Robert Dotson MD

Robert Dotson MD General Information

Biography

Dr. Robert Dotson co-founded and served as Chief Medical Officer, Vice President and Board Member at LumiThera. Previously, Dr. Dotson maintained a solo Ophthalmology practice (the Refractive Surgery Center of Oak Ridge) in Tennessee for more than thirty years. He holds multiple US patents dealing with eye related devices and has been researching photobiomodulation for more than ten years. He has served in teaching positions at LMU-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (Harrogate, Tennessee), the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences (Memphis), and the University of Washington (Seattle). He is a co-founder of PhotoSpectra (Toronto) and Choices Anti-Aging Centers (Montana). He was awarded his MD degree at the University of Tennessee, College of Medicine (Memphis), completed his Ophthalmology Residency at the same institution, and was an Epstein Fellow under the sponsorship of the American IntraOcular Implant Society (AIOIS). He holds a BS in Zoology and Chemistry from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) and served in the US Army Reserves Medical Corps as an Ophthalmologist with the rank of Major.