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In an age of AI-generated articles, AI summaries, and AI-narrated videos, the scarce thing is a human who has actually done the work. Clinical Modality is led by two people with decades of hands-on healthcare-technology experience — a practicing physician licensed in all 50 U.S. states who founded and runs a longevity/telehealth company, and an engineer who has spent 20+ years building the telehealth platforms clinicians use every day. They remain accountable for what we publish.
Real clinicians. Real engineers. Real experience. Our editorial standard assigns two named review roles: The Clinical Read and The Build Read.
Practicing physician licensed in all 50 U.S. states, with a computer science undergraduate background. Founder of a multi-million-dollar-revenue longevity/telehealth startup and an active telehealth operator.
Senior author of the PEARL Trial — the world's largest rapamycin-for-aging study. XPRIZE Healthspan semi-finalist.
Role here: Dr. Zalzala is responsible for The Clinical Read — the clinical-safety and patient-impact lens.
20+ years in product management and engineering. Founded Consultanist, a healthcare technology consulting firm. Built telehealth platforms (VitalNoor, LongevitAge, Staff Portal) from scratch — and built this platform, including its source-review tooling.
Role here: Isam is responsible for The Build Read — the architecture, data-handling, and vendor-engineering lens — and built and maintains the source-review tooling.
AMA 2026 U.S. physician survey: 81% report professional AI use; 92% want more training.
Our editorial standard defines named Clinical Read and Build Read roles, primary-source review, and a visible source record. See the full standard for how those roles and checks work.
Primary literature first. Every piece starts from indexed sources, guidelines, and hands-on testing — not vendor decks.
Our editorial standard calls for each claim to be reviewed against its source by people who build and use these systems. Unsupported claims are fixed or cut.
Our editorial standard assigns The Clinical Read to Dr. Zalzala and The Build Read to Isam: two named roles covering different failure modes.
Our editorial standard calls for clinical claims to carry inline primary citations and statistics to carry their source and date. If we can't verify it, we don't publish it.
Errors are corrected in the open, dated, and never silently edited. We re-check cited PubMed records for corrections and retractions, and revisit affected content when the record changes.
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HIPAA, malpractice, governance. The content nobody else covers because it's hard. We cover it because it matters.
Real practitioners on camera. No synthetic presenters, no synthetic voices, no generated footage. AI may assist research, drafting, transcription, and QA. Named humans remain responsible for everything we publish.
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Clinical Modality is an independent publication; implementation services are provided separately by Consultanist and disclosed in our Independence Policy.
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