In 2008/09, Sonny was an Astronaut Candidate at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and is an alumnus of the International Space University, a trained flight surgeon with the Canadian Forces, and was awarded a CSA scholarship to Johnson Space Center & Wyle Labs. While studying at ISU, he helped deploy the Image Reversal In Space (IRIS) experiment on the International Space Station. In 2010, while volunteering in Post-Earthquake Haiti, Sonny experienced first-hand the perils of inadequate health care faced by Earth’s most marginalized peoples. Intrigued by space-age solutions to the world’s health problems, Sonny co-founded Cloud Dx to create a fully autonomous ‘digital doctor’ called Vitaliti. Vitaliti was awarded as XPRIZE’s first Bold Epic Innovator as part of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE.