Dr Dom Pimenta M.D.Founder

United Kingdom - London, England

I like making things. From diagnoses to hypotheses, from kitchen tables to Python models, from charities to companies; doing something new, exploring and building in a new area to the highest level is what I love.

And now I'm making something huge and new and shiny (I hope) as CEO of TORTUS, an AI healthtech company co founded at Entrepreneur First in London in Nov 2022. I'm wrapping up all of my clinical and tech dreams of the future, and with my co-founder Christopher Tan building that into reality. You can read more here https://tortus.ai

I was formerly the lead specialty research physician at Richmond Research Institute, running clinical trials in digital health and AI, publishing original research in everything from in-human physiology studies to artificial intelligence and cardiac imaging to Big Data and the relationships between food and health.

I was formerly the clinical lead for Cardiology at ORCHA, the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA)- bringing digital health in line with the core values of medicine; evidence, patient benefit, and rigor.

These roles are about big ideas and hard work to make them happen. And that’s exactly what I love doing. Discovering coding and Python has been a revelation- creating models to predict liver disease, to guide dosing for heart failure, to “read” an ECG like a human- this feels like the future I wanted to be a part of as a kid. Despite all the cool tech stuff, the best part of my day was still speaking to patients over the telephone.

I am the founding chair and former CEO of the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation Charity, a charity I helped set up in response to COVID, raising £3.2m in our first year of operations and becoming a registered charity. At its height I ran a team of around 20 people, and three external agencies (legal, social, comms) plus a whole other PPE organisation (SHIELD). Doing something positive during the pandemic was a real soul-filling exercise, and innovating to create sustainable PPE from ocean plastic was one of my favourite projects of all time. The Royal Academy of Engineers agreed with us, and awarded two of our projects their Presidents Medal for Pandemic Service.

Outside of the world of medicine and charities I like making other things. Here’s a quick list:

⁃ A Sunday Times Bestseller
⁃ A famous bookcase
⁃ A killer spaghetti and meatballs
⁃ Three beautiful children (partial credit)

That’s me. I like to work with hard working people that really care about what they do. If you want to explore a collaboration on any of our work give me a DM!