red blood cell typing and antibody screening medical device and developed SOPs detailing the use of the device.

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Jun 2011 - May 2013

  Worked on a project to show that stiffened, sickled erythrocytes in sickle cell disease can cause endothelial cell dysfunction in an “endothelialized” microfluidic system – currently awaiting IRB approval for animal studies. Developed an image processing algorithm for use in a remote sickle cell disease diagnostic and complete blood counting tool.