About Kathero
Built from the bedside up.
Kathero exists because its founder spent fourteen years inside the problem — as a dietary aide, a nurse tech, a trauma nurse, a physician, and now a clinical informaticist. The devices medicine is missing are obvious from the inside.
The founder
Kevin Malone, MD, HEC-C
Kevin’s path through medicine wasn’t the usual one. He started in 2012 pushing dietary carts in a Lafayette, Louisiana hospital, became a nurse tech, then spent nearly five years as a board-certified emergency room nurse — the person actually holding the devices that engineers design from a distance.
Then he crossed the line most people never cross: medical school at LSU Health Shreveport — MD with Distinction in Research and election to Alpha Omega Alpha — followed by emergency medicine residency at Baylor Scott & White, where he served as Chief Resident and received the Scott A. McAninch, M.D. Excellence in Teaching Award.
Today he practices adult and pediatric emergency medicine across two Texas emergency departments while completing a Clinical Informatics Fellowship — and runs Kathero, where the things that frustrated him for fourteen years get redesigned.
Along the way: 25+ peer-reviewed publications with 400+ citations, two U.S. provisional patent filings, national placement in the Society of Interventional Radiology Biodesign Competition, and the HEC-C clinical ethics credential held by roughly 500 physicians nationwide. He has also written two books on Stoic philosophy.
- 2012
Dietitian assistant
Lafayette General Health — the first job in the building.
- 2013 – 2015
Nurse tech, Emergency Department
Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center.
- 2015 – 2019
Emergency & trauma nurse (RN, BSN, CEN)
ED and trauma nursing in Lafayette and Baton Rouge. Outstanding Graduate, UL Lafayette College of Nursing.
- 2019 – 2023
Doctor of Medicine, LSU Health Shreveport
With Distinction in Research · Alpha Omega Alpha.
- 2021 – 2023
Founder & Chief Designer, Guise Medical
Pediatric device design — Fusion 360, Blender, COMSOL.
- 2023 – 2026
EM Residency — Chief Resident
Baylor Scott & White. Excellence in Teaching Award; built automation used across a 70+ resident program.
- 2026 —
EM physician & Clinical Informatics Fellow
Baylor Scott & White — and founder of Kathero Medical.
Credentials
The receipts.
From katharos — pure, spotless — comes the verb kathairō, to cleanse or purge, and from it catharsis: Aristotle’s word, in the Poetics, for the purge of pity and fear that leaves an audience renewed.
That is the design brief for every Kathero device: remove what harms. Keep what heals. Leave the room better than you found it.
Fourteen years of problems. Now, the instruments.
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