 This month, Health Imaging & IT
is featuring 100 physicians,
administrators and thoughtleaders from healthcare facilities nominated
by our readers. From March 4th through April 15th, readers submitted
nominations via internet ballot by the hundreds. Our editorial team
culled through the entries seeking variety and breadth. In the next
several pages, you will meet the "100 Names You Need to Know" (listed
in alphabetical order) in a cross-section of medical specialties - from
CT, mammography and cardiology to PACS, EMR and Informatics. A key
for the abbreviations of the areas of expertise is located at the
bottom of this page.
Michael Albertina, Administrative Director of Imaging Services, Saint Louis University Hospital, St. Louis, Mo.
• area of expertise: ARC
Courtney Allen, PACS Manager, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Wash.
• areas of expertise: CAD, CR, CT, DICOM, MAMMO, DR, DISREC, IS, MRI, S/A
Katherine Andriole, PhD, Assistant Medical Director, Imaging
Information Technologies and Director of Imaging Informatics, Brigham
and Women's Center for Evidence-Based Imaging, Boston, Mass.
• areas of expertise: IMS, INFM, S/A
Tim Attebery, Chief Executive Officer, South Carolina Heart Center, Columbia, S.C.
• area of expertise: CARDIO
Robert Baumgartner, CEO, Center for Diagnostic Imaging, Minneapolis, Minn.
• area of expertise: IMS
Stan Bigham, Administrator, Arcadia Health Care, Marquette, Mich.
• area of expertise: IMS
David A. Bluemke, MD, PhD, Clinical Director, MRI and Associate Professor, Radiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
• areas of expertise: MRI, MAMMO
Lawrence Boxt, MD, Professor of Clinical Radiology, Department
of Radiology Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
and Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Imaging, Beth Israel
Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
• areas of expertise: CT, CCL, CARDIO
William G. Bradley, Jr., MD, PhD, FACR, Chair of the Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine
• areas of expertise: MRI, NM, MI
David Brailer, MD, PhD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services,Washington, D.C.
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areas of expertise: EMR, INFM, IS
Elizabeth Branscomb, MD, Nuclear Cardiologist, CardioVascular Associates, Birmingham, Ala.
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areas of expertise: CARDIO, NM
Michael Brant-Zawadzki, MD, Medical Director, Radiology, Hoag Memorial Hospital, Newport Beach, Calf.
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areas of expertise: 3D, MGMT, IMS, MRI, TELERAD
R. James Brenner, MD, JD, FACR, FCIM, Medical Director of Breast
Imaging Services, Eisenberg Keefer Breast Center, St. John's Health
Center, Santa Monica, Calif. and Clinical Professor of Radiology,
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif.
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areas of expertise: MAMMO, U/S, MRI
Patrice Bret, MD, FRCPC, Radiologist-in-Chief, University Health Network, Toronto, Ont., Canada
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area of expertise: MGMT
William F. Bria II, MD, President, Association of Medical
Directors of Information Systems, Director, Medical Center, University
of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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areas of expertise: INFM, IS
David Brown, Director Information Systems, Imaging, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif.
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area of expertise: IS
Kish Chakrabarti, PhD, Senior Physicist, Radiology Devices
Branch, Office of Device Evaluation, Center for Devices and
Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Md.
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area of expertise: MAMMO
Paul J. Chang, Professor and Chief of Radiology Informatics, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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areas of expertise: INFM, IS, INTVRAD
David Channin, MD, Associate Professor, Chief of Imaging Informatics, PACS, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.
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areas of expertise: INFM, DICOM, IS
Avery Cloud, CIO, New Hanover Health Network, Wilmington, N.C.
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areas of expertise: CARDIO, DICOM, DISREC, EMR, IMS, IS, S/A, TELERAD, WIFI
Fergus V. Coakley, MD, Associate Professor and Chief of
Abdominal Imaging, Abdominal Imaging Section, Department of Radiology
and Associate Professor, Department of Urology, University of
California, San Francisco
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areas of expertise: CT, MRI
R. Edward Coleman, MD, Vice Chairman, Department of Radiology;
Professor, Radiology; Chief, Nuclear Medicine, Duke University Medical
Center, Durham, N.C.
