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Argonaut Ventures
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After graduating from medical school, Dr. Naythons combined hospital ER medicine with an award-winning career as an international photojournalist for Time magazine. While covering the exodus of Cambodian refugees from the genocide of Pol Pot in 1979, he formed and led International Medical Teams (IMT), a mobile relief organization that provided
medical care to Cambodian refugees and displaced Thai villagers from 1979–1982.
In 1991, Naythons founded Epicenter Communications. The company created prestigious photojournalism, multimedia, and Internet projects with a global reach. Projects included The Face of Mercy: A Photographic History of Medicine at War, with an introduction by William Styron; Sarajevo: A Portrait of the Siege, and Clinton: A Portrait of Victory—the first best-selling book to have an accompanying CD-ROM.
In 1995, after producing a series of user-friendly consumer guides to the world of new media, including editions of The Multimedia Home Companion, Naythons' Epicenter Communications published the first guide to online health: The Internet Health, Fitness, and Medicine Yellow Pages.
Later that year, under Naythons' direction, Epicenter formed two Internet health divisions: NetMed and NetHealth. Supported by pharmaceutical corporations, the company created some of the first disease-specific health sites on the Internet, including award-winning websites such as Diabetes.com, Depression.com, Obesity.com and Alzheimers.com.
In January 1999, Naythons joined PlanetRx and became Vice President and Publisher of the online pharmacy. In 2000, while still at PlanetRx, and based on research and writing he commissioned for Alzheimers.com, he co-authored There is Still A Person In There: A Complete Guide to Treating and Coping with Alzheimer's.
In 2002, Naythons co-founded EpiCom Media. EpiCom Media, like Epicenter Communications, produced large scale, multimillion-dollar photojournalism projects such as A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces and A Day in the Life of the American Woman (published in 2005).
In 2006, Naythons co-founded Argonaut Ventures LLC, which funds and takes an active role in developing early stage companies, currently specializing in online health.
He is a charter member of the International Society of Travel Medicine and the Explorers Club.
In addition to his BS from Muhlenberg College and MD from Hahnemann University, he received a Doctor of Humanities honoris causa from his alma mater in 1995.
