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  "basics": {
    "name": "Rejeesh Menon, MD",
    "label": "Academic internal medicine physician and clinical AI physician-builder",
    "email": "rejeeshmenon85@gmail.com",
    "url": "https://menon.md",
    "summary": "Academic internal medicine physician and clinical assistant professor who also builds the software his clinics run on. Ten years of inpatient medicine in U.S. community hospitals; a translational research background that took an amino-acid formulation from the Ussing chamber to a Nestle-licensed product; a seven-clinic dermatology group in India that serves as a live environment for shipping and testing clinical software. Builds solo with Claude Code CLI, writing the prompts and owning the clinical logic, the human-in-the-loop boundaries, the safety rules for what generative output may say to a patient, and the compliance decisions.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Richland",
      "region": "Washington",
      "countryCode": "US"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "WSU Faculty Profile",
        "username": "wsu",
        "url": "https://medicine.wsu.edu/directory/wsu-profile/rejeesh.menon/"
      },
      {
        "network": "Google Scholar",
        "username": "scholar",
        "url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vuCc7tQAAAAJ&hl=en"
      },
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "linkedin",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rejeesh-menon/"
      },
      {
        "network": "dermavue.com",
        "username": "dermavue",
        "url": "https://dermavue.com"
      }
    ]
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  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Pullman Regional Hospital and WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine",
      "position": "Attending Physician, Hospital Medicine, and Clinical Assistant Professor",
      "location": "Pullman, WA",
      "url": "https://medicine.wsu.edu/",
      "startDate": "2022",
      "highlights": [
        "Full-scope adult inpatient medicine.",
        "Core teaching faculty for the internal medicine residency (Best Resident Teacher of the Year, 2024).",
        "Daily Epic, Meditech and Cerner user since 2013."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Lourdes Medical Center",
      "position": "Hospitalist and Associate Director, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit",
      "location": "Pasco, WA",
      "startDate": "2019",
      "endDate": "2025",
      "highlights": [
        "Open-ICU community hospital medicine.",
        "Ran the inpatient rehabilitation unit and its care-transition and documentation processes."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Confluence Health",
      "position": "Hospitalist",
      "location": "Wenatchee and Moses Lake, WA",
      "startDate": "2016",
      "endDate": "2019",
      "highlights": []
    },
    {
      "name": "Chaplaincy Health Care",
      "position": "Hospice Physician (part-time)",
      "location": "Richland, WA",
      "startDate": "2022",
      "highlights": []
    },
    {
      "name": "DermaVue Skin & Hair Clinics",
      "position": "Co-Founder and Director",
      "location": "Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India",
      "url": "https://dermavue.com",
      "startDate": "2017",
      "highlights": [
        "Seven dermatology, cosmetology, hair-restoration and laser clinics (Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Thiruvalla, Kottayam, Kochi, Thrissur, Coimbatore).",
        "100+ clinicians and staff; 7,200+ public patient reviews.",
        "Strategy, clinical standards, product and technology; software built in-house under his direction.",
        "Medical Director of the SuperHuman Program: physician-supervised GLP-1 metabolic-health protocols with Indian BMI eligibility thresholds."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "EBC Pharmaceuticals",
      "position": "Co-Founder and Director",
      "location": "India",
      "startDate": "2017",
      "highlights": [
        "Specialty pharma serving orthopedic, rheumatology and dermatology prescribers."
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "University of Florida, Department of Radiation Oncology",
      "position": "Postdoctoral Research Scholar",
      "location": "Gainesville, FL",
      "startDate": "2011",
      "endDate": "2013",
      "highlights": [
        "Intestinal nutrient-electrolyte transport after radiation and chemotherapy; work that led to the amino-acid formulation enterade.",
        "Ussing-chamber electrophysiology, radioisotope flux, confocal microscopy and immunohistochemistry."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "volunteer": [],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "University of North Dakota",
      "area": "Residency, Internal Medicine",
      "studyType": "Residency",
      "startDate": "2013",
      "endDate": "2016"
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of Florida",
      "area": "Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Radiation Oncology",
      "studyType": "Postdoctoral fellowship",
      "startDate": "2011",
      "endDate": "2013"
    },
    {
      "institution": "T.D. Medical College, University of Kerala",
      "area": "MBBS",
      "studyType": "MBBS",
      "startDate": "2003",
      "endDate": "2009",
      "courses": [
        "Rotating internship 2008 to 2009"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "Best Resident Teacher of the Year",
      "date": "2024",
      "awarder": "WSU Pullman Internal Medicine Residency"
    },
    {
      "title": "U.S. permanent residence in the EB-1A Extraordinary Ability classification",
      "summary": "Granted on documented original contributions, publications and citations, and editorial and judging service."
    },
    {
      "title": "F1000Prime recommendation",
      "date": "2014",
      "awarder": "F1000Prime",
      "summary": "For Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2014;306:C687-C696."
