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title: Regulatory Affairs Veteran Brandy G. Robinson Named to Marquis Who's Who for Zebra MedNex, the AI EHR Platform Nominated for a 2026 Edison Award
description: Regulatory affairs veteran Brandy G. Robinson, formerly of Co-Diagnostics and Magic Leap, founded AI EHR platform Zebra MedNex, a 2026 Edison Award nominee.
author: Darie Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-09-04T14:41:35.259Z
updated: 2026-09-04T14:42:30.238Z
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    name: Zebra MedNex
    description: Zebra MedNex is an AI-driven electronic health record platform founded in 2023 by regulatory affairs professional Brandy G. Robinson after her own benign brain tumor diagnosis. It gives doctors scheduling, AI-assisted clinical notes, secure video consultations and messaging, gives clinics role-based dashboards, and gives patients their own login with appointment booking, messaging, a forum and the ability to browse clinical trials and research. Its predictive AI is designed to identify potential adverse drug events. The platform is sold as a monthly subscription with no contract and was nominated for a 2026 Edison Award.
    url: https://zebramednex.com
    foundingDate: 2023-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
    industry: Health technology
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Brandy G. Robinson has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who, the biographical reference that lists people on the strength of their position, accomplishments and standing in their field. She founded Zebra MedNex in 2023, a medtech startup that grew out of her own diagnosis with a benign brain tumor and a career spent in regulatory affairs for medical products.

Zebra MedNex is an electronic health record with artificial intelligence infused throughout. Doctors get scheduling, AI-assisted clinical notes, a forum, secure video consultations, messaging and the ability to [browse clinical trials and research](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/triomics-raises-22m-oncology-ai). Clinics get role-based dashboards. Patients get their own login, with appointment booking, messaging to their clinician, a forum and the ability to browse clinical trials and research. The feature that started the company is a research layer that surfaces relevant medical studies inside the platform itself, so that a doctor and a patient can see what has been published about a condition without leaving the system in front of them. The company was nominated for a 2026 Edison Award, the innovation prize named after Thomas Edison, and the platform is sold as a monthly subscription with no contract.

![The Zebra MedNex dashboard showing doctors, appointments, patients, clinical notes and AI research tools](https://cdn.nanimediahouse.com/zebra-mednex-dashboard-v1.webp)
*The Zebra MedNex dashboard — Photo: Zebra MedNex*

## An AI Health Record Designed From the Patient's Side

> "My own brain tumor journey taught me that these conditions manifest over time, and that patients often have unique, personal insights into what may have contributed to their diagnosis, from genetics to environmental factors to medications. I built Zebra MedNex so that knowledge doesn't stay locked away, but reaches the doctors and patients who need it, inside the systems they already use."
> — Brandy G. Robinson

Brandy spent the months after her diagnosis reading the research on brain tumors and talking to specialists, and three things stayed with her. Brain tumors and cancer share similarities. They do not appear from nowhere, but develop over time. And people who have lived with one tend to hold their own theories about what caused it, whether that is genetics, environment, lifestyle or a reaction to a medication. She counts herself in that last group. She believes her own tumor may have been induced by a drug she was prescribed, and the company's website puts it more bluntly, in her words: "I built Zebra MedNex after the wrong Rx nearly cost me my health."

Drug safety therefore sits close to the center of the product, with predictive AI designed to identify potential adverse drug events before they happen and reporting tools that let a clinic capture, chart and review incidents as part of ordinary work. The company says the system saves clinicians an average of $7,400 a year in time.

The gap Brandy is aiming at was measured by Balas and Boren in a 2000 study that remains the most quoted figure in the field. They estimated that it takes around 17 years for new medical evidence to reach routine clinical practice. A generation of tools has grown up to shorten that lag, from Wolters Kluwer's UpToDate to the newer AI literature search OpenEvidence, and the wider market for clinical decision support software is expected to grow from about $5.8 billion this year to more than $10 billion by 2031. Zebra MedNex differs from most of them by giving patients access to the same system, with the same trials and research their doctor sees.

## Regulatory Affairs From Traatek to Co-Diagnostics

Before she was a founder, Brandy spent years making sure medical and consumer products [met the regulations they were sold under](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/ai-agents-take-centre-stage-logicflo-s-2-7m-seed-backs-human-guided-automation-in-pharma). She served as Vice President and Head of Regulatory Affairs and Compliance at Co-Diagnostics, the Utah molecular diagnostics company, was Quality Assurance Manager at the energy drink maker Celsius, and worked as a Regulatory Affairs Officer at the neurosurgical device businesses Traatek and OMT. At Magic Leap, the augmented reality company, she was a Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist. Currently she is a Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist at a biomedical company, a role she has held since 2024. Prior to those posts she ran her own consulting and development practice, and she is a certified Six Sigma master black belt.

That background shows in how Zebra MedNex is put together. Compliance monitoring and safety reporting are part of the platform's standard tooling, and the company describes its approach to AI as clinician-controlled, with the doctor deciding what the system does with a patient's record.

## Advocate, UN Delegate and Lecturer

Brandy trained as a lawyer first, after a Bachelor of Arts in political science completed cum laude by the age of 20 on a full music scholarship. She took a Master of Arts in history at Jackson State University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Thomas M. Cooley Law School by 24. She later added a Master of Laws in transnational law from Willamette University and an MBA in international management and marketing from Northeastern University.

