Won national science award (CXC best in country). First-gen to leave.
Dual-trained: medicine + computational genomics. One of the hardest programs in the world.
Built StarGEO: 2M+ genomic samples, published Nature Scientific Data. $634K NIH grant as PI.
$2M Florida Cancer Innovation Award. Built MammoChat. Then watched 1,800 faculty leave after state legislation gutted the university.
6 patent families filed. All 14 years of clinical AI governed under one framework. The system that governs AI now governs itself.
A Trinidad-born physician with $38M in NIH grants just filed 6 patents on the governance layer that healthcare AI has been missing. His framework catches 82% of the violations that cost the top 20 health systems $255 billion. With the EU AI Act 4 months away, he may have built the compliance engine the industry needs.
Dexter Hadley left a tenured academic career after watching Florida politics gut his university. Now he runs CANONIC from his garage (six kids make the house too loud), and 15 Caribbean nations have endorsed his clinical AI platform. The Caribbean launch in July could become a model for how small island states leapfrog continents on AI regulation.
Most AI governance is a PDF someone wrote after the product shipped. CANONIC compiles governance into the system: 255-bit verification across 8 dimensions, cryptographic attestation, and an agent that enforces its own contracts. 1,149 Claude sessions documented. The agent that builds the system is governed by the same system it builds.
While Congress debates AI regulation, a physician-engineer has already deployed governed AI across 51 hospitals, 4 clinical trials, and 15 Caribbean nations. 20,000+ patient interactions in production with traceable evidence chains. The data says governance-first AI doesn't just work; it works better.