Tuyến Trần, MD

I'm a pediatric and plastic surgeon practicing at Vinmec International Hospital in Vietnam. My clinical work sits at the intersection of neonatal surgery and reconstructive procedures — technically demanding, evidence-scarce, and high-stakes.

The research world I entered as a young surgeon frustrated me. Papers were hard to find, harder to evaluate, and even harder to apply to real patients. The tools didn't fit the workflow of someone who also had a full surgical schedule.

So I started building. First for myself — scripts to check citations, tools to screen abstracts, pipelines to manage my reading queue. Then I realized other surgeons and researchers had the same problems.

That became ResearchCheck — a free tool that checks citation integrity, AI-written content, plagiarism, and peer review quality before submission. And a Learning Hub with courses on medical English, EBM, and research methodology, built for Vietnamese clinicians.

I'm also working on the A.x series — a set of perspective papers examining what LLMs are doing to the epistemics of science. Written from the inside: a clinician who reads papers, writes them, reviews them, and worries that AI is making all of it more fragile. They're under review, not published — but that's where the interesting thinking is right now.