What Keeps Dr. Rassman Busy These Days?

Dr. Rassman, I am a patient of yours from years past and remember you were involved in many things over and above your hair transplant practice. Can you tell me what you are doing now and how you keep everything in balance. There are only so many hours in every day, so how do you cope?

I am very well organized, depend heavily on computers and software to keep my non-surgical work efficient, and I have a wonderful supportive staff that keeps me prepared. My thirst for information is helped by reading journals and magazines which cover the entire field of science and scientific discovery (such as Scientific American and The New Scientist), and each day I get an email from LBN E-Lert to keep me informed of the latest worldwide news. I must constantly stay in contact with the world around me.

Along with writing for the blog almost every day, I’m a surgeon, business owner, and inventor. I need diversity in my life, so I have invested time and money into a biotech company with their focus on rapid disease diagnosis and screening — Maven Biotechnologies. The best way to explain the vision of Maven is to imagine a disposable bio-chip (like a microchip on a small piece of glass or plastic) that can precisely test a drop of your blood for hundreds of diseases, along with your reaction to available drugs for the treatment of these diseases in just minutes! Now imagine visiting your doctor, who inserts the chip into a small desktop device for processing, then presents the results to you in the very same visit. This animation will give you an idea on how Maven’s unique technology will eventually facilitate the development of personalized medicine, a rapidly evolving change in the future of clinical medicine.

One recent invention of mine that I’ve worked on with one of my patients, is the newly patented Ski Brake, which will make it much easier for adults to learn how to ski. One prototype has been developed and you can view a simple animation of how it works.

I live and feel every minute I am alive and am fortunate to have the health and the associates to make these dreams turn into a reality. This is no different than what Dr. Bob Bernstein and I did in the 1990s to change the way hair transplantation is done.