Her early legal career was in Michigan, at Brown & Stanley PC in Detroit from 2002, then in a prosecutorial role in the City Attorney's Office in Flint under Acting City Attorney Karen L. Folks, a post she held by the age of 25. She had already completed a judicial externship with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan under the late Judge Avern L. Cohn, interned for State Representative Jim Howell in the Michigan House and represented clients as a student attorney at the Sixty Plus Elder Law Clinic at Cooley Law School.

From 2014 to 2016 she was a United Nations delegate to the Commission on the Status of Women through the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Alongside all of it she has taught since 2003 as an associate professor and lecturer. She moved into online education at Kaplan University in 2005, in the early years of the field, and within three years was earning six figures teaching for several schools at once, more than many of her peers who stayed in conventional legal careers. She picked up three Excellence in Teaching Awards between 2008 and 2010, and today works only with academic programs that match her values. In 2017 she gave a TEDx talk in Portland titled "Your Narrative is Your Super Power".

She sits on the board of the Society of Presidential Historians in Academia and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, continuing a family tradition that began with her grandmother. She supports diabetes research in honor of her mother, takes part in a local meetup group advocating for low-income families, and backs brain tumor awareness alongside her Sjögren's advocacy, which follows her recent diagnosis with the autoimmune condition.

## Writing as Bea Giovanni

Under the pen name Bea Giovanni, Brandy is also a novelist and screenwriter. Her thriller "Bernice Rathe" has been adapted into a comic book series and a screenplay, and "Ebony and Ella" is a children's book series. She has appeared at comic conventions to promote the novel and its comic adaptation, and has more than 100 unpublished television and film scripts under review by literary agents and producers. This year, as a first-time screenwriter, she was named a finalist at both the Oxford Script Awards and the Cambridge Script Awards for "Bernice Rathe: The Awakening", with quarterfinalist placements in other major competitions in 2025. She credits the values behind all of it, personal accountability, kindness and making room for other people to feel safe, to her late mother, a social worker throughout her working life.

## Living With Sjögren's Disease and the Mission Behind the Company

> "No competitor can claim my exact lived experience. Zebra MedNex wasn't born out of market research. It was born out of my own journey navigating a brain tumor diagnosis, and more recently, Sjögren's disease. Anyone can copy code, but nobody can replicate a mission forged from personal survival and a commitment to making sure the next person doesn't have to suffer the way I did."
> — Brandy G. Robinson

More recently Brandy has been diagnosed with Sjögren's disease, an autoimmune condition that attacks the glands producing tears and saliva and which, according to the [National Institutes of Health](https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/sjogrens-disease), affects between one and four million Americans, nine times as many women as men. Her advocacy work now includes Sjögren's research alongside the company.

Both conditions have shaped what she wants Zebra MedNex to be. The company says it is built around [helping clinicians and patients](https://www.sovereignmagazine.com/article/surnacare-sura-fourth-trimester-ai-companion) rather than around a technical problem, and Brandy describes her vision for it as advocacy and empowerment rather than profit. The Marquis Who's Who listing sums up her career as a rare blend of regulatory expertise, creative achievement and entrepreneurial leadership.

## FAQ

**Q: What is Zebra MedNex?**
Zebra MedNex is an AI-driven electronic health record founded by Brandy G. Robinson in 2023. It combines clinical documentation, scheduling, video consultations and secure messaging with adverse event capture, compliance monitoring and a research layer that surfaces relevant medical studies and clinical trials for both doctors and patients. It is sold as a monthly subscription with no contract and was nominated for a 2026 Edison Award.

**Q: What is the regulatory affairs role in the medical device, pharmaceutical and dietary supplement industries?**
Regulatory affairs is a broad area of compliance, with roles running from specialist to manager to executive. These roles make sure a medical device, diagnostic, supplement or other regulated product meets the rules of the markets it is sold in, from pre-market submissions to post-market safety reporting. Brandy held these roles at Co-Diagnostics, Celsius, Traatek, OMT and Magic Leap before founding Zebra MedNex, and the platform's built-in safety reporting and compliance tools reflect that experience.

**Q: How do you get into Marquis Who's Who?**
Marquis Who's Who selects individuals for inclusion on the basis of current reference value, meaning their position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility and prominence in their field. Brandy's listing cites her regulatory expertise, her creative work as Bea Giovanni and her leadership of Zebra MedNex.

**Q: What is Sjögren's disease?**
Sjögren's disease is an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacks the glands that produce tears and saliva, causing dry eyes and dry mouth and sometimes affecting other organs. The National Institutes of Health estimates it affects between one and four million people in the United States, most of them women. Brandy was diagnosed with Sjögren's in early 2026, five years after her brain tumor diagnosis in 2021, and both conditions inform the mission of Zebra MedNex.

**About Zebra MedNex**

Zebra MedNex is an AI-driven electronic health record platform founded in 2023 by regulatory affairs professional Brandy G. Robinson after her own benign brain tumor diagnosis. It gives doctors scheduling, AI-assisted clinical notes, secure video consultations and messaging, gives clinics role-based dashboards, and gives patients their own login with appointment booking, messaging, a forum and the ability to browse clinical trials and research. Its predictive AI is designed to identify potential adverse drug events. The platform is sold as a monthly subscription with no contract and was nominated for a 2026 Edison Award.

[Website](https://zebramednex.com)