Founders

R. Rox Anderson, M.D.
Dr. R. Rox Anderson is a leading dermatologist. He is currently a faculty member at the Harvard School of medicine, as well as the Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Laser Center, and leads a research group at the Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine.

Dr. Anderson graduated from MIT and later received his MD degree magna cum laude from the joint MIT-Harvard medical program, Health Sciences and Technology. After completing residency in dermatology and research fellowships at Harvard, he joined the faculty.

Dr. Anderson conceived and developed many of the non-scarring laser treatments now widely used in dermatology. These include selective photothermolysis for birthmarks, microvascular and pigmented lesions, tattoo and permanent hair removal. He also contributed to laser lithotripsy, laser angioplasty, photodynamic therapy, and optical diagnostics. The highest-resolution imaging device approved for human use, an infrared confocal microscope, recently came from his laboratory. Dr. Anderson has contributed to basic knowledge of human photobiology, drug photosensitization mechanisms, tissue optics, and laser-tissue interactions. He has authored or co-authored 175 research papers, and 65 issued patents.

Craig A. Drill
Craig Drill is the founder of Craig Drill Capital, a private hedge fund group based in New York City. He is the Manager of the General Partner of Craig Drill Capital, L.P. and the President of the Investment Manager of Craig Drill Capital Limited.

Mr. Drill is also a co-founder of the Atlas Real Estate Funds, Inc.; Freedom-2 Holdings, Inc.; and RejuveDent, LLC. He is a Corporate Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow in the American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery.

Mr. Drill is a past Member of the General Partner of JetCap Partners and of the Advisory Boards of Arlington Capital Management, Conus Partners, Pacific American Investors, and Swan Mountain Capital, as well as having been a financial advisor to the Board of Trustees of the YMCA Retirement Fund. In addition, he is a past Member of the Board of Directors of Ardent Sound, Guided Therapy Systems, ULThera, Trex Enterprises, and The U.S.-Baltic Foundation, and a past board observer of American DG, American Biophysics, ENCORP, and Tecogen.

Mr. Drill received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1969 and his BA from Princeton University in 1964. He served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1964 to 1967.

Bruce Klitzman, Ph.D.
Bruce Klitzman, Ph.D. is currently senior director of the Kenan Plastic Surgery Research Labs at Duke University. He received a BSE degree from Duke University in Biomedical Engineering and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Dr. Klitzman’s faculty appointments include positions with the University of Arizona, Louisiana State University, and Duke University—with which he has been associated since 1985.

He is an expert in biomaterials, microencapsulation, biosensors, wound-healing and tissue response to implanted devices. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles and has served on the editorial boards of numerous scientific journals.

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Kim Edward Koger, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Kim Edward Koger, M.D., F.A.C.S, holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and a Doctorate of Medicine from the Duke University School of Medicine. He completed a five-year residency in general surgery at Stanford University Medical Center, a residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Duke Medical Center, and a hand surgery fellowship at The Kleinert Institute of Hand and Microsurgery.

He is board certified, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Inc. and of the Palm Beach County Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Inc. He is a staff member at the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery at Jupiter Medical Center and Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center.

Dr. Koger has lectured both nationally and internationally on topics in plastic surgery and has published numerous articles in plastic surgery literature. He has a special interest in facial cosmetic surgery and breast surgery.

Massachusetts General Hospital
Founded in 1811, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is the third oldest general hospital in the United States and the oldest and largest in New England. The 900-bed medical center offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery.

Each year, MGH admits more than 46,000 inpatients and handles nearly 1.5 million outpatient visits at its main campus and at its four health centers. Its Emergency Department records nearly 80,000 visits annually. MGH is the only hospital in the United States to hold concurrent Level
1 verification for adult and pediatric trauma and burn care. The surgical staff performs more than 35,000 operations and the MGH Vincent Obstetrics Service delivers more than 3,500 babies
each year.

MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the country, with an annual research budget of approximately $500 million. It is the oldest and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, where nearly all MGH staff physicians serve on the faculty. MGH is consistently ranked among the nation’s top five hospitals by U.S. News and World Report. In March 1994, the MGH joined with Brigham and Women's Hospital to form Partners HealthCare System, Inc., an affiliation established to create an integrated health care delivery system providing excellent, cost-effective care while maintaining the hospital's historic dedication to teaching and research.

Suzanna Mlynarczyk-Evans, Ph.D.
Dr. Mlynarczyk-Evans co-founded Freedom2 in 1997 and worked in the areas of product
design, patent drafting and licensing, market research and business planning for the Company’s first two years.

Since then, she has pursued her career in basic science research, and is currently the Beckman Senior Research Post-doctoral Fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on understanding the regulation of chromosome function in animal cells to ensure proper embryonic development and adult health through cancer prevention.

She earned her A.B. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Harvard University and her Ph.D.
in Cell Biology from the University of California, San Francisco.

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