My name is Josh Resnikoff, and I’m the Co-Founder and CEO of TMA Precision Health here in Boston. Before I tell you what we do, I want to share why we do it, because that’s where this all really starts.
About ten years ago, I was working as a biomedical engineer at the Wyss Institute at Harvard Medical School. I had built technology, published research, and even won awards for some of that work. But then something happened at home that changed everything.
My son, Shiloh, was about 18 months old when he started getting sick. Every three or four weeks, out of nowhere, he’d spike these massive fevers, 105, sometimes 106 degrees, that would last for days. We’d rush him to the ER over and over again. Every parent knows how terrifying it is when your child is burning up in your arms, and the doctors can’t give you a real answer.
Eventually, we found out it was a rare periodic fever syndrome. The diagnosis gave us a name, but not much else. There wasn’t a treatment. There wasn’t a clear path forward. It felt like we were on our own to figure it out.
That experience opened my eyes to just how broken the system is for families facing rare diseases. Even in Boston, with access to incredible medical talent, there was no roadmap, just stress, uncertainty, and years of waiting. That’s when I realized I couldn’t just accept “there’s nothing you can do.”
So we built something different.
At TMA Precision Health, and now through Sunstone, our mission is to change the way rare disease care works. We find patients who are stuck in this diagnostic odyssey, and instead of letting them bounce from specialist to specialist for years, we cut that journey down to months. We use technology, genetics, and data to uncover answers faster, and we deliver those insights directly to local doctors so families can finally move forward.
This isn’t about creating some big, flashy solution. It’s about making sure families don’t feel powerless the way mine did. It’s about giving them clarity, options, and hope.
That’s why we started the Sunstone Health Podcast. We want to share these stories, the struggles, the science, the hope, and the people working every day to make rare disease care better.
If you want to understand what families go through, why this mission exists, and how we’re changing the system piece by piece, I invite you to follow along.
🎙️ Tune in to the Sunstone Health Podcast and be part of this journey with us.