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areas of expertise: MI, NM
Robert Colones, Chief Executive Officer, McLeod Health, Florence, S.C.
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areas of expertise: INFM, IS
Anders Dale, Professor, Department of Neurosciences and Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calf.
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areas of expertise: 3D, MRI, S/A, TELERAD
Joan Dechert, MHIS, RT (R), Director of Imaging, Roper St Francis Healthcare, Charleston, S.C.
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area of expertise: IMS
D. David Dershaw, MD, FACR, Director, Breast Imaging, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.
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areas of expertise: MAMMO, MRI, U/S
Greggory R. DeVore, MD, Intermountain Fetal Diagnostic Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
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areas of expertise: 3D, U/S
Sheryl Dodds, RN, MS, Chief Executive Officer, Nebraska Heart Institute Heart Hospital, Lincoln, Neb.
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area of expertise: CARDIO
James S. Donaldson, MD, Chairman, Medical Imaging (Radiology),
Earl J. Frederick Professor of Radiology, Professor of Radiology,
Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Children's
Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Ill.
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areas of expertise: MRI, CT
Keith Dreyer, MD, Vice Chairman of Radiology Computing and
Information Sciences, Instructor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School,
Corporate Director, Medical Imaging, Partners Health System, Boston,
Mass.
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areas of expertise: 3D, ARC, CAD, DR, DISREC, EMR, HAND, IMS, INFM, IS, MRI, S/A, TELERAD, WIFI
Paul H. Ellenbogen, MD, Chairman, Department of Radiology and Medical Director of Imaging Services, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, Texas
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area of expertise: U/S
Dennis Enloe, Director of Medical Imaging, Phelps County Regional Medical Center, Rolla, Mo.
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area of expertise: NM
Bradley Erickson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minn.
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areas of expertise: IMS, IS, MRI, CT
Greg Fairbanks, PACS coordinator, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas
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areas of expertise: 3D, CCL, CR, IMS, INTVRAD, S/A
Liz Feegley, Director of Radiology, Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, Colo.
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area of expertise: MGMT
Stephen A. Feig, MD, Professor of Radiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Director of Breast Imaging, Mount Sinai Hospital, N.Y.
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area of expertise: MAMMO
Elliott Fishman, MD, FACR, Professor Radiology and Oncology, Director, Diagnostic Imaging and Body CT, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, Md.
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area of expertise: CT
Adam Flanders, MD, Professor of Radiology and Professor of
Rehabilitation Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson
University, Philadelphia, Pa.
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area of expertise: HAND
Kevin Frederick, Director of Information Services, Roger Williams Medical Center, Providence, R.I.
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areas of expertise: DISREC, EMR, IMS, IS, S/A, WIFI
Christine Galanda, Chief Information Officer, Wyoming Valley Health Care System, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
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areas of expertise: IMS, INFM, IS
Kim Garriott, Project Manager, Radiology Information Services, Clarian Health Partners, Indianapolis, Ind.
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areas of expertise: INFM, IS, S/A
Doris Gentley, Director, Radiology, Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Boston, Mass.
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areas of expertise: CR, CT, MGMT, DICOM, DR, EMR, MAMMO, MRI, TELERAD, U/S
Diane Georgian-Smith, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
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area of expertise: MAMMO
Michael Gibson, Director, Information Systems, Northlake Medical Center, Tucker, Ga.
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areas of expertise: MGMT, EMR, HAND, INFM, IS, S/A, WIFI
Gretchen A.W. Gooding, MD, Professor in Residence, Department of
Radiology, University of California, San Francisco and Chief,
Ultrasound Radiology Service, Department of Veteran Affairs Medical
Center, San Francisco
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area of expertise: U/S
Robert Grossman, MD, Louis Marx Professor of Radiology and
Chairman of the Department of Radiology; Professor of Neurosurgery,
Neurology, Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University Medical
Center, New York, N.Y.
