Dr. Robert Colton is the co-founder and Chairman of Thema Brain Health, a new addition to the Research Park at FAU in 2023. Thema is revolutionizing how the world approaches cognitive brain health. Tremendous progress has been made in the prevention and treatment of all major diseases of aging except for Alzheimer’s Disease. While aging is inevitable, Thema Brain Health is on a mission to ensure that cognitive decline is not.
Before founding Thema, Dr. Colton founded two household names in South Florida healthcare. He co-founded and was chairman of ClearlyDerm, a dermatology company. ClearlyDerm currently has over five locations in South Florida with over 100 employees. Before that, Rob conceptualized and co-founded MDVIP, the largest concierge medicine company in the United States; he sold MDVIP to Procter and Gamble in 2009. Today MDVIP’s more than eleven hundred affiliated physicians serve more than 385,000 patients nationwide. Dr. Colton’s contribution to South Florida’s innovation and knowledge economy has already been distinguished, and his entrepreneurial energies continue with Thema.