Roon Gives The World’s 14 Million Doctors A Trusted Space To Connect, Share Expertise, And Shape The Future Of Medicine
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Roon, an AI native community for physicians to connect, share medical expertise, and shape the future of medicine, announced its official launch as a dedicated knowledge network built by doctors, for doctors. Designed to fill the void of physician-centric online spaces, Roon gives the world’s physicians a high-trust environment to learn from one another, share and discuss emerging research, collectively advancing the practice of medicine worldwide.
Physicians are among the most curious, knowledge seeking professionals in society. Yet, until now, there has been no digital home for physicians to connect in a safe, trusted, and high-quality environment where clinicians themselves can gather to think out loud. For years, physicians have been forced onto tools built for everyone else, social networks optimized for engagement, not expertise, and professional platforms that flatten nuance instead of elevating it.
The community lost something irreplaceable when MedTwitter crashed, and no platform has filled that gap. Roon fills that gap with a platform purpose-built for physicians, where daily exchange leads to meaningfully improved patient care, continuous upskilling and innovation across the profession, and a renewed sense of fellowship & community.
“We built Roon from the ground up to capture the way physicians actually think and communicate,” says Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna, Neurosurgeon and Co-Founder of Roon. “There’s a layer of medicine that’s never been captured digitally: the clinical judgment, the debate, the hard-won perspective that turns experience and data into decisions. Roon is where that lives. And when those conversations happen at scale, research and insights that once took years to reach the bedside can spread in real-time.”
As an ideas network, every part of Roon is designed around how physicians actually think, learn, and practice, from how conversations surface to how expertise is discovered across specialties and institutions. But what matters most is how doctors are already using it:
- Seeking multi-specialty input on complex clinical cases, extending the reach of traditional peer consults far beyond their immediate networks
- Gathering feedback on draft manuscripts and research from trusted colleagues and subject-matter experts
- Debating new research, health policy, and emerging findings in real time, across specialties and practice settings
- Sharing strategies for navigating burnout, professional strain, and the realities of life in medicine
- Surfacing newly published knowledge alongside physician interpretation, commentary, and real-world clinical context
Supporting this is a platform calibrated to physician behavior, including a personalized, multi-specialty feed, seamless discovery of experts across institutions, dedicated spaces for cross-disciplinary exchange, and AI-native onboarding that gets doctors active in minutes.
Together, this creates a living network of expertise, where everyday interactions between physicians accelerate learning, sharpen judgment, and ultimately improve patient care.
“Pinterest showed that the internet could be organized around people, not just information. Roon takes that a step further. In medicine, the real value has always lived in people, in their expertise, judgment, and experience. At a time when many are trying to replace doctors with AI, we’re building a platform that puts them at the center, and uses AI to help their knowledge reach further.” says Vikram Bhaskaran, CEO and co-founder of Roon, formerly a Pinterest executive.
Roon has already attracted thousands of physicians across Cardiology, OBGYN, Nephrology, Pulmonary/Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine/Hospitalist Medicine, Oncology and Infectious Disease. In addition, the platform has already attracted a commanding breadth of medical expertise, ranging from dedicated community physicians and influential department leaders to former heads of the NIH, NCI, and CDC. The platform is free to download and available on the web at www.roon.com or the Apple App Store.
About Roon
A physicians-only knowledge network, Roon is a digital doctor’s lounge where the wisdom of one becomes the resource of many. It is a professional home where connection and collegiality thrive, providing physicians both camaraderie and support. It’s where the best minds in medicine, including Drs. like Mandy Cohen, Deb Houry, Bob Wachter and physicians worldwide, can exchange perspectives, spark breakthroughs, and reclaim the authority of expertise in a world that desperately needs it. Public trust in medicine will not be rebuilt by chance—it will be rebuilt by doctors, together, showing what science looks like when it is open, collaborative, and uncompromisingly human.
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