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For patients, dermatologists and researchers

Enabling better conversations with the right dermatologists

CIMOS (Comfortable in My Own Skin) helps people with rare or difficult-to-treat skin conditions.

Organize your information, use AI to prepare questions for your dermatologist, and check published research about your condition.

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CIMOS is not a medical device, and it does not produce diagnoses, treatments, or research.

Do you know anyone with acanthosis nigricans?

Initial program: idiopathic acanthosis nigricans

What CIMOS is

Ask better questions

Prepare editable questions from saved information to discuss with your dermatologist.

Keep your information together

Keep track of your conditions, symptoms, tests, treatments, care providers, and researchers in one place.

CIMOS prepares and edits questions from what you save, keeps your own view on your conditions, symptoms, diagnostics, treatments, Care Providers, and researchers, and checks published research on your current-focus condition.

Background

CIMOS starts with the founder’s experience living with a rare skin condition.

Patient / Founder background

CIMOS’s founder is the patient described in the published case referenced on our acanthosis nigricans page. A former MIT Assistant Professor, he coauthored research using novel data and machine learning to identify mental health risk among veterans. He also served as an Army Ranger and Army combat armor officer in Iraq.