    },
    {
      "title": "NSBRI SMARTCAP team award",
      "date": "2012",
      "awarder": "National Space Biomedical Research Institute"
    },
    {
      "title": "Celebration of Excellence",
      "date": "2012",
      "awarder": "UF Shands Cancer Center"
    }
  ],
  "certificates": [
    {
      "name": "American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine",
      "date": "2016",
      "issuer": "American Board of Internal Medicine",
      "url": "https://www.abim.org/verify-physician/"
    },
    {
      "name": "ECFMG Certification",
      "date": "2012",
      "issuer": "ECFMG Certification",
      "url": "https://www.ecfmg.org/"
    },
    {
      "name": "Washington physician license (active)",
      "issuer": "Washington Medical Commission",
      "url": "https://wahelms.my.site.com/s/license-search?recordId=0cEcr000000fbosEAA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Oregon physician license (active)",
      "issuer": "Oregon Medical Board",
      "url": "https://omb.oregon.gov/Clients/ORMB/Public/VerificationDetails.aspx?EntityID=1554601"
    },
    {
      "name": "California physician license (active)",
      "issuer": "Medical Board of California",
      "url": "https://search.dca.ca.gov/details/8002/A/168425/88aa87067d2d11b998290fc11480b24e"
    }
  ],
  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "Euglycemic ketoacidosis after the addition of a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist: a case report",
      "publisher": "Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases",
      "releaseDate": "2024",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.7326/aimcc.2023.0565",
      "summary": "Kanu EO, Kim DK, Menon R, Burke C, Vicknair N. doi:10.7326/aimcc.2023.0565"
    },
    {
      "name": "Glucose stimulates calcium-activated chloride secretion in small intestinal cells",
      "publisher": "American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology",
      "releaseDate": "2014",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00174.2013",
      "summary": "Yin L, Vijaygopal P, MacGregor GG, Menon R, et al.. doi:10.1152/ajpcell.00174.2013. PMID 24477233. F1000Prime recommended"
    },
    {
      "name": "Comparative evaluation of four therapeutic regimes in chikungunya arthritis: a prospective randomized parallel-group study",
      "publisher": "Indian Journal of Rheumatology",
      "releaseDate": "2009",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/S0973-3698(10)60189-6",
      "summary": "Padmakumar B, Jayan JB, Menon RMR, et al.. doi:10.1016/S0973-3698(10)60189-6. First randomized trial in chikungunya arthritis; equal contribution"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "AI-assisted development",
      "keywords": [
        "Claude Code CLI",
        "Agentic workflows"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Software",
      "keywords": [
        "TypeScript and Node (Next.js, NestJS, Astro)",
        "PHP (WordPress)",
        "Python",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "Docker",
        "Linux VPS (Hetzner, Vultr)",
        "AWS"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Health data and compliance",
      "keywords": [
        "HL7 FHIR R4 and SMART on FHIR",
        "HIPAA program design (BAA boundaries, synthetic-data development, decision-support design built to meet the FDA's non-device clinical decision support criteria)",
        "Twenty CRM, Chatwoot, WhatsApp Business API"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Clinical systems (daily attending user)",
      "keywords": [
        "Epic (2013 to present)",
        "Meditech (2016 to present)",
        "Cerner (2018 to 2021)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Research methods",
      "keywords": [
        "Ussing-chamber electrophysiology",
        "Ion-transport and radioisotope flux studies",
        "Confocal microscopy",
        "Immunohistochemistry",
        "BrdU labeling",
        "SPSS",
        "Origin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Fluent"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Clinical AI evaluation and safety roles"
    },
    {
      "name": "Medical director of clinical AI"
    },
    {
      "name": "AI research faculty"
    },
    {
      "name": "Technical cofounder"
    }
  ],
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  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "SuperHuman",
      "description": "Clinical-intelligence tool for GLP-1 and metabolic care. In pilot, 2026.",
      "highlights": [
        "What it does: Consolidates labs, wearable data and prescription history into physician-reviewed guidance.",
        "AI's role: Author of the clinical logic and the autonomy boundary, meaning what the tool decides on its own and what requires physician sign-off.",
        "Safety and compliance: Every piece of generated guidance is checked against source data during the pilot.",
        "Safety and compliance: Compliance decisions: BAA-covered data boundary, synthetic-data development, and a decision-support design built to meet the FDA's non-device clinical decision support criteria, not an autonomous diagnostic device.",
        "Deployment: Piloting inside the DermaVue clinic network."
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Next.js",
        "Supabase",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "Vultr",
        "AWS",
        "HIPAA-conscious architecture"
      ],
      "startDate": "2026",
      "roles": [
        "Designed and built"
      ],
      "entity": "DermaVue",
      "type": "application"
    },
    {
      "name": "DermaVue Clinic OS",
      "description": "Patient engagement and CRM platform. Live across seven clinics, 2025 to present.",
      "highlights": [
        "What it does: Patient messaging for all seven clinics across WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger, with automatic lead qualification into one CRM.",
        "AI's role and safety: Designed the automated responder \"Priya\", including forbidden clinical topics and red-flag escalation rules, with live log review each release.",
        "What it does: Inbound lead integration via webhooks with clinic routing and de-duplication."
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "NestJS",
        "Next.js",
        "Python",
        "Twenty CRM",
        "Chatwoot",
        "WhatsApp Business API",
        "Docker on Linux VPS"
      ],
      "startDate": "2025",
      "roles": [
        "Built and shipped"
      ],
      "entity": "DermaVue",
      "type": "application"
    },
    {
      "name": "DermaVue Commerce",
      "description": "Online store for the group's skincare line. Shipped, 2026.",
      "highlights": [
        "What it does: Search-optimized storefront with an ingredient database linking each product to the evidence behind its formulation."
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Astro",
        "Vendure",
        "PostgreSQL"
      ],
      "startDate": "2026",
      "roles": [
        "Built and shipped"
      ],
      "entity": "DermaVue",
      "type": "application"
    },
    {
      "name": "dermavue.com",
      "description": "Public clinical web platform. Live.",
      "highlights": [
        "What it does: Condition, procedure and location pages with hand-coded medical schema and answer-engine-oriented structure."
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "WordPress (PHP, hand-coded templates)",
        "Astro",
        "schema.org JSON-LD",
        "Search-indexing automation"
      ],
      "startDate": "2017",
      "url": "https://dermavue.com",
      "roles": [
        "Built and maintains"
      ],
      "entity": "DermaVue",
      "type": "application"
    }
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