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area of expertise: MR
Edward Gruver, PACS Administrator, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, Calif.
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area of expertise: IMS
David Gur, ScD, Professor of Radiology, Director, Imaging Research Group, University of Pittsburgh, Pa.
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area of expertise: MAMMO
John Gurley, MD, Director of Interventional Cardiology, Linda and Jack Gill Heart Institute at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ken.
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area of expertise: CCL
Jerry Hesketh, Director of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Sampson Regional Medical Center, Clinton, N.C
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area of expertise: MGMT
Gordon L. Hixson, MD, Director of Radiology, Women's Diagnostic Center, Chattanooga, Tenn.
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area of expertise: MAMMO
Udo Hoffmann, MD, Director of Cardiac CT Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
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areas of expertise: CT, CARDIO
David G. Holland, Vice President/CIO, Genesys Health System, Grand Blanc, Mich.
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areas of expertise: EMR, IMS, INFM, IS
Stephanie Iszak, Director of Radiology and Radiation Oncology, Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood, N.J.
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area of expertise: MGMT
Ramin Khorasani, MD, MPH, Director, Center for Evidence-Based Imaging, Vice Chair, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
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areas of expertise: MGMT, DICOM, EMR, IMS, INFM, IS, S/A
Howard Klaskin, MD, Radiologist, Waco Radiology, Waco, Texas
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area of expertise: MRI
Michael Knopp, MD, PhD, Chairman and Professor, Department of Radiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
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areas of expertise: CT, MGMT, IMS, MAMMO, MRI, MI, NM, ONC, WIFI
Elizabeth Krupinksi, PhD, Research Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Ariz.
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area of expertise: IS
Mike LaGrone, PACS Administrator, Florida Hospital Memorial Division, Ormond Beach, Fla.
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areas of expertise: DICOM, DISREC, IS, S/A, TELERAD, WIFI
Steve Langer, PhD, Associate Professor of Diagnostic Physics and Imaging Informatics, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minn.
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areas of expertise: IS, S/A
Darryl Leonardt, CIO, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, Ark.
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area of expertise: IS
James Lynch, Director of Clinical Information Systems, Integris Health, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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areas of expertise: EMR, HAND, IS, WIFI
Mark Marquez, PACS Administrator, Huntsville Hospital, Huntsville, Ala.
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areas of expertise: ARC, CR, DICOM, EMR, IMS, TELERAD
Alvaro Martinez, MD, Chairman of Radiation Oncology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Mich.
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areas of expertise: 3D, MGMT, DR, ONC
Paul Nagy, PHD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, Md.
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areas of expertise: INFM, S/A, DISREC, IMS
Charles Passarelli, PACS Administrator, Sentara Health Systems, Norfolk, Va.
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area of expertise: IMS
Gino Picciano, MD, Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and
Chief Information Officer, Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ont., Canada
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area of expertise: IS
Bob Pickton, SVP, CIO, Baylor Health Systems, Dallas, Texas
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areas of expertise: ARC, IINFM, IS
Etta Pisano, MD, Professor of Radiology, Chief, Biomedical Engineering,
Breast Imaging, University of North Carolina, and principal
investigator, Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial, Chapel Hill, N.C.
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area of expertise: MAMMO
Stephen Pluhar, Radiology Systems Coordinator, Northern Nevada Medical Center, Sparks, Nev.
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area of expertise: IS
Michael Poon, MD, Chief of Cardiology, Cardiac CT, Cabrini Medical
Center and President-Elect of the Society for Cardiovascular CT, New
York, N.Y.
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areas of expertise: CT, CARDIO
James M. Provenzale, MD, Division Chief, Neuroradiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
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area of expertise: MRI
Osman Ratib, MD, PhD, Vice Chairman of the Department of Radiology, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif.
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areas of expertise: 3D, INFM, HAND, IS, S/A
Bruce Reiner, MD, Director of Radiology Research, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md.
