People ask why a practicing robotic surgeon would start a medical device company. The answer goes back a lot further than the OR.
My father was a pediatrician. Everyone called him Nino. He died of lymphoma when I was nine, and he's the reason I went into medicine at all.
In 2013, my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was a father of three young kids, suddenly staring at the same kind of loss I'd lived through as a boy. For years I'd told my children to take risks and chase what mattered to them. Sitting in that fear, I realized I hadn't been living by my own advice.
What scared me most wasn't failing. It was reaching the end and regretting I never tried. When that fear got bigger than the fear of failure, the decision made itself.
So I took the leap. I invented Safe-T-Secure®, the all-in-one positioner that secures a patient in about a minute, and I built a company around it. I named it NinoMed, for my dad.
My wife's cancer was caught early. She's cancer-free today. And every case Safe-T-Secure® makes a little safer feels like the right way to carry both of them forward.
— Anthony Visco, MD · Founder & CEO
