ABOUT

Medicine taught me what matters. Design taught me how to build it.

With over 15 years bridging medicine, design and technology, I build digital health systems that clinicians trust and patients love.

Karim Sandid, seated on a wooden stool in a black roll-neck, leaning forward and smiling

THE STORY

I am Senior Clinical Product Lead at Numan, where my team owns the clinical logic and data foundations that make genuine personalisation possible: the rules, structured data and emerging AI that turn a patient's information into safe, individualised care. The work reflects a conviction about where medicine is heading: preventive, personalised and proactive, with technology that strengthens the human connection in care rather than replacing it.

Before Numan, I led clinical product strategy and safety at Semble, an EHR platform serving over nine million patients across the UK and France, where I delivered the certifications and national integrations that opened the French market. Earlier, I co-founded Kuma Health, a Zinc-backed AI companion for autoimmune care, and advised startups, pharma and academia on product strategy, clinical safety and technology-enabled care.

I trained as a doctor in Paris, co-founded and ran two multidisciplinary primary care practices there, then practised for years as a family doctor in the NHS in London alongside my product work. The mission has not changed: translating medical science, behavioural science and clinical insight into technology that is usable, compliant and human-centred.

MY JOURNEY

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PRINCIPLES

  1. Turning clinical chaos into clarity and flow.
  2. Building digital tools that make clinicians faster, safer and less frustrated.
  3. Designing systems where patients feel seen and heard, not processed.
  4. Bringing clinical safety upstream, so we don't pay for mistakes later.
  5. Using AI and data to shift healthcare from reactive medicine to proactive health.

TIMELINE

  • Senior Clinical Product LeadNuman, London
  • Product Manager & Clinical Safety OfficerSemble, London
  • Co-founder & CMPOKuma Health (Zinc VC), London
  • Senior ConsultantProva Health (Roche, Novartis), London
  • Doctor & Medical AdvisorNuman
  • Family doctor (General Practitioner)NHS England, London
  • Clinical Safety Officer & advisorEntia and other ventures; guest lecturer in digital health & design thinking
  • University Lecturer, Primary CareUniversité Paris Cité
  • Co-founder, family doctor & partnerTwo multidisciplinary practices in Paris, including ipso santé (team of 14), with more than 40 people across both
  • Resident DoctorAP-HP, Greater Paris University Hospitals

EDUCATION

  • MRes Healthcare & DesignRoyal College of Art & Imperial College London
  • MSc Educational TechnologyUniversité Paris Cité
  • MD Family MedicineUniversité Paris Cité. Thesis awarded the highest distinction (Silver Medal, Mention Très Honorable avec Félicitations du Jury).

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Quality and Safety for LLM ApplicationsDeepLearning.AI
  • Supervised Machine LearningDeepLearning.AI
  • Digital Clinical Safety PractitionerNHS Digital
  • Generative AI FundamentalsGoogle Cloud
  • Full registrationGeneral Medical Council (UK)

HEALTH DESIGN CIRCLE

In September 2026 I founded Health Design Circle, a community built on a simple claim: health needs more design. It brings clinicians, designers, researchers, founders, engineers, patients and carers into structured Circle Sessions, part clinical case meeting, part design critique, to examine the products, services and spaces that shape health. It is the living expression of everything on this site.