
Dr. Emily Ross
Attending Thoracic Surgeon · Associate Professor of Surgery
Cortexia Health
Cortexia is not a doctor marketplace. It is a global medical-intelligence platform that brings trusted AI and the world’s leading medical minds to patients when the decisions matter most.
01 / Why Cortexia
Cortexia combines trusted medical AI — built with real-world medical records, global clinical evidence, and physician expertise — with world-leading specialists and Key Opinion Leaders. Wherever you live, we help you understand your options, reach the right experts, and find the best path forward.
A critical diagnosis can make the world suddenly feel very small. Cortexia opens it back up.
02 / World-Leading Specialist Network
When the decision could change the course of a life, Cortexia does not simply connect patients with the next available doctor. We prioritize world-leading subspecialists and Key Opinion Leaders — physicians who lead major clinical programs, advance new treatments, publish influential research, and shape clinical practice. The value is not a famous name: it is reaching the physician who understands this exact problem at the deepest level.

Attending Thoracic Surgeon · Associate Professor of Surgery
Senior Consultant, Thoracic Surgery

Attending Medical Oncologist · Professor of Oncology
Senior Consultant Radiologist

Attending Radiologist · Clinical Associate Professor
Matched by case need
Consultant Medical Oncologist

Senior Consultant · Professor of Otolaryngology
Attending Pathologist · Associate Professor

Attending Radiation Oncologist · Assistant Professor
Attending Pulmonologist · Senior Lecturer
Experts selected around the exact disease, procedure, therapy, or decision — not simply the broad specialty.
Field leaders who may shape research, trials, clinical programs, and evolving standards of care.
Video consultation when travel is unnecessary; coordinated in-person care when being there could materially change the opportunity.
03 / Trusted Medical AI
Cortexia’s medical AI is designed around real medicine: real-world medical records, clinical guidelines, published evidence, treatment pathways, drug information, and physician expertise. It structures fragmented records, identifies the decision that matters now, surfaces missing information, and prepares the case for expert review.
AI does not replace the physician. It gives the physician a clearer, more complete starting point — and gives the patient a way to understand what matters before the next decision is made.
04 / Second Opinion & Virtual MDT
For a defined question
The personal judgment of a world-leading specialist
Cortexia seeks the personal judgment of a world-leading specialist — reviewed against your complete, organized record and signed by name.
Learn moreWhen the case crosses specialties
The right experts, converging on one actionable path
Cortexia builds a Virtual MDT around the patient — bringing together the right experts to review one organized record and converge on one actionable path.
Learn moreThis is not about collecting more opinions. It is about finding the opinion with enough depth, context, and authority to change what happens next.
05 / Global Best-Care Search for Critical Illness
When an illness is critical, rare, complex, or no longer responding to standard treatment, the best option may not be in the hospital down the street — or even in the same country. Cortexia searches globally for the strongest realistic care scenarios, then helps compare them — medical fit, eligibility, timing, travel, expected burden, and cost efficiency — so the family can decide what is truly worth pursuing.
Bring a world-leading specialist into the case without leaving home.
When the expertise, procedure, or center justifies the trip, Cortexia helps build the route.
Search globally for potentially relevant trials and clarify eligibility questions for the treating team.
Explore emerging drugs, advanced procedures, and treatment strategies that may not be available locally.
06 / Global Patient Reach
A patient in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, or North America should be able to reach the right expertise without first knowing which hospital, country, or physician to call. Cortexia helps turn global medicine into a navigable system.
Records can be organized across languages. Expert review can happen by video. When travel is needed, the medical journey continues from the same case — history, questions, opinions, and next steps kept together.
Upload Medical Records07 / Critical-Illness & Specialty Coverage
Designed for complex and high-stakes conditions — the specialty areas where the right expert can materially change the path.
Treatment sequencing · surgery vs systemic therapy
Intervention timing · valve & arrhythmia decisions
Diagnosis confirmation · therapy escalation
Operability · approach & risk trade-offs
Surgery vs conservative care · revision decisions
Ending the diagnostic odyssey · expert identification
Listing criteria · center selection · timing
Complex congenital & oncologic decisions
Oncologic & high-risk surgical decisions
Strategy after failed cycles · lab & protocol review
08 / Trust & Medical Responsibility
Cortexia uses AI to organize and reason over medical information — but it does not allow AI to impersonate a physician. These boundaries are written into how every case is handled.
AI organizes records and evidence; it never issues a diagnosis, a treatment order, or an opinion in a physician’s voice.
Every formal medical opinion is personally reviewed by the participating physician — no review, no opinion shown.
Missing information is identified, not filled in. What remains uncertain is stated alongside what is established.
Danger signs are directed to local emergency care immediately — no purchase discussions, no waiting for an online reply.
09 / Start here
Tell Cortexia what is happening. Upload the medical records you already have. We will help organize the story, identify the decision, and show what kind of expertise or global care search may matter next.
The partner program is not open yet. Stay tuned.
If you’d like to hear from us when it opens, write to hello@cortexiahealth.com.
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