About Curēus
Based in Palo Alto, California, Curēus is the medical journal for a new generation of both doctors AND patients. Leveraging the power of an online, crowd-sourced community platform, Curēus promotes medical research by offering tools that better serve and highlight the people who create it, resulting in better research, faster publication and easier access for everyone.
We make it easier and faster to publish your work - it's always free and you retain the copyright. What’s more, the Curēus platform is designed to provide a place for physicians to build their digital CV anchored with their posters and papers.
Today, generating an audience for your paper depends almost entirely on a journal's circulation, limiting exposure to only a few thousand physicians in your field. Medicine is increasingly cross-disciplinary and physicians are reading thought-provoking papers from specialties outside their own - while patients have virtually no access to this important content. Curēus is cross-disciplinary and gives access to leading edge content to everyone.
Join the Curēus Community and help us revolutionize how medical knowledge gets published and shared.
Management Team
John R. Adler, MD — Founder / Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Adler is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford Medical School and has published more than 150 papers throughout his academic career. Dr. Adler is also the inventor of Cyberknife and was the founder/CEO of publicly traded Accuray Inc. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.
Thierry Thaure — Chief Marketing Officer
Mr. Thaure is a 30 healthcare industry executive. Prior to Curēus, he was Chief Executive Officer of Endomicroscopy leader Mauna Kea Technologies and trans-oral surgery leader EndoGastric Solutions. Previously he was Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Accuray and before that he was first Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Intuitive Surgical.
Chris Barretto — Director of Engineering
Graduating with a BS from UCSC in computer engineering, Chris has been developing web applications since Rails 1.2 in 2006. Before Curēus he was the Director of Engineering at SocialChorus and previous to that he was the lead developer at Real Girls Media. He's been involved with the full product life cycle from concept, to implementation, and to production while practicing the methods of agile, extreme programming, and team development.
Rachel Pollock Wurman, PhD — Director of Editorial Operations
Dr. Pollock Wurman is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in anxiety disorders across the lifespan. She has published numerous scholarly articles, chapters and reviews, and has presented her research nationally and internationally. She graduated from Harvard College, received her doctorate from Yale University, and is currently a faculty member at Harvard Medical School.
Alex Muacevic, MD — Co-Founder/Co-Editor in Chief
Dr. Muacevic is a widely published academic neurosurgeon associated with the University of Munich and is the Director of the Munich Cyberknife. He is currently the President of the Radiosurgical Society. Dr. Muacevic received his training at Ludwig Maximilians University, in Munich, Germany.
Mark Yarchoan, MD — Editor/Director Ambassador Program
Dr. Yarchoan is a resident in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with a BA in Neuroscience from Amherst College and completed his MD degree at the University of Pennsylvania.Advisors
Ted Driscoll, PhD — Mr. Driscoll is a Technology Partner at Claremont Creek Ventures. He is also an active angel investor in the Life Science Angels and a founding director of the Sand Hill Angels. Prior to his venture capital experience, he helped found five successful companies in imaging-related markets. Mr. Driscoll holds a PhD from Stanford University in Digital Imaging, Masters degrees from Harvard University in Computer Graphics and Remote Sensing and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He holds 40+ granted US and foreign patents in image-related fields.
Alex Popescul, PhD — Dr. Popescul received his PhD from University of Pennsylvania in Computer Science with a specialization in machine learning. He is Director of Search for BranchedOut and has an extensive background in search, complex data management, algorithm development and engineering. He was recruited to Silicon Valley by Yahoo where he served as a Sr. Engineer and Research Scientist before leaving to Yandex Labs as a Principal Scientist.
Trip Adler — John R. "Trip" Adler III is the Founder and CEO of the social publishing company Scribd. Scribd is the largest social publishing site in the world and one of the highest trafficked sites on the Internet. Mr. Adler grew up in Palo Alto, California and attended Harvard University where he studied biophysics and graduated in June 2006.
Tina Seelig, PhD — Dr Seelig earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stanford University Medical School. She is the executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the director of the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation, and is the author of the international bestseller What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20. In 2009, Seelig was awarded the prestigious Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering for her pioneering work in engineering education.