This Surgeon Drew City Plans as a Kid. Now He Uses AI to Redesign Healthcare.

In fifth grade, while other kids were drawing cars and airplanes, Andrew Ibrahim was flipping over his homework to sketch cities - mapping where the hospital should go, how far the school should be from the park, and deciding whether anyone would want to walk past a police station to get there. That obsession with putting pieces in the right place has shaped every chapter of his career since. Today, Andrew is a general surgeon and Chief Clinical Officer at Viz.ai, where he's helping build AI that works like the best chief resident you've ever had: flagging critical findings, cutting stroke treatment times by nearly an hour across 2,000 hospitals, and freeing doctors from the endless clicks and workarounds that drain their days. But Andrew's path was anything but direct. He got here by way of architecture school in London, inventing the visual abstract, becoming a tenured professor with 200 papers and NIH funding - and eventually, deciding all of that still wasn't enough to move the needle. We talk about why he left, what it was like testifying before Congress two weeks into his new job, and why he believes healthcare's biggest untapped resource isn't a technology — it's the people already in it. Subscribe to First in Human: - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/first-in-human/id1842644737 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3C1xG5SxPei8m2lI63WSkd Connect with Andrew on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewibrahim/ Visit Andrew's Website: https://www.surgeryredesign.com/ Visit Viz.AI's website: https://www.viz.ai/