In this article, Roger Boodoo, MD, explores how Marie Curie’s wartime innovation—bringing mobile X-ray units to the battlefield—reshaped medicine and set the stage for modern point-of-care imaging. Drawing parallels to today, Dr. Boodoo connects Curie’s legacy to HOPPR’s mission of delivering AI-driven insights directly into clinical workflows.

Admiral Grace Hopper’s backward-running clock wasn’t a quirk — it was a call to rethink what’s “normal.” In this piece, Dr. Roger Boodoo connects her legacy of challenging defaults to the evolution of healthcare AI, exploring how interoperability, reliability, and intent-driven systems are shaping the next frontier at HOPPR.

Admiral Grace Hopper turned a backward clock into a philosophy — a reminder to question every “we’ve always done it this way.” In this reflection, Dr. Roger Boodoo traces her journey from breaking Navy barriers to revolutionizing computing, connecting her spirit of innovation to how we think, build, and improve at HOPPR.

With the close of its Series A funding round, HOPPR is entering a pivotal new chapter — one focused not on invention, but on execution. In a conversation with HOPPR CEO and co-founder Dr. Khan Siddiqui, we discussed what this funding milestone enables, why timing matters, and what it really means to build AI that works in the real world.