Tuyến Trần, MD

I came to surgery because I wanted to understand the human body at the deepest level available — and because what happens in an operating room can't be fully described in words. There is something in the combination of irreversible decisions and immediate consequences that makes me think more clearly.

Research came to me differently. I wasn't trained to do it — I was trained to operate. And when I started, I discovered that most of the tools and workflows in academic publishing were designed for people with support structures I didn't have: protected time, methodological mentors, institutional libraries.

I kept doing research anyway. Because the questions wouldn't leave me alone. And because I came to believe that if AI could make that process less inaccessible — not by replacing judgment, but by making it less opaque — then the patients at the end of the research chain benefit too.

So I started building tools. First for myself. Then I realized other clinicians were facing the same walls. I don't think of myself as an entrepreneur. I'm a surgeon trying to fill the gaps he can see.