About Sam Margolis
Research & biography
Sam Margolis is a physician-in-training and computer scientist working at the intersection of medical artificial intelligence, cardiovascular medicine, and biomedical research. He is a Sarnoff Fellow conducting research at Stanford University and an MD candidate at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His scholarly publications appear under Samuel Margolis and Samuel J. Margolis.
He was named to the Sarnoff Fellowship Program in 2026 and spends the year in Euan Ashley's group at Stanford, working on AI for cardiovascular genomics. He is first author of DrugTargetWorld.
At UCLA since 2023, he has worked with Tzung Hsiai's group on sensors and cardiovascular imaging, with Joann Elmore on how patient-facing AI triages, and with Mina Sedrak's group on breast cancer survivorship and patient-reported outcomes. He founded OpenScribe, is a Fellow at npj Digital Medicine, and co-hosts its podcast, The Digital Pulse.
Before medicine: computer science at Washington University in St. Louis, then McKinsey & Company and Gates Ventures. He founded and sold USocial, and co-founded MediBand.
Off hours: mountains, surfing, wreck diving, baking, and blues guitar. Photos and books.
Academic name
Academic publications: Sam publishes scholarly work under Samuel Margolis and Samuel J. Margolis. See the full list of publications.
