Naina Rao
Orthopaedic Surgery Resident at NYU Langone Health
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolNaina Rao is an orthopaedic surgery resident at NYU Langone with 11 years of interdisciplinary experience bridging medicine, engineering, and product development. Trained in computer science and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins and an MD candidate at NYU Grossman, she has translated technical skills into healthcare innovations—from founding Conversaid, an emotion-detecting assistive glasses for autistic children, to building analytics tools for the VA using openFDA. Her background spans bench research in nanoparticle gene delivery, clinical research, and hands-on software and hardware development, giving her a rare ability to move ideas from prototype to clinical context. She combines surgical training with a founder’s product instincts and prior CTO experience, allowing her to identify practical technology solutions that address clinician and patient needs. Based in the New York City area, she brings entrepreneurial grit, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and a track record of securing grant and competition funding to advance medical technology.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityDoctor of Medicine - MD, Doctor of Medicine - MD at New York Medicine JobsHigh School, High School at Plano West Senior High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
programming-tools10
to-do7
census6
java4
python4
geotools3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nainarao/nainarao.github.io
Mar 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:200 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Nainarao/Spree
Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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