ABOUT US

Built by physicians, for physicians

FrontRx was born in the hospital. Our founders are practicing cardiologists who experienced the documentation burden firsthand and decided to fix it with AI.

Our Mission

Physicians spend nearly half their workday on documentation instead of patient care. FrontRx uses ambient AI to listen to patient encounters and generate structured clinical notes in real time. Our goal is to give clinicians back the time that paperwork stole, so they can focus on what matters: their patients.

Our Team

Robert Avram, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Founder & CEO

Robert is an interventional cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute and associate professor at the University of Montreal. He completed a 3-year post-doctoral fellowship in artificial intelligence and interventional cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco, followed by an interventional cardiology fellowship at the Ottawa Heart Institute.

He leads HeartWise.AI, a multidisciplinary research lab where nurses, engineers, bioinformatics students, and physicians combine medical imaging, signal processing, and deep learning to create practical AI solutions for cardiology. His lab has developed DeepECG.ai for ECG interpretation and CathEF for coronary angiography analysis.

Robert built FrontRx because he experienced firsthand how documentation burden pulls physicians away from patient care. He was named to the Cardiovascular Business 40 Under 40 list.

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Abhinav Sharma, MD, PhD

Co-Founder & Chief Medical Advisor

Abhinav is a cardiologist and clinician-scientist in the Division of Cardiology at McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre. He earned his medical degree and completed internal medicine training at McMaster University, followed by a cardiology fellowship at the University of Alberta. He holds a PhD in epidemiology focused on the intersection of type 2 diabetes and heart failure.

His post-doctoral training includes a cardiovascular research fellowship at the Duke Clinical Research Institute and an advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation fellowship at Stanford University. He directs the DREAM-CV lab at McGill, pioneering the use of AI to accelerate the identification of new therapies for cardiometabolic diseases.

Abhinav has authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications, serves as Director of the MDCM-PhD Program at McGill Faculty of Medicine, and is recognized as a World Heart Federation Emerging Leader and a Fonds de Recherche du Quebec chercheur-clinicien scholar.

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Dominique Payette

Technology & Privacy Counsel

Dominique is a seasoned technology and privacy counsel. She currently works at Dialogue, a pan-Canadian virtual care provider, where she is the Privacy Officer and the Director of the legal privacy and health regulatory functions. Dominique champions a privacy-first culture, embedding best practices across AI initiatives throughout their lifecycle.

Before joining Dialogue, Dominique held in-house counsel roles at major financial institutions (National Bank and RBC) where she led the implementation of privacy and fairness-by-design frameworks and compliance initiatives in response to evolving legal and policy requirements.

Dominique holds a Master of Laws focused on robo-advisors. In parallel to her corporate role, she teaches AI law at the University of Montreal.