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Mosisa Saba.

Perspectives across disciplines.

Education · Based
Edu University of Southern California
LA Los Angeles, California
PDX Portland, Oregon
Currently
Writing AK-47: The Symbol
Reading The Oromo: An Ancient People, Great African Nation
Watching Classroom of the Elite
While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.
Thomas Sankara

01About

I build healthcare tools for the people big systems leave out, and I study what gets lost when a patient’s story becomes a chart note.

I’m a senior at USC, finishing a B.A. in Health and Human Sciences and, alongside it, a progressive M.S. in Narrative Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine. Both wrap up in spring 2027.

I grew up in Portland around my mother’s adult foster care homes, and my father is a pharmacist, so I saw early how much of care happens outside the exam room. Before I wrote any software I worked as a caregiver in Oregon for special needs and ventilator-dependent adults.

Synic AI is where that turned into work. I started it in 2025 to build tools for independent physicians, dental teams, families caring at home and anyone trying to read the research for themselves. I also write on Medium, mostly about medicine and AI and sometimes about history and travel.

Studying
University of Southern CaliforniaB.A. Health & Human Sciences, Pre-Med · M.S. Narrative Medicine, Keck · 2027
Based
Los Angeles, California
From
Portland, OregonOromo, Ethiopian-American
Speaks
English and OromiffaAmharic and Spanish, intermediate
Building
Synic AI and Truvace
4Synic products you can open today: clinical, Evidence, Dental and Relay
536clinical encounters in my preregistered study, with 21,902 patient turns
800+notes written by 8 physicians piloting an earlier Synic version for one month
2027the spring I finish both degrees

02Building

Healthcare tools, for all.

Most good clinical software gets sold to hospital systems. I build for the people outside them: the solo physician, the dental office, the family caregiver and anyone trying to make sense of the research on their own.

Synic AI

I founded Synic AI in June 2025. It’s one company with four products, and they share one rule: Synic drafts, a person decides.

I architected the stack in React, TypeScript, Node.js and PostgreSQL. Production runs on HIPAA-eligible AWS infrastructure, with BAAs signed with Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Corti and AWS.

Role
Founder
Since
June 2025
Stage
Pre-seed
Synic AI homepage: Drafted by Synic. Signed by you.
LiveFor independent physicians

Drafted by Synic. Signed by you.

For the physician without an enterprise system or a scribe. Synic drafts the intake summary, the visit note, the codes and the forms while the doctor stays with the patient. Nothing is filed until the physician signs it.

An earlier version was piloted for one month by 8 physicians (800+ notes); the rebuilt v2 is live.

synicai.com
  • Pre-visit intake and an ambient scribe
  • ICD-10, CPT and HCPCS coding with the rationale shown
  • Prior authorization with denial-risk flags
  • CMS quality reporting (QPP)
  • EHR integration with Epic and Oracle HealthShipped November 2026

Coding exact-match · 121-encounter synthetic benchmark

Prior pipeline52%
With Corti agents78%

After integrating Corti’s clinical coding and documentation agents through its startup program.

Synic Evidence: Research starts here.
FreePublic since Oct 24, 2026

Research, for all.

Ask a health or research question in plain language and get an answer built from live PubMed, PMC, FDA drug labels and ClinicalTrials.gov. Every sentence cites its source, and every quote is checked word for word against the passage it came from.

You can follow a question and get an alert when new evidence comes in.

Try Synic Evidence
  • PubMed, PMC and Europe PMC
  • FDA drug labels, RxNorm and MedlinePlus
  • ClinicalTrials.gov
  • Cited sentences with source checksQuotes matched word for word
  • Followed questions and alerts
Synic Dental: Templates get denied. Specifics get approved.
LiveFor dental teams

Specifics get approved.

Enter what you found in the chair. Synic Dental drafts the claim narrative, predetermination or appeal the way insurance reviewers read them, with the attachment checklist ready.

It works from procedure facts, so the inputs don’t need patient names or identifiers. The dental team reviews every draft before it goes anywhere.

See Synic Dental
  • Claim narratives
  • Predeterminations
  • Appeals
  • Attachment checklists
  • No patient identifiers needed
Synic Relay: Care, carried together.
Public demoUSC SHIP Fund 2026

Care, carried together.

So much of caregiving lives in one person’s memory: the breakfast routine, the sign that means he’s in pain, which pill needs food. Relay helps families supporting an adult with intellectual and developmental disabilities, or an aging parent, write that down while life is calm.

It checks in, watches for silence and only hands off to the people the family chose.

See the demo
  • Nothing enters the care plan until the family approves it
  • Nothing is sent or booked without a yes
  • Only a person the family named can start a handoff
  • USC SHIP Fund 2026 participant

Also building

Outside Synic

Truvace front page with the day's AI impact stories
Founder and editor

Truvace

The public record of AI impact. Truvace tracks what AI is doing across nine sectors, good and bad, and traces every entry back to a real source. A daily index scores companies on their impact.

+ Good Space− Problem SpaceDaily company index
Read truvace.com
ACL Caregiver AI Prize Challenge

Continuum

My submission to the challenge. It keeps the care logic separate from the interface.

USC AEE Hydropower Team

Pumped storage, Kern County

Community Connection Team Lead for policy and outreach. National finalist; two awards at the 2026 DOE competition.

03Research

What the note keeps.

My research asks whether a patient’s own words survive when AI writes the clinical note. I also lead a scoping review on the healthcare work family caregivers do at home.

