Propofol and hypertriglyceridemia in the ICU
Systematic review and meta-analysis of recent observational data. Presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress, New Orleans 2025.
Read paper →Hi, I'm Logan.
Engineer turned physician, focused on the heart.
I'm a cardiac hospitalist at the only dedicated heart hospital in South Carolina, a clinical researcher, and a medical educator, working toward a career in interventional cardiology.
30+Research works, case reports, and lectures
7Peer-reviewed publications
130+Venous ablation procedures performed
6Residency honors and awards
About
Who I am
I started out as an engineer. After earning a degree in Biological Systems Engineering from Auburn University, I worked as a process engineer and team lead, managing production, people, and processes on a manufacturing floor. That background still shapes how I practice, with an emphasis on systems thinking, procedural precision, and evidence-based reasoning.
I earned my Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed my Internal Medicine residency at Prisma Health / University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia. Along the way I found my focus: cardiovascular medicine, and long term, interventional cardiology, including coronary intervention, complex lesion management, and structural heart disease.
Today I care for cardiac patients as a hospitalist at Prisma Health's Heart Hospital, working side by side with our cardiology consult service. Outside of patient care, I do clinical research, teach medical students, and help other trainees get started with research.
My engineering side never went away. I use AI to build tools I wish I'd had in training: procedure simulators, 3D anatomy, and research platforms that put a large body of evidence in one place.
Experience
Where I've been
Education
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2026
Internal Medicine Residency
Prisma Health / USC School of Medicine
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2023
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine
Fourth-year rotations in interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, preventive cardiology, and a consultative cardiology elective at Duke University.
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2018
B.S., Biological Systems Engineering
Auburn University
Career
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Jul 2026 – Present
Cardiac Hospitalist
Prisma Health Heart Hospital · Columbia, SC
Managing a broad range of cardiovascular disease alongside the cardiology consult service, including acute coronary syndromes, heart failure, arrhythmia, and procedural cardiology.
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2023 – 2026
Internal Medicine Resident
Prisma Health / USC School of Medicine · Columbia, SC
Training across general medicine, cardiology, critical care, pulmonology, nephrology, POCUS, and outpatient medicine. Research Committee Chair, Cardiology Interest Group founder, and SC ACP Resident Council member.
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2020 – 2022
Question Specialist
Physeo USMLE Review
Wrote clinical vignette questions and explanations for USMLE Step 2, and contributed chapters to three review textbooks.
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2014 – 2019
Process Engineer and Operations Lead
Specialty Piping Products
Ran production scheduling and inventory for the company's largest customer, supervised welding crews, helped launch the facility's first robotic welder, and later rebuilt the company's marketing and website.
Honors
- Charles S. Bryan, MD Scholar AwardOutstanding academic achievement by a graduating resident · Prisma Health IM2026
- Resident Teaching AwardGraduating resident who contributed most to the teaching program · Prisma Health IM2026
- Student Teacher of the YearVoted by USC School of Medicine third-year students2026
- Ultrasound AwardPassion and skill in performing and teaching ultrasound · Prisma Health IM2026
- Gold Humanism Honor SocietyArnold P. Gold Foundation · Nominated by faculty and peers2025
- Resident of the YearVoted by the USC School of Medicine Class of 20262025
Clinical skills
Research and scholarship
What I've published and presented
My research centers on cardiovascular disease, especially heart failure and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, along with critical care and interesting clinical cases.
Selected publications
Loop diuretics alone vs. combined with a thiazide-type diuretic in acute decompensated heart failure
Systematic review and meta-analysis. Also presented at the Heart Failure Society of America, Atlanta 2024.
Read paper →Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the trauma patient
Case report and review of the literature. Presented at the Southeastern Trauma Symposium, 2024.
Read paper →Impact of HOCM on sepsis outcomes: a nationwide comparison with heart failure subtypes
Presented at SCCM Critical Care Congress, Southern Medical Association, and Prisma Health IM Grand Rounds.
Read abstract →Adverse cardiovascular outcomes in young cannabis users
A nationwide analysis of cardiovascular risk in younger adults who use cannabis.
Read paper →SVT and stroke: should we pump the brakes on cardioversion?
Thromboembolic risk in acute cardioversion of SVT. Presented at USC Discover Day 2024.
