Dr. Joe Logan
Dr. Joe Logan

Dr. Joe Logan

MBBS · PhD (AI/ML) · MBA

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Doctor and AI researcher. I spent ten years in trauma, orthopaedics and retrieval medicine, then completed a PhD in deep learning for breast cancer screening. I now build and advise on AI for healthcare.

Experience

  1. 2018 –

    Healthcare AI

    • Alixir. Co-founder & CTO. AI for screening mammography, deployed in Australia, Indonesia and India.
    • Stitch. Co-founder, 2020 – 2025. Synthetic healthcare data.
    • PhD, University of Technology Sydney. 2018 – 2024. Deep learning for digital mammography.
    • Enagram. CTO & Researcher, 2025. Memory for healthcare LLM applications.
    • Exceptra. CTO & Researcher, 2025. Logging and incident triage for privacy-sensitive software.
    • Leap. CTO & Researcher, 2026. A quantum computing IDE for bioscience research.
    • Consulting. Computer vision and LLMs for NHS Trusts, Australian private hospitals and health-tech companies.
    • ClintixPro. Fractional CTO, 2025. Exam preparation for clinicians.
    Watch: Alixir and the research behind it →
  2. 2010 – 2019

    Digital health

    • CheckIt Health. Fractional CTO, 2019. Preventive medicine.
    • Bleep. CTO, 2015. Clinical messaging to replace the hospital pager.
    • AirHealth. 2016. Telehealth.
    • Cosmabl. Fractional CTO, 2016. Cosmetic medicine.
    • MedSquared. 2010 – 2014. Digital health consulting.
    • MBA, University of Leicester. 2016.
  3. 2008 – 2018

    Clinical medicine

    Orthopaedics, trauma, and aeromedical and retrieval medicine. Oxford, Western Australia, Melbourne and Sydney.

  4. 2003 – 2008

    MBBS

    University of Southampton.

Publications

Talks & community

Dr. Joe Logan presenting Transfer Learning for Medical Imaging to a full room
Transfer Learning for Medical Imaging
Dr. Joe Logan presenting on the disadvantages of transfer learning in medical imaging
On the limits of transfer learning for medical datasets
Dr. Joe Logan speaking at a Sydney Healthcare AI & Data Science meetup at Lorica Health
Sydney Healthcare AI & Data Science at Lorica Health

Book

Beyond Lean book cover

Beyond Lean

Why startups fail in deep tech and regulated industries such as healthcare, and what actually works. Introduces the Evidence Based Venture Pathway, an alternative to lean startup for high-stakes ventures.

Available on Amazon

Other projects

  • Raceway

    Lead maintainer. An open-source concurrency debugger for distributed systems, in Rust.

Also founded Fleet (GPU training and deployment) and Arcadian (AI-native game creation).

Contact

I advise health systems and health-tech founders on clinical AI. Email hello@jlgn.io.