Our Team.

Joyce Waterhouse, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Inlet Health, brings an unusually broad scientific foundation to the challenge of personalized nutrition, spanning ecology, immunology, and microbiome research, with peer-reviewed publications in venues ranging from Ecological Monographs to the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Her vision for the NIK platform grew from over fifteen years of self-directed research into the physiological effects of food, long before consumer wearables made such monitoring widely accessible. 

Meet the Founder

Sussi Bianco works with teams and organizations to turn ideas into action. With a background in computer science and innovation, she helps identify market opportunities, build strong teams, and accelerate concepts into real-world solutions. Her work spans municipalities, startups, and associations, where she combines strategy, community building, and hands-on execution. Known as both a doer and a speaker, she brings practical tools and energy that move teams forward.

Dr. Lie is a microbiologist with expertise in Environmental Microbiology, Microbial and Molecular Genetics, and in Diverse Microbial Metabolisms. He obtained his PhD from the University of Connecticut, Storrs,  where he, along with his colleagues, discovered a new pathway in the sulfur cycle, anaerobic sulfonate respiration, by sulfate- and sulfite-reducing bacteria. He then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, and remained there for the next 35 years where he led research focusing on Methanogenic Archaea and other anaerobic microbes mediating multiple aspects of the global nitrogen cycle.  He and his colleagues discovered a novel Archaeal repressor protein which controlled gene expression involved in nitrogen fixation; a process allowing microbes to feed on gaseous nitrogen for nutritional needs.  He also characterized novel microbes, researched their metabolic pathways, and investigated microbial interactions between multiple microbial species. 

Although his foundational training encompasses diverse species of microbes from a wide variety of environments, his primary research projects have focused on microbes in extreme systems, including high-temperature and oxygen-free environments. Dr. Lie advises on all aspects of microbiology, including microbial detection and isolation, as well as the interpretation of data from physiological and bioinformatic studies.

Douglas G. Sullivan is an experienced RN and Certified Case Manager with deep expertise in managed care, clinical program development, and population health strategy. He has trained over 10,000 primary care offices across California as a DHCS Certified Master Trainer and helped build HEDIS, Utilization Management, Case Management, and Compliance programs.

His work focuses on shifting healthcare from reactive visits to proactive, continuous care using remote patient monitoring and virtual care models. He now advises organizations on building and scaling integrated, digital-first care programs.