Welcoming Alexandra Martinson, MD: a chief resident who speaks code
Alexandra Martinson, MD, joins Chiefly as an advisor. A 2025-26 chief resident at Children’s National with training in both medicine and computer science, she brings a builder’s eye to how chiefs schedule and how automation should earn their trust.
Welcoming Alexandra Martinson, MD
Chiefly exists so chiefs and program leaders can spend less time wrestling spreadsheets and more time leading their programs. Every advisor we add sharpens that mission.
Today we're excited to welcome Alexandra Martinson, MD, a 2025-26 chief resident at Children's National, as an advisor to Chiefly. She joins Alex M. Butler, MD, and Robert Casanova, MD in shaping how we build for chiefs, PDs, and DIOs.
Alexandra Martinson, MD: a chief resident who speaks code
Few people have built a residency schedule and written software. Dr. Martinson has done both. Before medical school, she earned degrees in both biology and computer science at the University of Maryland, then completed her MD there before training at Children's National, where she served as chief resident.
Her research sits where medicine meets computation:
- AI in clinical care: a 2024 review of artificial intelligence and machine learning for inborn errors of immunity, in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.
- Measurement from everyday tools: smartphone tests that quantify neurological disability in patients with multiple sclerosis, published in Frontiers in Neurology.
- Computational modeling: tailored nonlinear models of retinal ganglion cells, published in Scientific Reports.
That combination, a chief's instincts plus an engineer's rigor, is rare. It's exactly the perspective we want in the room when we decide what Chiefly automates and how.
What she's focused on
- Automation chiefs can trust: making sure every schedule Chiefly generates can be explained, questioned, and adjusted, never a black box.
- The chief's real workflow: grounding features in how chief residents actually build, publish, and patch schedules through the year.
- Measuring what matters: turning scheduling data into clear signals on fairness, coverage, and compliance that PDs can act on.
What this means for you
For chiefs, it means tools designed by someone who has sat in your seat. For PDs and DIOs, it means automation held to a research standard: transparent, measurable, and defensible.
See it in action
If you're a PD, DIO, or chief navigating scheduling, fairness, and compliance challenges, we'd love to show you what's new!
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