Meet The DermaSensor Team
Management Team
Cody Simmons
Chief Executive Officer
Cody Simmons
Cody is a bioengineer and entrepreneur that has focused all of his career on bringing new health technologies to physicians and patients. Most recently Cody led commercial efforts for a Silicon Valley medical device screening startup and held BD and commercial strategy roles at Genentech.
Ryan Freiden
Chief Operations Officer
Ryan Freiden
Ryan has over 16 years of experience founding and scaling companies in consumer goods, healthcare, and enterprise technologies. Recently, Ryan led the growth for a healthcare supply chain technology and previously ran the international manufacturing and distribution of consumer hardware electronics.
Larry Anderson
Chief Commercial Officer
Larry Anderson
Larry is a West Point Graduate with 20 years of medical device experience, specializing in building teams and launching disruptive technologies. Most recently, Larry led the sales team at Acessa Health to a successful exit to Hologic during the covid-19 pandemic. His previous organizations include Ethicon Women’s Health and Urology, Interlace Medical, Hologic, and BG Medical.
Gary Slatko
Chief Medical Officer
Gary Slatko
Gary has over 35 years of experience supporting the clinical development, medical affairs, safety surveillance and risk management of biomedical products, including 6 years at FDA. Prior leadership roles include CMO at Aquestive Therapeutics and at ParagonRx, LLC.
Jacqueline Barberena
Senior Director of Marketing
Jacqueline Barberena
Jacqueline has over a decade of medical device marketing experience with Abbott and STARLIMS, with expertise building and leading marketing teams focused on B2B marketing for similar primary care and diagnostic products that better equip HCPs for point-of-care testing and public health efforts.
Justin Frazier
Senior Director of Clinical Operations
Justin Frazier
Justin has been leading DermaSensor’s Clinical Operations group since 2017, responsible for executing the company’s pipeline of clinical studies. In his 17 years in Clinical Operations, Justin has worked with several medical device companies and CROs planning, implementing, and managing pre- and post-market medical device clinical studies. His previous employers include ReWalk Robotics, Smith & Nephew, Covidien/Medtronic, Massachusetts General Hospital, and PAREXEL.
Ruth Stachura
National Sales Director
Ruth Stachura
Ruth has 20+ years of medical device experience in sales, leadership, and navigating strategies across complex health systems with an undergraduate degree in nursing and an MBA from Johns Hopkins in Healthcare Management. She was recently a Vice President of Business Development at a cardiac surgery startup and has built successful sales teams across various med tech. Previous organizations include Integra LifeSciences, Edwards LifeSciences, Zoll, Maquet, and other tech startups.
Robby Simons
Director of QA/RA
Robby Simons
Robby is a seasoned professional with an impressive track record spanning more than two decades within the dynamic and highly regulated medical device industry. His extensive expertise encompasses a wide spectrum of roles and responsibilities, contributing significantly to the field of Quality and Regulatory affairs.
Kevin Scrimshaw
Commercial Director ANZ
Kevin Scrimshaw
20+ years of healthcare industry experience in Business Development, Sales & Marketing Management, General Management and Director for companies such as HP, Agilent Technologies, Philips Healthcare, Mindray Medical, and Stanley Healthcare, Kevin has extensive experience working with healthcare providers across the Asia Pacific region.
Kiran Chatha, MD
Clinical and Medical Science Liaison
Kiran Chatha, MD
Kiran has blended experience in clinical medicine and research in orthopedic surgery at the Cleveland Clinic with an expertise in study protocol design, statistics and data analysis through her MPH program. Most recently she worked in the medical device industry, specifically with regulatory writing for obtaining CE mark for surgical devices.
Jeriah Hercules
Operations Associate
Jeriah Hercules
Jeriah is a project manager and creative designer. Before joining DermaSensor, Jeriah received his undergraduate degree from University of Delaware and then moved to work as a UX/UI designer based in Philadelphia. Jeriah is passionate about creating user experiences and systems that promote positive impact.
Shannon Whiteley
Territory Business Manager – NSW/ACT
Shannon Whiteley
20 years experience in the health care sector, working with companies such as MSD, National Home Doctor, and Mundipharma. She has been involved with many projects working to identify and reduce treatment gaps and achieve improved patient outcomes. She believes that optimal patient management should be the first priority.
Board of Directors
Russell Ivanhoe
Observer
Russell Ivanhoe
A Board Observer for DermaSensor, Russell is a serial entrepreneur and executive (CEO, CMO) of digital health and medical device companies. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Russell was a lead interventional cardiologist at Florida Heart Group where he was also Founder and President of the Central Florida IPA and on the Board of Florida Hospital.
