Jose Morey

Morey was born into a Puerto Rican family.^[6]

He received his medical degree from the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine.^[7] Later, he studied at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.^[6] He did his fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania.^[5]

Morey began his career as a radiologist in Eastern Virginia.^[6] Later, he joined University of Virginia’s radiology department as an assistant professor of radiology and biomedical imaging.^[5] He has also served as a director of informatics for Medical Center Radiologists in Virginia Beach, Virginia.^[5]

Morey has served as chief medical innovation officer of Liberty BioSecurity.^[8][9] He has also served as an advisor to MIT Solve and NASA iTech.^[2][10] He formerly was an associate chief health officer for IBM Watson.^[11]

Morey is on the board with the Medical Society of Virginia and appointed Director as of 2023, and features as a guest speaker, the Informatics Leadership Council of the American College of Radiology, Virginia Chapter, and Virginia Health Information (VHI).^[12][13] He is on the advisory boards for MIT Solve, a platform for social impact, and MIT Ideas, a yearly social impact competition for MIT students,^[14] SciTech, a nonprofit for aerospace research,^[15] and the National STEM Honor Society.^[16][14] Further boards Morey features on include: SOMOS Inc.,^[17] Immertec,^[18] Predictiv Care, Cemvita Factory, MaaPaa Organization, and the WHRO Board of Directors.^[19] He is a cofounder and currently sits as Chief Health Officer of Ever Medical Technologies; and, in 2021, helped to launch Ever Healthcare, their online medical outreach platform, in Thailand.^[20][21]

Morey is an advisor for NASA iTech, developing technologies and AI to be used towards the 2030 Mars Mission and the NASA Space Breathing Initiative.^[22] He has directed international teams of engineers to develop a database with NASA and NetApp for rapid COVID-19 response measures, now integrated into the US National Emergency Broadcast System.^[23][24] They have programmed AI to determine the best medical procedures in combatting and treating COVID-19. Morey has also served as a representative of the Polish Space Agency.^[25]

Morey has served as an advisor to the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology on their Kaggle CORD19 Project, in collaboration with high-ranking research universities, foundations, Microsoft, and the National Library of Medicine (NLM).^[2][26] Morey aided these parties in the development of an AI platform to analyze material on the Coronavirus family and COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2021, his novel, LatinX Business Success, co-authored with Frank Carbajal (president of Es Tiempo LLC), was released by Wiley Publishing.^[27]

Morey is an Eisenhower Fellow with the 2020-2021 Zhi-Xing Fellows Program.^[28][29] He is also a faculty member of the Singularity University.^[30] He is known as the first intergalactic doctor,^[31] and in 2019, Morey founded and became CEO of Ad Astra Media LLC in Virginia.^[32]

• The Future Shock of Medicine: How AI will Transform Disease, Death and Doctors
• Biofilms-Impacts on Human Health and Its Relevance to Space Travel
• Machine Learning in Radiology: Applications Beyond Image Interpretation
• Radiology's Emerging Role in 3-D Printing Applications in Health Care
• Latinx Business Success: How Latinx Ingenuity, Innovation, and Tenacity are Driving Some of the World's Biggest Companies