Sina Bari MD
Sina Bari MD has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Barack Obama in 2016. Sina Bari arrived at his current career via a meandering route. A self-taught computer programmer, he learned UNIX networking and developed biological simulation software in high school. This early experience with computers led him to pursue a doctorate in the same field.
The High Tech Surgeon. What I learned as a Plastic Surgeon… Before I was Sina Bari MD, Director of Medical AI, I was Sina Bari MD, the intern, low man on the totem pole.
As an intern, you worked very hard taking care of patients before and after surgery so that you could get to spend some time learning to operate in the OR. The OR was the most fun place in the hospital, a humming movement of people, working in concert to do miraculous things. The OR for most interns, though, was limited to the most basic operations and for a plastic surgeon, that was often wound management.