Rubin Pillay, MD, PhD is a Medical Futurist, Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Founder of FutureMed Academy, affiliated with the Marnix E. Heersink Institute for Biomedical Innovation. He is the developer of GenieRx, a multi-agentic AI clinical decision support platform deployed for frontline health workers in Zambia, Thailand, and South Africa — achieving 94.5% concordance with expert tumour boards. He is also the author of The AI-Native Health System (2026) and co-author of Healthcare at Machine Speed (2026).