Ashley Tehranchi Too many doctors don't practice the medicine they trained for. As a research technician at Baylor College of Medicine, I left with one vision: build software that could do what no single physician ever could — capture the entire catalog of medicine, incorporate each patient's genetic and environmental factors, stay current with the latest research, and surface it all with a confidence score doctors could actually trust. Software that levels the playing field, so a solo physician in rural Texas practices with the same depth of insight as a specialist at a major academic center. That vision sent me to Stanford for a PhD in biology. I wanted to understand big data — how to collect it, analyze it rigorously, and make it mean something. When I finally set out to build it, I ran into the wall everyone before me had hit. Getting access to clinical data is hard. Getting enough of it is expensive and slow. And even when you manage that, the quality is poor — inconsistent across systems, non-transferable, and useless for the kind of modeling I had in mind. The dream wasn't wrong. The foundation was. That's why I built Toro Health — a healthcare data platform, starting with the tools physicia
Founder & CEO
cofounder & CTO
Postdoctoral Researcher
Bachelor's studies in biology
