Creativity is the life-blood for my work, my art and my life. I have been described as a mixed media artist and a ‘Renaissance Woman’; I prefer not to categorize myself. I am a Rhodes Scholar, Medical Doctor and PhD, and, more recently, a thought-leader in Stem Cell, and Regenerative Medicine. I am also a jazz-singer, writer and visual artist. For me, arts, music, the sciences, and entrepreneurship in biotechnology and regenerative health are interconnected and inextricably linked. I am grateful to be able to express my creativity and speak my truth using the symbolism of word and stories, as well as sound and color. I am thrilled to be on a journey of creative mastery, and creative mystery. I am grateful for my health, my family and for so many loving relationships in my life.

Dr. Desirée Cox (www.desireecox.com), was born in The Bahamas. Educated at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and Oxford University (UK) and Cambridge University (UK), she is the First Bahamian Rhodes scholar and First Woman from the British Caribbean to win a Rhodes Scholarship, a medical doctor, creative artist, inventor, and global thought leader in stem cell and regenerative medicine. In January 2019 Cox was one of 5 International Action Award recipients at the 2019 World Stem cell Summit, held at the Hyatt Regency, Miami; in 2018 she was a speaker at the & Unite to Cure & conference at the Vatican; in 2017 she was one of six outstanding Pembroke College, Oxford University alumni whose photographic portraits hung in the Great Hall at Pembroke College 2017-2018. These select alumni are persons whom the Governing Body and Art Committee of Pembroke College, Oxford University, have determined are distinguishing themselves in their respective professional fields, are thought-leaders, have achieved prominence in the public eye and especially through focusing their expertise on social impact. At the 40th Independence Celebrations, in 2013, the Bahamas Government honored Dr. Cox by issuing a 70-cent stamp into circulation bearing her photograph.
 

Dr. Cox is a bridge-builder advancing future health innovation both in The Bahamas and internationally. Her 20+ years experience in the healthcare space in the UK, Europe, North America and The Bahamas combines an impressive, rare and unique range of skills and capacities gained from a career that has spanned clinical medicine, academia, research and development, regulatory sciences, and the design, development and implementation of high–impact health and social enterprises. Her experience in health care consulting includes consulting for biotech companies and major pharmaceutical companies including Amgen, GSK and Novartis on pipeline therapeutic products and medical devices. She is rigorous in promoting safety, equity, diversity and inclusion in healthcare. Her vast experience includes clinical medicine, academia, research and development, regulatory sciences, design and consultant to biotech companies, governments and major pharmaceutical companies. She is the recipient of numerous international awards and has published in numerous trade and academic journals.
 

In 2016 she Founded The Health, Self-Efficacy, Analytics and Life-Design Incubator (The HEALinc) (www.thehealinc.com) in The Bahamas to  help entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders from local, regional and diaspora communities access the resources they need to improve the health and well-being of people in the Caribbean and the Americas. In 2018, she Founded the HEALinc Future Health Innovation Summit (http://www.healincfuturehealthsummit.com) as an annual Summit with the objective of catalyzing a global super-ecosystem for investment, research and education in Regenerative Medicine and Life-Sciences
Innovations for bridging to the future of health.