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areas of expertise: INFM, IS, IMS
Douglas W. Ricci, Director, IT Systems, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
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areas of expertise: ARC, MGMT, DICOM, MAMMO, DR, EMR, IMS, IS, MRI, NM, S/A, TELERAD
Charlie Rice, Chief Information Officer, South Jersey Healthcare, Bridgeton, N.J.
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areas of expertise: EMR, INFM, IS, WIFI
Anne C. Roberts, MD, Professor of Radiology, Executive Vice Chair,
University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Chief of
Vascular and Interventional Radiology, UCSD Medical Center and Thornton
Hospital, San Diego, Calif.
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area of expertise: INTVRAD
Kenneth Rosenfield, MD, Director, Cardiac and Vascular Invasive Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
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areas of expertise: CARDIO, CCL
Geoffrey Rubin, MD, Chief of Cardiovascular Imaging, Medical Director,
3D Imaging, Associate Professor, Stanford University School of
Medicine, Stanford, Calif.
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areas of expertise: CARDIO, CCL, CT, ECHO
Philip Ruth, Director, Medical Imaging, Hardin Memorial Hospital, Elizabethtown, Ken.
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areas of expertise: CR, CT, MGMT, DR, MRI
U. Joseph Schoepf, MD, Director, CT Research and Development, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C.
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areas of expertise: 3D, CT
J. Anthony Seibert, PhD, Professor of Radiology, University of
California Davis Medical Center, Imaging Research Center, Sacramento,
Calif.
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area of expertise: MAMMO
J. Bayne Selby Jr, MD, Co-Director, Vascular/Interventional Radiology,
Professor, Department of Radiology, Division of Vascular/
Interventional Radiology, Medical University of South Carolina,
Charleston, S.C.
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areas of expertise: CT, INTVRAD
Michael Shen, MD, MS, FACC, Head, Cardiac Imaging, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Fla.
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areas of expertise: CT, MRI
Thomas R. Shook, Director of Imaging Services, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Mass.
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area of expertise: MGMT
Eliot Siegel, MD, Director of Radiology, VA Maryland Healthcare System, Baltimore, Md.
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areas of expertise: NM, RAD
Andy Steele, MD, Director of Medical Informatics, Denver Health and Hospital, Denver, Colo.
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area of expertise: IS
John Stewart, CEO, The Heart Center of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind.
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area of expertise: CARDIO
Cheryl Stillberger, RT(R), BS, MA, Director Imaging Services, Genesis Health Systems, Zanesville, Ohio.
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area of expertise: MGMT
Captain Jerry Thomas, RPH, Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md.
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area of expertise: MAMMO
Gary Wendt, MD, MBA, Associate Professor of Radiology and Vice Chair of
Informatics, University of Wisconsin Medical Center, Madison, Wis.
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area of expertise: IMS
Richard Whistine, PACS Administrator, St. Mary's Medical Center, Evansville, Ind.
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areas of expertise: IMS, RMI
Jonathan Wiener, MD, Director, MRI and Neuroradiology, Boca Raton Community Hospital, Boca Raton, Fla.
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areas of expertise: MRI, INFM
Richard Wiggins III, MD, Assistant Professor; Head and Neck
Neuroradiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City,
Utah
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areas of expertise: HAND, WIFI, MRI
Kathy Willison, RT(R) (M), Director of Research, Elizabeth Wende Breast Center, Rochester, N.Y.
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area of expertise: MAMMO
Martin Yaffe, PhD, Senior Scientist, Imaging Research Program,
Sunnybrook & Women's HSC and Professor, Departments of Medical
Biophysics and Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Canada
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area of expertise: MAMMO
David Yang, PHD, Associate Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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areas of expertise: MI, NM, ONC
David Yankelevitz, MD, Professor of Radiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Manhattan, N.Y.
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area of expertise: CAD
Elias Zerhouni, MD, Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
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area of expertise: MRI
Margarita Zuley, MD, Radiologist, Elizabeth Wende Breast Clinic, Rochester, N.Y.
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area of expertise: MAMMO
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