Abdullah Darvesh

Internal Medicine physician and healthcare-AI founder with experience spanning direct patient care, health informatics, AI governance, and medical education. Equally comfortable on the wards, with technical teams, and in front of business stakeholders. Available for part-time clinical work, AI-integration advisory, fractional medical-director roles, and consulting or AI-training engagements.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer at CITACELL HEALTH SOLUTIONS (2026-01 – Present)

• Founded and currently lead a healthcare-AI infrastructure startup that lets hospitals and clinics safely connect external AI tools to their electronic health record (EHR) systems.
• Advise health systems and digital health startups on integrating external AI safely into clinical workflows.
• Took the company from concept to a working product; secured 4 signed letters of intent and a first clinical pilot planned for summer 2026.
• Named inventor on 6 provisional patents; recruited and manage a cross-functional team of 8 across engineering, product, security, and sales.
• Established relationships and exploratory collaborations with health systems and AI organizations, including Mayo Clinic, Anthropic, Corti, and Pedone AI Advisors.

Attending Hospitalist, Internal Medicine at SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM (2026-09 – Present)

• Incoming attending hospitalist providing acute inpatient internal medicine care within Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System.
• Maintaining active clinical practice alongside research informatics leadership at the system's Gibbs Cancer Center NCORP program.

Informatics Lead, Upstate Carolina Consortium NCORP at GIBBS CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE – NIH NCORP (2026-09 – Present)

• Selected as Informatics Lead for a $3.2M NIH/NCI community oncology research program based at Gibbs Cancer Center.
• Lead informatics strategy for clinical-trial data infrastructure across a three-hospital research consortium serving a largely rural, underserved population.

Lecturer, AI Ethics in Healthcare at UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

• Delivered lectures on AI ethics, data governance, and responsible deployment of clinical AI tools to graduate and professional audiences.
• Taught fourth-year medical students on the intersection of artificial intelligence, clinical decision support, and physician responsibility in AI-augmented care delivery.

Internal Medicine Resident Physician at PRISMA HEALTH / USC SCHOOL OF MEDICINE GREENVILLE (2023-07 – 2026-06)

• Provided direct patient care across inpatient and outpatient services including hospitalist medicine, critical care/ICU, primary care, and specialty rotations.
• Managed primary care patient panel under attending supervision. Admitted, managed, and discharged inpatient panels including rapid responses, codes, and resuscitation.
• Performed inpatient procedures including central and arterial line placement, paracentesis, and intubations.
• Actively taught and evaluated junior residents and medical students during inpatient rotations.

Private MCAT/Organic Chemistry Tutor and Admissions Consultant at VARSITY TUTORS (2020 – Present)

• 1-on-1 MCAT and Organic Chemistry tutoring (100+ clients, 5/5 rating) and medical school admissions consulting (10+ acceptances).

Undergraduate Research Assistant at UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA – Regents' Center for Learning Disorders (2017-06 – 2019-08)

• Researched cultural prevalence and diagnostic parameters of ADHD (SPSS, 500+ records); presented findings at the CURO Symposium.

Undergraduate Research Assistant at UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA – Holmes Lab for Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2017-08 – 2019-08)

• Conducted behavioral neuroscience research in PTSD-model mice; $1,000 CURO assistantship; presented at the CURO Symposium.

Co-Founder / Marketing Director / Tutor at REFUGEE LEARNING CENTER (2016-03 – 2019-08)

• Co-founded a refugee-education nonprofit serving 25 children displaced by the Syrian Civil War; led 15 tutors, secured $4,000+ in grants, and launched a transportation service.

Executive Board, Public Relations Officer at AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION (2020-01 – 2022-07)

• Public-relations officer representing 3,000+ graduate students; managed 60+ representatives and helped allocate $30,000+ per semester in funding.

Master of Management in Clinical Informatics – DUKE UNIVERSITY (2026-07)

Doctor of Medicine – AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY – MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA (2023-05)

Bachelor of Science in Biology; Psychology – UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (2019-05)