Preprint · Sep 2026 · Sole author

The Narrative Fidelity Framework: A Preregistered Stress Test of Patient-Narrative Measures

Mosisa Saba, Synic AI. Preregistered and published on Zenodo.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22801787

Abstract acceptedInaugural UNESCO Chair on Health, Race and Human Rights Global Congress. February 2027, San José, Costa Rica.

Do AI clinical notes keep what patients say?

I preregistered the test before running it, then measured across three public corpora. The most useful result was the uncomfortable one: a detector that looked excellent on examples I wrote fell apart on independent data. Only one measure, stated worry, reproduced across every corpus.

536encounters
21,902patient turns
3public corpora

Detector precision

Fixtures I wrote94%
Independent data8%

Stated worry reproduced in all three corpora (α = .68 to .87).

In progress

Lead author · USC Norris Medical Library · Jun 2026 to now

Scoping review: healthcare tasks performed by unpaid family caregivers

I’m mapping the healthcare tasks that unpaid family caregivers do at home for adults 65 and older, using a PCC protocol and PRISMA-ScR.

  1. ProtocolPopulation, Concept, Context; PRISMA-ScR
  2. Search translatedMEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase and grey literature
  3. Validated against a gold set
  4. Peer review of the strategyWith a Norris Medical Library informationist

04Path

How I got here.

Caregiving came first. The research and the software came after.

  1. Sep 2026

    Zenodo · Sole author

    Published The Narrative Fidelity Framework

    A preregistered test of whether AI clinical notes keep what patients say. The abstract was accepted at the inaugural UNESCO Chair on Health, Race and Human Rights Global Congress for February 2027.

  2. Jun 2026 – now

    USC Norris Medical Library

    Lead author, scoping review

    Mapping the healthcare tasks unpaid family caregivers of adults 65+ do at home.

  3. 2026

    USC AEE Hydropower Team

    Community Connection Team Lead, policy and outreach

    A pumped-storage project in Kern County. We were national finalists at the 2026 U.S. DOE Hydropower Collegiate Competition in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and won the People’s Award and Best Poster.

  4. Jun 2025 – now

    Synic AI

    Founder

    Built the clinical workflow for solo and small-clinic physicians (ambient scribing, coding with rationale, prior authorization and quality reporting), then launched Synic Evidence, Synic Dental and Synic Relay.

  5. Feb – May 2025

    Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health

    Policy and Advocacy Extern (virtual job simulation)

    Drafted a policy strategy, a stakeholder map and an abstract for the Australasian Viral Hepatitis Conference.

  6. Jun – Aug 2024

    Association of American Medical Colleges

    SHPEP Public Health Scholar, University of Washington

    An eight-week public health intensive in Seattle with rotations at Fred Hutchinson, King County Public Health and Harborview.

  7. Aug 2023 – May 2027

    University of Southern California · Keck School of Medicine

    B.A. Health and Human Sciences, M.S. Narrative Medicine

    Pre-medicine, with the M.S. in USC’s Progressive Degree Program, concurrent with the B.A. Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence, USC Dean Scholar and Dean’s List (Fall 2025, Spring 2026).

  8. Dec 2022 – Aug 2024

    Oregon Department of Human Services · Breathe Easy Ventilator

    Caregiver, special needs and ventilator-dependent patients

    Daily living assistance and medication administration for 5 to 7 patients a week, including ventilator-dependent adults.

    Beaverton, Oregon

Service

Leadership and service

Healthcare Justice Chair at Justice In Motion, where I organized the Empowered Voices workshop for underrepresented students in law and health.

Global Medical Brigades Brothers Breaking Bread East African Student Association

05Writing

Medicine, AI and history.

I write on Medium when something won’t leave me alone. Some pieces are about healthcare AI, some are about history and one is about Zen practice in Japan. My first public piece was a petition I wrote at 15.

More on Medium

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06Recognition

Honors and credentials.

2026 U.S. DOE Hydropower Collegiate Competition · Green Bay, WI

National finalist. People’s Award and Best Poster.

I was Community Connection Team Lead, handling policy and outreach, for the USC AEE Hydropower Team’s pumped-storage project in Kern County.

National finalistPeople’s AwardBest Poster
  • Abstract acceptedInaugural UNESCO Chair on Health, Race and Human Rights Global Congress
    Feb 2027
  • Dean’s Award for Academic ExcellenceUniversity of Southern California
  • USC Dean ScholarUniversity of Southern California
  • Dean’s ListFall 2025 and Spring 2026
    2025–26
  • USC SHIP Fund participantSynic Relay
    2026
  • SHPEP Public Health ScholarAAMC, University of Washington
    2024

Certifications

  • CITI Research: HIPAA2026
  • CITI Social-Behavioral Human Subjects2026
  • Anthropic AI Fluency: AI Capabilities and Limitations2026
  • Stanford Medicine AI in Healthcare2025
  • AHA First Aid/CPR/AEDAHA
  • ACS STOP THE BLEEDACS
  • Oregon DHS Adult Foster Care TrainingODHS

Skills

Clinical
Patient monitoring, medication administration, care plan documentation, home and ventilator care, spectrophotometry
Research
Preregistration, scoping and systematic review methods, PRISMA-ScR, search translation, Covidence, Zotero
Technical
React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Python, AWS, retrieval-augmented generation, LLM evaluation, Git
First page of Mosisa Saba's résumé

07Résumé · one page

Everything above, on one page.

Education, research, Synic AI, caregiving, certifications and service, in the version I send when someone asks.

USC ’27B.A. + M.S.
Synic AIFounder
PreprintZenodo, 2026
Download PDF Read it here

08Contact

Let’s talk.

mosisasaba04@gmail.com

Elsewhere

I’m in Los Angeles. Email is the best way to reach me about research, Synic or anything you read here.