About My Doctor Friend
We're on a mission to transform the raw intelligence of AI into a trusted health guidance system. Our vision is to empower everyone to move through their health journeys with clarity, confidence, and agency.
The Problem I Saw
Patients left my office with questions, waited weeks for follow-ups, and made healthcare decisions in isolation. Traditional symptom checkers provided static lists, not the nuanced guidance patients actually needed.
The Vision
What if AI could provide the kind of evolving, contextual health guidance that good doctors give? Not replacing physicians, but extending their care into the spaces between appointments.
The Solution
My Doctor Friend doesn't just analyze symptoms: it understands how they evolve, learns from each interaction, and provides the kind of thoughtful guidance that helps patients feel confident about their health decisions.
Our Mission
The democratization of medical knowledge is here, powered by AI. It's an exciting and perilous moment: people have more access to expertise than ever, but without the right tools, that knowledge can confuse as much as it empowers.
Just as GPS was a profound technology that became truly transformative only when shaped into tools like Google Maps, we believe AI must be designed into experiences people can actually use. Our mission is to transform the raw intelligence of AI into a trusted health guidance system that empowers people to move through their health journeys with clarity, confidence, and agency.
What Drives Us
The principles that guide every decision we make
Democratize expertise
High-quality medical reasoning shouldn't live only behind a paywall; putting it "where the patient is" gives people structure, memory, and agency in moments when they need it most.
Health is a continuous story
Illness is not an isolated episode. Our tools listen and link every symptom, visit, and recovery step into one evolving narrative so nothing important slips through the cracks.
Radical transparency about uncertainty
By surfacing condition probabilities and confidence levels, we show users exactly what the AI knows (and doesn't), turning gray areas into safer, shared decisions.
Safety first, always
From triage through monitoring, every feature is built to spot worrisome signals early and escalate appropriately: digital guidance must never overstep the need for in-person care.
Human connection at the center
Structured summaries and visit prep free up clinicians to think, not transcribe, making every encounter more personal, efficient, and effective.
Empower personal advocacy
We view each user as the lead diagnostician in their own life. Clear insights and next steps help them ask better questions and navigate the system with confidence.
Founders
Michael Turken, MD, MPH
Founder & CEO
Internist at UCSF • Ex-Google, Forward Health & Omada Health
Michael is a practicing physician with extensive experience in both clinical medicine and health technology. He combines deep medical expertise with a passion for using AI to improve healthcare accessibility and outcomes.
Andrew Xue
Co-founder & CTO
Staff Data Engineer at Lumosity • Former Lead Developer at Brain Surprise LLC
Andrew brings over 8 years of experience building scalable data infrastructure and analytics platforms. As one of the founding data engineers at Lumosity, he architected big data systems and led development of mission-critical applications.
Advisors
Y. Dan Rubinstein
Advisor
Y. Dan Rubinstein is a serial entrepreneur and product leader who has held senior roles at Google and Facebook, and co-founded two venture-backed startups: Reflectivity (acquired by Texas Instruments) and Physera (acquired by Omada Health). He advises startup founders, and holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton.
Neil Batlivala
Advisor
Neil Batlivala is the Founder and CEO of Pair Team, a public benefit company reimagining how Medicaid and Medicare serve the most underserved populations. As a tech-enabled medical group, Pair Team delivers whole-person care—clinical, behavioral, and social—by partnering with and enabling organizations deeply connected to the communities they serve. As a healthcare technologist and an engineer who holds a patent in remote medical data capture, Neil's professional experience spans across primary care, medical devices and machine learning research. His passion for overcoming social and economic disparities has driven him to revolutionize patient care and operations within the healthcare system.
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