I'm a gastroenterologist and clinician-educator at the University of Toronto and Scarborough Health Network. I spent 15 years at St. Michael's Hospital doing endoscopy, teaching residents, running simulation research, and eventually directing the GI training program. In 2023 I moved to SHN to help stand up the clinical teaching infrastructure for our large expansion as the clinical site of SAMIH, a collaborative integrated health program between the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus. I've published 120+ papers, mostly on how people learn to do procedures and what happens when they don't. I build student programs like the Summer of Vibes working with Dr. Joshua Landy. More recently I've been thinking about what happens to all of that when AI enters the picture and am building around that.
I came up through clinical medicine and got pulled into teaching early. That turned into simulation research, then competency assessment, then program direction, then administration. Each layer gave me a different view of the same problem: how do you actually know when a physician is ready to practice independently, and how do you build systems that get them there?
That question has taken on a completely different shape now that AI is here. The physician's role is changing. Tasks we spent years training people to do are becoming automatable. Diagnosis, image interpretation, documentation, evidence synthesis. If AI can do these things faster and more reliably, then what exactly are we training physicians to be? That is not a hypothetical question anymore. It is the central question in medical education.
I think about this on three levels. First, how AI is redefining the physician role itself and what competencies actually matter going forward. Second, how we teach within this new reality, where trainees will work alongside AI from day one of residency. And third, how AI can be used to completely reframe what medical school and medical education look like, from assessment to curriculum design to the structure of clinical training. That is what I am building toward.
I write a Substack series on AI in medical education. Topics include how AI is reshaping the physician role, the apprenticeship model under pressure from AI-augmented training, faculty development as the bottleneck, self-assessment and competency in the age of automation, and practical AI tooling for trainees and educators.
120+ publications total. Full list on Google Scholar, ORCID, or groverlab.ca.
