David is a cardiac surgery resident with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. While a trainee, he has been responsible for the development of a robotic cardiac surgery program and a surgical simulation lab that has helped teach surgical skills to hundreds of medical students and junior doctors. He has published over 20 research papers and coordinated multiple randomized trials. David also co-founded Hairmop.com, an online men’s health business, and Nonok, a nonprofit helping to connect elderly people who are socially isolated. David is passionate about combining his study of math and physics with heart surgery. He wants to use his experience to help develop and integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning into cardiovascular medicine and to work toward democratizing surgery.