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Usama Syed
Usama Syed is a board-certified dermatologist turned startup founder, and the co-founder and CEO of FutureClinic (YC F24), a platform that lets any licensed doctor open a chat-based digital clinic. Trained in medicine and business at Imperial College London, he moved from the UK to New York for a dermatology residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he became chief resident and later faculty. Alongside clinical work he built an audience of more than 300,000 followers as a science-first skincare creator, co-founded the education company Liberty Medics, and now runs a company describing itself as building digital clinics that are 99% AI and 1% doctor.
Belinda Tan
Belinda Tan is a physician-scientist turned serial founder who builds the missing evidence layer for wellness. An MIT-trained, UCLA MD/PhD dermatopathologist, she co-founded Science 37 to pioneer decentralized, telemedicine-enabled clinical trials, then launched People Science, a Los Angeles public-benefit company she co-leads with her husband Noah Craft. Her mission: bring the rigor of the randomized trial to the things people already use - probiotics, traditional Chinese medicine, food-as-medicine, psychedelics - so wellness can be backed by data instead of marketing.
Steve Xu
Steve Xu is a board-certified dermatologist turned medtech founder who runs Sibel Health, the Chicago company commercializing ICU-grade wearable sensors that now monitor patients in more than 20 countries. A physician-engineer trained at Rice, Harvard, and the London School of Economics, he splits his life between the clinic, the lab at Northwestern's Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, and a startup chasing a single line: Better Health Data for All.
Shaan Patel
Dr. Shaan Patel is the founder and CEO of Prep Expert, the SAT/ACT prep company that landed a $250,000 deal from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank Season 7 - one of Cuban's most profitable Shark Tank investments. He raised his own SAT score 640 points to a perfect score, then built a company that has helped 100,000+ students improve their scores and win over $100 million in college scholarships. Board-certified dermatologist, Yale MBA, USC MD - Patel turned a personal academic transformation into a $75M+ enterprise.