Alexander Borve
Alexander Börve, is an orthopedic surgeon. CEO and Founder of First Derm. He is a scientific researcher in the field of telemedicine and has studied the use of smartphone technology and dermatology. In 2012 he completed one of the largest telemedicine studies on skin cancer detection, using a smartphone application. The study included over 1500 patients and showed that the technology could be an effective triage tool for the early detection of skin cancer and the timely manner of treatment. First Derm has collected a unique dataset of over 300 000 “amateur” skin disease images that has been used for machine learning and is today used as a “Skin Image Search” online. His technology to date has prevented skin cancer mortality, early detection of STD and peace of mind to worried individuals in 160 countries.