Maurice Ferre, MD
Chairman
Maurice Ferre, MD
Dr. Ferre is also the current CEO of InSightec, the former CEO of MAKO Surgical and a former VP at GE Healthcare. He has had multiple successful medical device exits (MAKO sold to Stryker for ~$1.7B), three CE marks, and successfully commercialized two products.
Ivan Delevic
Director
Ivan Delevic
CEO of OrthoSensor, Ivan is the former SVP of Sales, Marketing, and Business Development for MAKO Surgical, and a former GM at GE Healthcare. Ivan brings a wealth of domestic and international medical device industry experience from his prior leadership roles.
David Matlin
Director
David Matlin
David Matlin is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of MatlinPatterson and serves on the Boards of Directors of portfolio companies Flagstar Bank, CalAtlantic Group, Inc. and is also a director of Matlin & Partners Acquisition Corporation.
Cody Simmons
Chief Executive Officer
Cody Simmons
Cody is a bioengineer and entrepreneur that has focused all of his career on bringing new health technologies to physicians and patients. Most recently Cody led commercial efforts for a Silicon Valley medical device screening startup and held BD and commercial strategy roles at Genentech.
Christopher Dewey
Director
Christopher Dewey
Founder and President of The Cannon Group Inc, aka, Cannon Films, the first independent film company, Christopher later became a partner at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. Christopher is a Founding board member of Mako Surgical, (MAKO) and an early investor in companies such as Magic Leap and Auris Surgical.
Scientific Advisory Board
Todd Thames, MD
Todd Thames, MD
A physician with Grand Rounds and holds a MS in Health Care Administration from Trinity University. He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Family Physicians. He speaks nationally on topics ranging from cardiovascular disease, to medical ethics, to health care economics and policy. Dr. Thames has >25 years of experience in medicine and the practice of health care administration.
Paul Salmon, FRACP
Paul Salmon, FRACP
Dr Paul Salmon is a Dermatologist specialising in Dermatologic Surgery and Mohs facial skin cancer surgery in Tauranga and Auckland. He has over 20 years experience in Mohs, reconstructive, and cosmetic dermatologic surgery, with more than 50 published scientific papers on skin cancer.
John Geisse, MD
John Geisse, MD
President of Solano Dermatology Associates and Clinical Professor, Depts of Dermatology and Pathology at UCSF. Leader in Dermatologic and Mohs Micrographic Surgery, and boarded in Dermatopathology. Clinical Research background in basal cell carcinoma. Referral Practice in Dermatopathology and Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery.
Irving Bigio, PhD
Irving Bigio, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University and one of the top spectroscopy researchers in the world, Dr. Bigio is the original inventor and patent holder for Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy. He has authored over 200 scientific publications on non-linear and biomedical optics with more than 30 on tissue dysplasia and malignancy characterization.
Holly Christman, MD
Holly Christman, MD
Holly has a passion for helping primary care providers learn Dermatology and has been teaching for 3 years at One Medical Group. An Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at UCSF, where she completed medical school and her Dermatology training, including Mohs. Private practice in all aspects of Dermatology.
Giovanni Pellacani, MD
Giovanni Pellacani, MD
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. Research focus in the field of dermato-oncology, non-invasive diagnosis, cutaneous physiopathology and skin bioengineering. A leader and member of various European and international dermatology and dermatologic imaging societies.
Dr. Jane Grant-Kels
Dr. Jane Grant-Kels
Dr. Jane Grant-Kels is Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Connecticut (UCONN) Health Center and Medical School. She was the founding director of the dermatology residency program and founding director of the dermatopathology laboratory and the melanoma program.
David Leffell, MD
David Leffell, MD
Yale School of Medicine Professor of Dermatology & Surgery Chief, Dr. Leffell is the author of more than 150 publications including the popular book “Total Skin.“ He specializes in skin cancer and melanoma diagnosis and surgical treatment. The Cutaneous Oncology Unit that he founded in 1988 now performs specialized surgical treatment on more than 3,500 patients annually.
Cristiane Benvenuto, MD
Cristiane Benvenuto, MD
As CMO for DermaSensor and liaison for the SAB, Cristiane has extensive dermatology, digital health and business leadership experience. She completed both an MD and a PhD, co-founded two digital health companies, practiced as a Dermatologist for several years in Brazil, and was a Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering. She also holds an MBA from the Wharton School.