# Casey St. Luce, MD **AI Engineer, Clinical Informatics** — San Francisco, CA, United States > Physician-trained AI engineer building EHR data pipelines and clinical AI workflows, bridging healthcare domain expertise with software development. Career Archetype: **Launchpad Trailblazer** (HS-MG) — One of the first Launchpad Trailblazers on Saywise ## Links - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/caseystluce ## Experience ### Medical Innovation — Specialist, Atropos Health (2024-08 – 2025-05) San Francisco, CA · Authored 150+ observational studies on real-world EHR data using TQL, translating clinical hypotheses into queries across ICD-9, ICD-10, CPT, SNOMED, and LOINC terminologies. Reviewed peer analysts' queries for clinical accuracy and data integrity, contributed to an internal clinical definitions library. Worked with health-system investigators and life-sciences companies to refine research questions and communicate evidence limitations. Diagnosed platform and data-pipeline issues by tracing query outputs to source records. ### Solo Founder, Whisper Health (2023-06 – 2024-03) Philadelphia, PA · Designed, built, and launched an iOS application for anonymous peer-to-peer communication among healthcare professionals. Built a SwiftUI frontend and FastAPI backend with client-side encryption to keep user email addresses off the backend. Gathered user feedback, conducted outreach, and secured grant funding through pitches to venture-support programs. ### Digital Health Scholar, Center for Health Care Transformation and Innovation @ Penn Medicine (2019-04 – 2019-08) Greater Philadelphia Area · Supported development and launch of a HIPAA-compliant mobile data-collection application for clinical research, including GPS and heart-rate collection for an Urban Health Lab study of environmental stress. Generated synthetic data for an NLP chatbot pilot focused on radiation-oncology aftercare. Supported patient consent and data collection; collaborated on planning a noise-pollution health study with Philadelphia city officials. ### Medical Student Representative, Lumos MD (2019-02 – 2020-02) Remote · Coordinated outreach for digital medical education tools among Penn medical students, achieving a reported 20% increase in user participation. Collected user feedback to inform product improvements, proposed a flashcard-generation feature, and supported educational-module development. ### Vice President of Entrepreneurship, Penn HealthX (2019-01 – 2020-01) Greater Philadelphia Area ## Education ### Doctor of Medicine - MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (2020-09 – 2024-06) H-MET Certificate in Healthcare Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology. Completed clinical training across internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, and obstetrics/gynecology. ### Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry, Temple University (2014-09 – 2018-06) Distinction in Major ## Projects ### VS Code Extension for TQL AI-assisted query language development tool · Built an internal VS Code extension using Claude Code to streamline authoring of observational-study queries in Atropos's proprietary query language. The tool achieved adoption across the analyst team and received recognition as the company's most impactful innovation. ### EHR-to-Narrative Pipeline Language-model training data preparation from clinical records · Designed and built an end-to-end Python pipeline converting structured EHR records into patient narratives for experimental language-model training with Meta. Implemented record ingestion, data transformation, and LLM-based narrative generation, translating coded clinical events into coherent patient timelines organized around clinical index events. ### Conversational Query Refinement Prototype Natural-language interface for research question definition · Designed and iterated prompts for an early internal multi-turn AI prototype helping users express research questions in natural language and refine study requirements. Owned prompt iteration for question clarification and TQL generation within a proposed self-service workflow for case series, cohort studies, and attrition diagrams. ### SHARP — Safe Haircuts as We Reopen Philadelphia PPE distribution initiative for underserved neighborhoods · Directed logistics for PPE distribution to more than 30 hair salons in underserved Philadelphia neighborhoods during the COVID-19 reopening. Coordinated with a team of 15+ members and organized weekly planning meetings. The project received institutional recognition and funding. ### Whisper Health Anonymous peer communication platform for healthcare professionals · Designed and launched an iOS application enabling anonymous peer-to-peer communication among healthcare professionals. Built a SwiftUI frontend and FastAPI backend with client-side encryption. Gathered user feedback and conducted outreach to inform product development. ### Mobile Clinical Data-Collection Application HIPAA-compliant research platform with physiological monitoring · Supported development and launch of a HIPAA-compliant mobile application for clinical research data collection. Featured GPS and heart-rate monitoring for an Urban Health Lab study examining environmental conditions and physiological stress in Philadelphia. ## Skills Artificial Intelligence (AI), Real World Evidence (RWE), Python (Programming Language), Research, Teaching, SQL, TQL, JavaScript, R, SwiftUI, FastAPI, Jupyter notebooks, GitHub, VS Code, Claude Code, EHR data transformation, LLM-based narrative generation, Prompt design and iteration, Conversational AI, Text-to-TQL generation, Real-world EHR analysis, Observational-study queries, Clinical phenotype definitions, OMOP CDM, ICD-9/10, CPT, SNOMED, LOINC, RxNorm, FHIR, HL7, Pandas, NumPy, FlutterFlow, Figma, Excel, PowerPoint, Epic, CRISPR/Cas9, PCR, Gel electrophoresis, Immunohistochemistry, Zebrafish husbandry, Clinical research, Healthcare AI, Healthcare informatics, Product design, App deployment ## Credentials - **EMT-B** — National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians --- Source: https://saywise.com/member7734 (last modified 2026-10-06T03:12:35.935Z)