We couldn’t be more excited to announce Rett’s promotion to Chief Technology Officer at SkinIO. Rett has been a true leader at SkinIO since he first joined us nearly three years ago, and he has his wife to thank for the initial connection: “It was my wife who came across the job posting for SkinIO; she said the company’s mission seemed really cool and that I should check it out. I was wrapping up my PhD [in neuroscience from Emory], and I was looking to apply my love of research in the healthcare technology space. Almost three years later, she was right – it was worth checking out!”
As an undergrad at Georgia Institute of Technology, Rett got involved in clinical research that focused on studying neurological diseases using medical imaging technologies like MRI. That experience combined with his natural love of research has driven the incredible impact he’s had on our product, user experience, and company culture: “SkinIO lets me explore and combine a lot of different things that have always been important to me. I love the excitement of research and having the space to build and try new things. We get to work with patients and put our technology to use to help people. And we’re really empowering a whole spectrum of users – from patients to primary care doctors to dermatologists.”
What’s next for Rett and his team’s evolution of SkinIO technology? “Right now we are researching adjacent products and industries that are also heavily using computer vision like virtual reality and augmented reality. There have been a lot of really exciting advances in those fields over the past several years, and I’m thinking about how we adopt similar technologies into our own products.”
