Dr. Bin Rao

Dr. Bin Rao co-founded TrustedInkAway LLC and works as a laser clinician. He holds clinical certification to perform laser treatments at the clinic and is a certified laser clinician.

His background is in laser medicine, including laser diagnosis and laser treatment of diseases. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic at the University of California, Irvine, and completed post-doctoral training at Washington University in Saint Louis. He has worked on laser treatment of port-wine stains since his graduate studies, worked with Dr. J. Stuart Nelson and associates on that research, and was awarded an NIH grant to study port-wine stain disease in children at Washington University. He also served as an NIH-supported extramural principal investigator on port-wine stain disease.

He founded AppliedBiopticsLLC, a St. Louis startup commercializing his invention in selective photothermolysis, and worked there on selective photothermolysis techniques for skin diseases and laser tattoo removal. He is currently developing next-generation selective photothermolysis laser machines for beauty and healthcare. He has more than 15 years of experience in laser medicine.