20+
Years In Healthcare
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Rod’s Journey
Joined PUCRS CIM Lab in Porto Alegre, Brazil as a Researcher, creating a novel 3D tooth-modeling solution.
2003
Co-founded Aquila Medical Innovation as CEO, building an end-to-end AI breast imaging solution for mammography service providers.
2019
Co-founded Gradient Health as CRO, building a medical imaging data platform that partners with data providers globally to curate pathology datasets for AI research labs and corporations.
2020
2016
Became Commercial Operations Manager at ABB, managing a team of Proposal Managers and overseeing pricing analysis, bid strategy, and pipeline forecasting.
2019
Co-founded Amplifi Labs as CEO, a full-service app development agency using the Build, Measure, Learn methodology.
About Gradient Health
Founded - 2020 | Durham, NC | Stage - Private, early-growth
Highlight
Gradient Health provides de-identified medical imaging data and search tools for healthcare AI development.
Problem
Medical AI teams need representative, well-labeled imaging data to train and validate models, but access to usable clinical imaging datasets is slow, fragmented, and compliance-heavy.
USP
Gradient’s Atlas Product Suite lets AI developers search medical imaging studies by DICOM tag, pathology, body part, and demographic attributes. NIH’s company showcase describes Atlas as a medical image search tool for in-depth data sourcing.
Key Milestones
2020
Founded in Durham to improve access to medical imaging data for healthcare AI.
2022
Expanded partnerships and imaging data access for AI developers.
2023
Featured in NIH portfolio/company showcase activity.
2025
Introduced Atlas 2 as the next evolution in medical imaging data access. Public materials described access to more than 19 million imaging studies.
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