Christopher Morley, MD

Exclusive: Inside The World’s First AR Goggles For Brain Surgery (feat. @medivis_ai) Medivis raised $20M+ to build the world’s first FDA-cleared AR system for brain and spine surgery. The founders, Dr Chris Morley (Radiologist) and Dr Osamah Choudhry (neurosurgeon) realised that surgeons were still operating on your brain using flat 2D images and guesswork. And for high stakes surgeries, you cannot make any mistakes, so what if technology could help? We flew to New York, put the headset on, and saw a brain tumor floating in 3D in front of us. The question we wanted to answer was: Will augmented reality fundamentally improve the safety of surgery? Founded by Dr. Osamah Choudhry & Dr. Christopher Morley (@ctmorley). Backed by @ThriveCapital @MayoInvents @RobertIger @hbarra, Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) + more. (0:00) Surgeons are still operating blind (1:44) Dr Osamah: "Purely eyeballing it" (2:16) Every resident makes mistakes (2:44) Was Charlie Teo reckless or blind? (4:17) Live: Sachin see's AR brain tumor (6:30) Dr Chris: "A surgical co-pilot" (6:58) Why AI won't replace surgeons (7:47) Can AR reach underserved patients? (8:49) Does AI improve surgery safety?

Introducing Maia, the Medivis AI Agent—an intelligent assistant at the frontier of clinical AI and translational research. Powered by advances in vision-language models and context engineering, Maia supports workflows across medical imaging, surgical planning, and intra-operative navigation by seeing what you see, understanding software and user intent end-to-end, executing automatic and interactive segmentations, guiding instrument calibration and registration, and dynamically controlling visualization and interaction via natural-language voice and text. We’re actively collaborating with forward-thinking institutions, technology partners, and investigative researchers—reach out to gain early access and help shape this next evolution in care.

We’re thrilled to announce that Medivis has received FDA 510(k) clearance for our Cranial Navigation platform, becoming the first company in the world with an AR system cleared for intraoperative guidance in neurosurgery. This milestone brings real-time, AR-guided visualization directly into the operative field, supporting precision, focus, and confidence across a wide range of cranial procedures. Its portable design also enables image-guided navigation in settings like the ICU, bringing precision care to places where it hasn’t been possible before. Following our Spine Navigation clearance earlier this year, this achievement marks another major leap forward in making surgical intelligence a reality across specialties and care settings. We couldn’t be prouder of our team and partners who made this possible!