Hi! 👋 I’m Chris Lovejoy. My story so far:

Short Version

• 2011 - 2017: Studied Medicine at Cambridge University, dabbling in research, statistics and teaching
• 2017 - 2019: Worked as a doctor and at a healthtech start-up (at intersection of healthcare and AI)
• 2019 - 2021: Did a master’s degree in machine learning and worked in industry as a data scientist
• Sep 2021 - Dec 2022: Founded a company (health data infra), raised investment
• Jan 2023 - Aug 2023: AI consultant and solopreneur / indie hacker
• Aug 2023 - now: Founding team at Anterior, building an AI clinical brain

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Longer Version (reverse chronological)

Building a Clinical Brain (Aug 2023 - Now)

In Progress

Consulting and Bottom-Up Entrepreneurship (Jan 2023 - Aug 2023)

I divided my time between freelancing consulting and building fun projects that could become businesses. I built up my savings while hanging out a bunch with my kid, but started to miss working in a team towards a bigger picture objective.

My approach was to build in public and to focus on what I call “bottom-up” enterpreneurship rather than a more “top-down” approach I took during my first start-up.

Top-Down Entrepreneurship (Sept 2021 - Dec 2022)

In 2021, I started a company to accelerate the transition towards patient-owned health data, and the benefits that would enable. We received financial investment and support from Entrepreneur First, AAVE, Oasis Labs, amongst others. I gave it a good go, learnt a lot but ultimately stopped working on the project in December. The vision was great but the technology for decentralised storage of health data is just not there yet.

Deep-dive Machine Learning (Aug 2019 - Aug 2021)

I did a Master’s Degree in Data Science and Machine Learning at University College London. I wanted to explore my interest in maths, plus build a more concrete skillset outside of clinical medicine. I absolutely loved it, and ended up scoring well. My favourite modules were Natural Language Processing, Computational Biology and Reinforcement Learning.

I also worked various roles in industry as a data scientist and machine learning engineer.

I decided to share my learnings as I went along, which ended up as an online course, various articles and with me becoming a lecturer at UCL and later at Imperial College London.

Doctoring and Beyond (Aug 2017 - Aug 2019)

I worked as a doctor in London from 2017 and gained full registration and license to practice. I wasn’t fully satisfied with medicine, so did some high-speed career sampling. During this period, I also:

• led a small team at Cera Care and built a predictive AI model (for clinical deterioration), which helped us raise £54 million.
• completed an MBA with the Quantic School of Business and Technology
• wrote and published a book for sharing experiences, reflections and advice for learning medicine (Gumroad, Amazon, Waterstones)

Studying Medicine and Experimenting (Sept 2011 - Aug 2017)

I studied Medicine at the University of Cambridge (UK) from 2011 until 2017. I experimented a bunch outside this, including:

• Playing basketball for the university 1st and 2nd teams
• Acting in a few plays at the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club

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Reach out at hi@chrislovejoy.me. If you’re ever in London, we can grab a coffee.