Read paper →Presentations, lectures, and other work (23)
- Takotsubo cardiomyopathy complicating septic shock in HFrEF: a national cohortAbstract submitted · HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting · Phoenix · 2026
- Bridging gaps: inpatient management of extreme anorexia nervosaInternational Clinical and Medical Case Reports Journal · 2024
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: more discreet than you might thinkSociety of General Internal Medicine · Washington, DC · 2026
- Serum sickness-like reaction in a pediatric patient after minocyclineUSC Discover Day · 2026
- West Nile virus meningitis in an older adult with complex comorbiditiesUSC Discover Day · 2025
- Critical care management of an acute anti-IgLON5 disease flareUSC Discover Day · 2025
- Daptomycin-induced pneumonia: where are the eosinophils?CHEST · Boston · 2024
- Acute mediastinitis and pericardial effusion after EBUS-TBNACHEST · Boston · 2024
- Acute limb ischemia after recent left heart catheterizationSC ACP · Greenville · 2024
- Hemodynamic and vascular complications from a large atrial myxomaSC ACP · Greenville · 2024
- Leflunomide as a potential cause of acute on chronic hypoxic respiratory failureSC ACP · Greenville · 2024
- Recurrent vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage in pregnancySC ACP · Greenville · 2024
- Identifying barriers to inpatient management of severe anorexia nervosaSouth Carolina Medical Association · 2024
- An ominous spleenSGIM Southern Region · New Orleans · 2024
- 80 pound weight gain: a case of CHF-induced ascitesSGIM Southern Region · New Orleans · 2024
- Introduction to medical researchLecture to M3 students and IM residents · USC SOM
- Introduction to chest pain and inpatient cardiac complaintsLecture to M2 students · USC SOM
- Extracellular pH regulates bone cell functionUniversity of South Alabama Hospital · 2022
- Finerenone protects against AKI-mediated chronic kidney diseaseUniversity of South Alabama Hospital · 2022
- Physeo OB/GYN, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics review textbooksContributing author · 2022
- Multivessel PCI guided by FFR or angiography for myocardial infarctionSpringhill Medical Center · Mobile · 2021
- Type 2 diabetes clinical review with comparison to LADAACOM Ashford Clinic · Dothan · 2021
- D.O. Book Club: When Breath Becomes AirThe D.O., American Osteopathic Association · 2021
Projects and leadership
Things I've built and led
Cardiology Interest Group
Founded a group within the Prisma Health IM residency to help aspiring cardiologists with networking, research, and preparing for the fellowship match.
Residency Research Committee
Led efforts to encourage and support scholarly work across the internal medicine residency.
Teaching at USC School of Medicine
Give a quarterly "Intro to Research" lecture to third-year students and a yearly clinical cardiology lecture to second-years, and mentor students starting research.
Ultrathon
Helped run a statewide yearly ultrasound event with lectures and friendly competition between medical students and residents.
AMA Student Chapter at ACOM
Started the school's American Medical Association chapter. Also served on the AOA's governance committee (CAGOS) and as a state advocacy delegate.
Auburn's The BIG Event
Led a 33-person team coordinating 500+ job sites for one of the largest student-run service projects in the country.
Sustainable school redesign
Auburn senior design project: a system to improve energy and water efficiency at Yarbrough Elementary while teaching students about sustainability and STEM.
Specialty Piping Products website
Designed and built the company's website and a multimedia portfolio of its products and capabilities.
AI and software
Building with AI
I pair my clinical knowledge with AI coding tools to build simulators, anatomy models, and research platforms. I work out the clinical requirements, check the medicine, and make the design decisions; AI speeds up the engineering.
3D anatomy · Live demo
A real human heart, in your browser
This model comes from my cardiac anatomy project. It's built from NIH Visible Human segmentation data, not drawn by hand, so the chambers, valves, and great vessels match real anatomy. I use it to teach medical students.
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Anatomy source: NIH Human Reference Atlas, Visible Human Male (CC BY 4.0).
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Medical education
Left heart cath simulator
A browser-based cardiac cath trainer for residents and early fellows. It uses 3D catheter physics and simulated fluoroscopy, so engaging the coronaries works like it does in a real case. It also includes hidden-pathology cases.
Transthoracic echo simulator
An echo trainer built from real CT anatomy, with ultrasound physics, acoustic windows, and heart motion. It follows standard cardiology display conventions and is meant for trainees I teach.
Research and clinical tools
Disease Atlas
A reference covering 15,000+ diseases, built from Open Targets genetics and drug data plus comorbidity tables. It includes AI-generated explanations of each disease.
Therapeutics Engine
A drug-repurposing engine that combines independent lines of evidence and tests itself against known drug–disease pairs before trusting its own rankings.
Medical Knowledge Bank
A personal evidence library that combines my notes with PubMed literature. It uses hybrid search, and every AI answer it gives must cite its sources.
What's next
Where I'm headed
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Now
Becoming a stronger cardiac clinician
Working as a cardiac hospitalist at the Heart Hospital, building hands-on experience with complex cardiac patients alongside the cardiology team.
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Now
Finishing in-progress research
Two LVAD outcome studies on pre-implant prealbumin and bilirubin and one-year survival, a national cohort study of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in septic shock, and a case report on Cutibacterium avidum pericarditis.
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Next
Cardiology fellowship
Applying to cardiovascular disease fellowship programs, with the long-term goal of interventional cardiology: coronary intervention, complex lesions, and structural heart disease.
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Ongoing
Teaching, mentorship, and AI tools
Continuing to teach and mentor, and turning my simulators into tools other trainees can use.
Contact
Let's connect
Whether it's research collaboration, fellowship programs, or teaching, I'd like to hear from you.