His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and Department of Defense. 

Dr. Dias is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Research and Innovation at the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, where he leads the Medical AI & Cognitive Engineering Lab.

In 2017, Dr. Garibaldi co-founded and became the first Co-President of the Society of Bedside Medicine, an organization devoted to education, innovation and research on the role of the clinical encounter in 21st century medicine. Dr. Garibaldi was formerly the Associate Program Director for Bedside Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Osler Medical Residency Program. He also directed the Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Center, a federally funded special pathogens treatment program. When the President of the United States became ill with COVID-19 in 2020, Dr. Garibaldi served as a member of his care team.

Dr. Garibaldi is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the American College of Physicians. He is also a member of the American Osler Society, the Cosmos Club, and the Johns Hopkins Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence.

Prior to medical school, Dr. Garibaldi studied flamenco guitar with El Entri in Madrid, Spain as part of the John Finley Fellowship at Harvard College. He has also studied classical guitar at the Peabody Preparatory in Baltimore. He regularly performs and has participated in events around the hospital designed to improve the clinical environment for patients, their families and healthcare professionals.

Dr. Garibaldi is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

His collaborative work through SAIIL with prestigious institutions like MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Cologne, and Duke Health is central to pioneering advancements in AI-enhanced surgery, aiming for its integration into surgical practices imminently.

Dr. Meireles earned his medical degree from São Paulo State University in Brazil, completed surgical training at Michigan State University, and pursued a research fellowship at Johns Hopkins University focusing on NOTES (natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery), robotics, and augmented reality in surgery. He further specialized in Minimally Invasive Surgery at the University of California, San Diego. After dedicating 13 years to Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as a bariatric and foregut surgeon and the Director of SAIIL-MGH, Dr. Meireles joined Duke University in January 2024.

His research is devoted to leveraging artificial intelligence, including computer vision and foundational models, to improve operational efficiency, enhance surgical outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and democratize surgical knowledge. He has made significant contributions to the development and application of minimally invasive techniques in gastrointestinal surgery.

Nationally recognized, Dr. Meireles has chaired the SAGES Artificial Intelligence Task Force Committee and led international efforts to establish standards for the sustainability and scalability of surgical AI.

Dr. Meireles is board certified by the American Board of Surgery.