Richard Rox Anderson, FAAD (born 30 October 1950), is a Boston-based dermatologist and entrepreneur.

[1] Anderson earned his BS degree from MIT, and then pursued his MD degree graduating magna cum laude from the joint MIT-Harvard medical program, Health Sciences and Technology.

[2] Anderson completed his residency in dermatology and research fellowship at Harvard University.

[6] Anderson and colleagues invented a crude device to noninvasively remove fat by freezing it, in a process called cryolipolysis; and a startup company called Juniper Medical exclusively licensed patent filings on the invention from Massachusetts General Hospital when Juniper was founded; Juniper became Zeltiq Aesthetics.

[10] with assistance from Edith Mathiowitz, Joshua Reineke and A. Peter Morello of Brown University.