Reid Robison

Reid Robison, MD, MBA, is a physician turned data scientist with fellowship training in genetics and bioinformatics. He is also a passionate social entrepreneur with two successful exits from healthcare startups he co-founded, and founder of the Polizzi Free Clinic. Dr. Robison was formerly on faculty at the University of Utah where he conducted gene-finding studies in autism pedigrees using next-generation sequencing technology. Dr. Robison also co-founded the Utah Foundation for Biomedical Research (and its associated Institute for Genomic Medicine), a non-profit organization dedicated to finding the genetic causes of rare conditions, as well as advancing the field of genomic medicine. He was part of the team who discovered Ogden Syndrome, and has worked with a number of disease pedigrees using whole genome sequencing data to find the etiology of other unknown genetic syndromes. Dr. Robison has experience disrupting the healthcare system for positive change, and previously co-founded Anolinx, a healthcare data analytics company that was acquired in 2012. Dr. Robison is now working feverishly on Tute Genomics, a genome analysis and interpretation software company, to transform healthcare by bringing whole genome analysis and personalized medicine to the masses.