Christian Chartier, MD
Medical doctor and machine learning engineer. Currently I am obsessed with using language models to replicate clinical decision-making. Not working on diagnosis.
About
I have over 5 years of experience deploying AI-enabled software solutions for clinical use, working with health systems like Mass General Brigham and the McGill University Health Centre. Previously a tech and healthcare banker. Put plainly, I aim to make a broad impact by combining technology and medicine.
Work Experience
Independent Consultant
Consulting
2024 - Present
Consultant
Working with healthcare companies/systems on AI strategy, implementation, and infrastructure
Jewish General Hospital (McGill University Health Centre)
2023 - Present
Resident Physician
Training in general, internal, and emergency medicine at Quebec's largest university-affiliated teaching hospital
ClinicOS (formerly BreastGAN)
Remote
2020 - Present
Creator of BreastGAN → Applied AI Engineer → Product Manager, AI
Venture-backed early-stage startup based on BreastGAN (see "Projects" below)
Clinical Machine Learning Research Fellow
Published scientist with over 30 peer-reviewed publications in Surgery and Clinical Artificial Intelligence
Credit Suisse AG
Summers 2018, 2019
Investment Banking Summer Analyst – Biotechnology & Healthcare
- Performed financial modeling, clinical trial analysis and valuation in pharmaceutical and health insurance sectors
- Prepared market update newsletter for firm-wide readership – described as "witty, deadpan writing style"
- Prepared market update newsletter for firm-wide readership – described as "witty, deadpan writing style"
Persistence Capital Partners
Summer 2017
Private Equity Summer Analyst – Healthcare
Performed deal origination and valuation in veterinary medicine, endocrinology, wearable devices sectors
Education
McGill University
2017 - 2023
Doctor of Medicine
Skills
Machine Learning
AI Strategy
LLMs
Computer Vision
Recommendation Systems
Generative AI
Projects
BreastGAN
https://academic.oup.com/asjopenforum/article/doi/10.1093/asjof/ojab052/6459538/
Generative AI for aesthetic surgery
side project
cyclegan
stable diffusion
react/next.js
ChartSweep
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8205215/
HIAA-compliant retrospective chart review automation
side project
selenium
docker/kubernetes
python
1370
Mixtral-8x7B MoE model fine-tuned for bilingual medical history-taking
side project
mistral
hugging face
llamaindex
rag
Round
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Physician sign-out and speech-to-speech ward rounding application
side project
react/next.js
whisper
elevenlabs
react/next.js
html/css
Western Alliance Dev
westernalliancelogistics.com
Email parsing and data validation for third-party logistics provider
side project
pydantic
instructor
Peer-Reviewed Works
A practical approach to artificial intelligence in plastic surgery
2020
Chandawarkar, Akash; Chartier, Christian; Kanevsky, Jonathan; Cress, Phaedra E
Chartsweep: A Hipaa-compliant Tool To Automate Chart Review For Plastic Surgery Research
2020
Chartier, Christian; Gfrerer, Lisa; Austen Jr, William G
The Relationship Between Carpal Tunnel Syndrome And Migraine Headache, A Diathesis?
2020
Chartier, Christian; Gfrerer, Lisa; Austen Jr, William G
Insta-grated plastic surgery residencies: 2020 update
2021
Chartier, Christian; Chandawarkar, Akash A; Gould, Daniel J; Stevens, W Grant
Patient pain sketches can predict surgical outcomes in trigger-site deactivation surgery for headaches
2020
Gfrerer, Lisa; Hansdorfer, Marek A; Ortiz, Ricardo; Nealon, Kassandra P; Chartier, Christian; Runyan, Gem G; Zarfos, Samuel D; Austen Jr, William Gerald
Artificial Intelligence-enabled Evaluation of Pain Drawings to Predict Outcomes in Migraine Surgery
2020
Chartier, Christian; Gfrerer, Lisa; Austen Jr, William Gerald G
Ultrasonographic Evidence of Trapezius Fascia Thickening in Patients Undergoing Trigger Site Deactivation Surgery Compared With Healthy Control
2020
Chartier, Christian; Gfrerer, Lisa; Austen Jr, William Gerald G
The Relationship of Psychiatric Variables in Patients Undergoing Peripheral Nerve Surgery for Migraine Headache
2020
Gfrerer, Lisa; Ortiz, Ricardo; Hansdorfer, Marek A; Tsui, Jane M; Chartier, Christian; Nealon, Kassandra P; Austen Jr, William Gerald G
Muscle fascia changes in patients with occipital neuralgia, headache, or migraine
2021
Gfrerer, Lisa; Hansdorfer, Marek A; Ortiz, Ricardo; Chartier, Christian; Nealon, Kassandra P; Austen Jr, William G
Chartsweep: A Novel HIPAA-Compliant Tool to Automate Chart Review for Plastic Surgery Research
2020
Chartier, Christian; Gfrerer, Lisa; Austen, William Gerald G
Trapezius Fascia Thickening on Ultrasound in Patients Undergoing Trigger Site Deactivation Surgery Compared to Healthy Control
2020
Gfrerer, Lisa; Chartier, Christian; Nasser, Ahmed E; Austen, William Gerald G
On the Measure of Intelligence During the COVID-19 Pandemic
2021
Chartier, Christian
ChartSweep: a HIPAA-compliant tool to automate chart review for plastic surgery research
2021
Chartier, Christian; Gfrerer, Lisa; Austen Jr, William G
Using Big Data to Assess Legitimacy of Plastic Surgery Information on Social Media
2022
Chartier, Christian; Lee, Justine C; Borschel, Gregory; Chandawarkar, Akash
The Case for Publicly Funded Migraine Surgery in Canada
2023
Chartier, Christian; ElHawary, Hassan; Anastakis, Dimitri
Tendon: Principles of Healing and Repair
2021
Chartier, Christian; ElHawary, Hassan; Baradaran, Aslan; Vorstenbosch, Joshua; Xu, Liqin; Efanov, Johnny Ionut
Commentary on: Global Pandemic and Plastic Surgery Residency Match: Can Social Media Fill the Void?
