RISK - Key Persons
Dr. Arna Gudmundsdottir takes an active role in all product development and clinical testing. Her expertise gives a valuable insight into practical usage of products and medical approaches. Dr. Gudmundsdottir graduated from the University of Iceland Medical School in '92. She undertook a fellowship program in endocrinology at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics.
Job Titles:
- Special Advisor
- President, Wagner Kapoor Institute
Dr. Arna Gudmundsdottir has spent decades treating people with diabetes and knows that effective treatment often involves encouraging patients to take matters of care into their own hands. She helped make this possible when she and her co-founders began working on a method to aid people living with diabetes in monitoring their eye health. They developed RetinaRisk-an app that helps people determine, through an algorithm, their individualized risk of developing sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy, one of the leading causes of blindness in the world today.
Dr. Einar Stefansson is a leader in the field of diabetic eye disease and diabetic screening and head supervisor for product development and clinical science. Dr. Stefansson graduated from the University of Iceland Medical School 1978 with honors. He received a PhD degree in physiology from Duke University in 1981 followed by a residency at Duke.
Job Titles:
- Special Advisor
- Senior Consultant, Sankara Nethralaya
Jo Kim - Chief Commercial Officer
Prof. Aspelund is a statistician and the main architect of the risk calculator has developed numerous other successful software calculators and serves as head of software development for The Icelandic Heart Association. Dr. Aspelund holds an MS and Phd. in mathematical statistics from The University of Iowa and serves as a professor at the University of Iceland.