About Martin
Dr Martin Seneviratne is a doctor-turned-data scientist, and co-founder of Phare Health helping to improve health care quality by building practical AI applications for the “back office” of the hospital. Martin studied Physics and Medicine at the University of Sydney as part of the combined medicine program, graduating with the University Medal in Science in 2010 and First Class Honours in Medicine in 2014. During university, he developed an app to support task management across multidisciplinary clinical teams (WardConnect) and worked with the George Institute on an app for community cardiovascular screening (HealthNavigator). Later, while working as a junior doctor at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, he was elected as a board member of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and joined the founding team of CancerAid – a digital health startup supporting cancer patients and their caregivers. The Sir John Monash Scholarship enabled Martin to pursue a Masters in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford in 2017 – a hybrid program bridging the Medicine and Computer Science faculties. At Stanford, Martin developed an expertise in AI for electronic health records, which led to a role as a Clinician Scientist at DeepMind Health (later Google Health). Martin was recognized with a Global Australian award by Advance in 2022.
