Dr. Lathan co-founded AnthroTronix, a technology innovation company established in 1999 that she led as CEO for over 20 years. At AnthroTronix, she led her team to develop DANA™, an FDA-cleared, mobile digital health software platform for the Department of Defense as a deployed diagnostic support to evaluate cognitive function during treatment for depression, brain injury, and post-traumatic stress. For this work, she was named a 2017 Woman to Watch by Disruptive Women in Health Care. She has served as principal investigator on multiple grants from funding agencies such as DARPA, NASA, NIH, and NSF.
Dr. Lathan was named a Technology Pioneer and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. She chaired the Global Future Council on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and serves on the committee to select the annual list of Top 10 Emerging Technologies. Additionally, she was chosen by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Lyda Hill Philanthropies® as an IF/THEN® Ambassador, to inspire girls to pursue STEM careers. She serves on the boards of several not-for-profits focusing on STEAM education: the KID Museum, the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation, and Engineering World Health.
Before founding AnthroTronix, Dr. Lathan was an associate professor of biomedical engineering at The Catholic University of America and an adjunct associate professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Lathan received her BA in biopsychology and mathematics from Swarthmore College, and an MS in aeronautics and astronautics and PhD in neuroscience from MIT.