2021
Chartier, Christian; Chandawarkar, Akash A
The Case for Publicly Funded Headache Surgery in Germany
2021
Knoedler, Leonard; Chartier, Christian; ElHawary, Hassan; Kehrer, Andreas; Muehlberger, Thomas
The role of diagnostic nerve blocks in headache surgery
2021
Gfrerer, Lisa; Casari, Maria; Chartier, Christian; Knoedler, Leonard; Austen Jr, William Gerald
A correlation between upper extremity compressive neuropathy and nerve compression headache
2021
Gfrerer, Lisa; Chartier, Christian; Lans, Jonathan; Eberlin, Kyle R; Austen Jr, William Gerald
BreastGAN: artificial intelligence-enabled breast augmentation simulation
2022
Chartier, Christian; Watt, Ayden; Lin, Owen; Chandawarkar, Akash; Lee, James; Hall-Findlay, Elizabeth
Pocket predictors: are smartphones the future of artificial intelligence in plastic surgery
2023
ElHawary, Hassan; Watt, Ayden; Chartier, Christian; Gorgy, Andrew; Gilardino, Mirko S
Open versus laparoscopic surgical management of rectus diastasis: systematic review and pooled analysis of complications and recurrence rates
2022
ElHawary, Hassan; Chartier, Christian; Alam, Peter; Janis, Jeffrey E
A Synopsis of Artificial Intelligence and its Applications in Surgery
2023
Rajesh, Aashish; Chartier, Christian; Asaad, Malke; Butler, Charles E
Locoregional perforator flaps in breast reconstruction: an anatomic review & quadrant algorithm
2022
Chartier, Christian; Safran, Tyler; Alhalabi, Becher; Murphy, Amanda; Davison, Peter
122. Using Breastgan V2. 0 to Improve Patient Selection in Single-Stage Augmentation/Mastopexy
2022
Chartier, Christian; ElHawary, Hassan; Watt, Ayden; Chandawarkar, Akash; Hall-Findlay, Elizabeth; Lee, James
Migraine headaches in patients with upper extremity compressive neuropathy
2022
Gfrerer, Lisa; Lans, Jonathan; Chartier, Christian; Wenzinger, Eric; Austen Jr, William G; Eberlin, Kyle R
The Rise of Facial Palsy on Social Media Over the Last 5 Years
2023
Knoedler, Leonard; Knoedler, Samuel; Chartier, Christian; Panayi, Adriana C; Orgill, Dennis P; Moog, Philipp; Oezdemir, Berkin; von Isenburg, Sarah; Studier-Fischer, Alexander; Prantl, Lukas
Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Evaluation of Pain Sketches to Predict Outcomes in Headache Surgery
2023
Chartier, Christian; Gfrerer, Lisa; Knoedler, Leonard; Austen Jr, William G
19. Breastgan: Artificial Intelligence-enabled Breast Augmentation Simulation
2022
Chartier, Christian; Watt, Ayden; Chandawarkar, Akash; Lee, James; Hall-Findlay, Elizabeth
Evidence-Based Patient Selection in Headache Surgery: Impact of Preoperative Radiofrequency Ablation on Surgical Outcomes
2023
Casari, Maria E; Chartier, Christian; Gfrerer, Lisa; Austen Jr, William G
Artificial intelligence-enabled simulation of gluteal augmentation: A helpful tool in preoperative outcome simulation?
2023
Knoedler, Leonard; Odenthal, Jan; Prantl, Lukas; Oezdemir, Berkin; Kehrer, Andreas; Kauke-Navarro, Martin; Matar, Dany Y; Obed, Doha; Panayi, Adriana C; Broer, P Niclas
Relative pain reduction and duration of nerve block response predict outcomes in headache surgery: A prospective cohort study
2023
Knoedler, Leonard; Chartier, Christian; Casari, Maria E; Amador, Ricardo O; Odenthal, Jan; Gfrerer, Lisa; Austen Jr, William G
building artificial medical intelligence