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Paul R. Alexander

Paul R. Alexander

Founder | CTO | Healthcare Data Lover

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Palo Alto, California
Joined November 2024
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Summary

Passionate about healthcare, demystifying bureaucracy, patient safety, and quality of care; Paul co-founded and led Lexigram, positioning the company to transform unstructured clinical records into queryable, structured data using NLP and a knowledge-graph approach. He publicly represented the company during its seed round and in product/industry writing. hitconsultant+1
Biomedical informatics and ontology engineering practitioner: his research and engineering work at Stanford focused on biomedical ontologies and services (notably BioPortal), and he is a co‑author on widely used BioPortal / ontology tooling publications — indicating strengths in semantic web, knowledge graphs, and clinical data engineering. nih+1
Interdisciplinary background bridging social science and engineering: with an M.A. in Social Science/Anthropology and earlier training in cultural anthropology, Paul combines ethnographic and domain‑expert perspectives with hands‑on engineering — a background that informed Lexigram’s product focus on clinician-friendly, domain-aware tooling. linkedin
Public writing and technical thought leadership: publishes about clinical data, enterprise AI, and product lessons (Medium posts and public comment letters), showing a pattern of shaping product thinking and industry conversations around clinical NLP and data usability. medium+1

Work

Projects

Writing

The State of Enterprise AI in 2017

May 12, 2017

A Medium post discussing the enterprise AI landscape from a practitioner/founder point of view (published on the Lexigram / Paul Alexander Medium handle).

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The Flow of Data in Healthcare (Part 1 & Part 2)

November 1, 2016

Company / product-focused posts about clinical data, unstructured EHR data, and approaches to extracting structure and value with NLP and knowledge graphs (published on Medium under Lexigram).

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BioPortal: enhanced functionality via new Web services from the National Center for Biomedical Ontology to access and use ontologies in software applications

January 1, 2011

Paper describing BioPortal functionality and web services that allow software applications to access and use biomedical ontologies; widely cited in biomedical informatics and ontology work.

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Anthropology, arts collaboration, and writing x+1