Caleb Massimi

Medical Student • Innovator • Future Physician

About Me

My name is Caleb, and I'm a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. I was born in New York, raised in Phoenix, and later returned to New York to attend the University at Buffalo, where I earned my Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences. My path through different communities and environments has given me a firsthand understanding of how deeply inequality, economic, social, and systemic, shapes people's access to care and quality of life.

Those experiences have become the foundation of my motivation to help build a more equitable and effective healthcare system. I'm driven by a belief that healthcare should serve everyone, not just a privileged few. To me, that means not only improving access but also raising the standard of care through innovation, efficiency, and ethical integration of emerging technologies.

I'm especially passionate about the potential of science, medicine, and artificial intelligence to transform how we understand and deliver care. My goal is to help shape the future of healthcare by adopting these technologies bravely but responsibly, ensuring that progress serves patients first and reflects the highest standards of compassion, integrity, and scientific rigor.

Currently

Last updated: June 2026

In clinical clerkships at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Passed USMLE Step 1. Continuing machine learning and sleep neuroscience research at Mount Sinai.

Recent Updates

June 2026
Beginning clinical clerkships at Mount Sinai, transitioning from preclinical education to direct patient care.
May 2026
Published in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology: our iRBD two-stage screening study combining questionnaire and wrist actigraphy achieved 100% specificity across five cohorts. View publication →
May 2026
Presented validation of the iRBD screening protocol at Sleep 2026, extending the multicenter cohort findings.
Early 2026
Passed USMLE Step 1, completing the final milestone of preclinical medical education.
November 2025
Completing preclinical education and preparing for Step 1, while continuing research at NYU (ADHD) and Mount Sinai (machine learning).
July 2025
Worked on my machine learning model for the early detection of a disease and co-authored a publication on adult ADHD: Pilot Trial of SDX d-MPH in Adult ADHD .
June 2025
Presented findings from my questionnaire project at Sleep 2025 in Seattle, Washington and finished my first year of medical school.
May 2025
Completed my duties as M1 class representative, serving my classmates to improve our experience at Mount Sinai.

Research & Publications

2026

A Two-Stage Questionnaire and Actigraphy Screening for iRBD in a Multicenter Retrospective Cohort

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology

View Publication →

2026

Validation of a Two-Stage Questionnaire and Actigraphy Screening for Isolated REM Sleep Behavior Disorder

Sleep 2026 Conference

Conference Presentation

2025

Pilot Trial of SDX d-MPH in Adult ADHD

Psychopharmacology Bulletin