Ryan Shelton

Ryan Shelton is CTO and co-founder of PhotoniCare, a medical device company that has developed a handheld imaging platform that uses light to see through tissue. PhotoniCare’s first product, the OtoSight Middle Ear Scope, is a handheld device that can see through the eardrum to enable physicians to make better decisions about antibiotic and surgical intervention. Dr. Shelton led the company as CEO from its inception until May 2023, raising over $20M in dilutive and non-dilutive funding to advance the company’s objectives. Now he leads PhotoniCare’s technology team, driving strategy and execution across the product, manufacturing, and clinical divisions of the company.

Dr. Shelton received a PhD in Bioengineering from Texas A&M University in 2012. He has won multiple awards for entrepreneurial and technical achievement and is passionate about PhotoniCare’s current efforts improving the management of chronic middle ear infections in children, because of the frustrations he’s faced as a parent of his own children dealing with these chronic infections and hearing loss.