MD · PhD · CPE · FACP · AΩA · Dual board-certified — ABIM & ABOIM
The physician who writes the code.
Founder & CEO of Bray Health — bridging bedside realities, medical training, and enterprise technology, and building the software that runs them.
A dual board-certified physician, former Internal Medicine Residency Program Director, and software developer — so the systems he designs answer to real clinical constraints.
Practicing internal medicine since 2007 and a former IM Residency Program Director, with active clinical faculty appointments at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and UF Health. Dual board-certified in Internal Medicine (ABIM) and Integrative Medicine (ABOIM) — and ABIHM — with a focus on patient-centered care, lifestyle medicine, and modernizing medical education.
A computer scientist since childhood — programming from age five, lead network engineer for a satellite-telephony ISP while still in high school, with dual pure-math and computer-science degrees and an honors thesis in AI and machine learning. That background is why Bray Health exists: deep, hands-on engineering behind clinical operations — constraint-optimized scheduling (rPraxis™), education platforms, and AI workflows he builds, deploys, and maintains himself.
Bray Health runs on decades of hands-on computer science — not a recent pivot into tech.
He wrote his first lines of code at five, hanging around the local Apple user-group meetings in elementary school and getting an early taste of cybersecurity. By high school he was the lead network engineer for a satellite-telephony company's internet service and website expansion, and spent summers in computer-science programs at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Florida State, and the University of Florida.
He was the first to put Linux on the machines in FSU's computer-science department, and — still in high school — cracked a hard problem by writing his own parallel, distributed solver that ran across hundreds of university computers at UF. In college he finished pure-mathematics and computer-science degrees in under two years — with national invited lectures in topology and abstract algebra — and an honors thesis on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
That depth is the reason Bray Health exists: to put serious, secure engineering behind clinical operations — for training programs, clinics, and small businesses that could never staff it on their own.
His honors research was guided by Dr. Ernest McDuffie during McDuffie's years on the FSU computer-science faculty — a mentorship that deepened Dr. Bray's grounding in cybersecurity. McDuffie went on to lead the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) at NIST, where his team authored the National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework; he also directed the NSF's Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service and served in the Office of Naval Research and the national IT R&D office (NITRD). His own research spanned artificial intelligence — neural networks, expert systems, and automated scheduling — and information security. That lineage runs straight through Bray Health's work today: AI-driven, constraint-optimized scheduling and systems built secure from the first line.
Dr. Ernest McDuffie, Ph.D. — founder/CEO, The Global McDuffie Group · former lead, NIST / NICE · NSF Scholarship for Service · ONR · NITRD · 7 yrs FSU computer science
From the bedside, to teaching, to running an accredited residency, to the software that runs the program — traced end to end.
Completed an MD in internal medicine alongside a PhD in molecular genetics & stem-cell biology — the start of a career that would keep one foot at the bedside and one in the lab.
Split time between primary-care clinic and the academic hospital, teaching residents and medical students with point-of-care skills workshops and bedside rounds.
Took a primary-care clinic from a blank floor plan to a thriving, value-based practice that repeatedly beat CMS and commercial quality benchmarks, earning invitations to pilot Medicare and private delivery models.
Took a brand-new IM residency from concept to ACGME accreditation with commendation — authoring the application, building rotations and the milestone system, and recruiting the inaugural class.
Inherited a 15-resident start-up and grew it into a fully-subscribed academic program — recruiting 160+ residents across seven classes, expanding to 30+ inpatient, outpatient, and community rotations, managing $250K+ annual education budgets, and chairing the program-evaluation, faculty-evaluation, and clinical-competency committees. Graduates matched into competitive fellowships in cardiology, critical care, GI, endocrinology, and infectious disease.
Precepted daily resident clinics and taught a full procedure curriculum, while carrying managing-physician duties — EMR optimization, quality reporting, and the hiring and mentorship of new attendings.
Building the tools that modernize residency programs and independent practices — rPraxis constraint-optimized scheduling, next-generation medical-education platforms, and HIPAA-aware AI clinical workflows.
Speaking to educators, healthcare professionals, and executives on using AI, automation, and agents to take the disconnecting work off people's plates — so medical education, small clinics, and departments can run on what makes us human: deep social connectedness and collective creativity.
A foundation that spans medicine, the basic sciences, and computing — and seven states of licensure.
AΩA Honor Medical Society · pursuing ACLM / Lifestyle Medicine.
Languages: English (native) · Romanian (elementary).
Beyond Bray Health, Dr. Bray is the founder and physician of Archangel Michael Health — a subscription-based, telehealth-first Direct Primary Care practice blending evidence-driven Internal Medicine with patient-centered Integrative Medicine, serving adults across Florida, Georgia, Texas, Arizona, North Carolina, and New Hampshire.